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# helping

«helping» in Mova's school dictionary: **An amount of food served to one person at one time: a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a helping, helpings); verb form (help, helps, helped, helping); adjective (helping)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An amount of food served to one person at one time: a second helping of pudding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/helping/#m1)

2) Giving help: helping others is kind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/helping/#m2)

3) (phrase) «A helping hand» means some help. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/helping/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life «a second helping» means more food on your plate; in maths, helpings appear in sharing and fraction problems (8 helpings from 2 pizzas). In PSHE and stories, helping others is a key value. Phrases: a second helping, a helping hand, helping out, helping with.

### examples

- Can I have a second helping of lasagne, please? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/helping/#x1)
- Thanks for giving me a helping hand with the boxes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/helping/#x2)
- Helping at the food bank made me feel good. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/helping/#x3)
- Each helping of soup is 250 millilitres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/helping/#x4)
- If one cake makes 8 helpings, 3 cakes make 24 helpings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/helping/#x5)
- I'm helping Gran with her garden on Saturday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/helping/#x6)
- She took a small helping because she wasn't hungry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/helping/#x7)
- He thought only of helping the queen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/helping/#x8)

### note

Countable (a helping, two helpings) when it means a portion. In maths, «helpings» = equal portions: total ÷ size of each helping = number of helpings. Similar words: portion, serving. Do not confuse «helping» (a portion) with «helper» (a person who helps).

### In the corpora

- [Helping others cheat, or selling them copied work, is wrong too.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/11-school-rules-honesty-and-wrong-accusations/16/)
- [That is AI at its best: a patient pattern-spotter helping people do something they could not do alone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/2/)
- [Helping someone learn is different from doing their homework for them; you can explain, give tips and ask questions instead.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/28-who-you-are-honest-ai/15/)
- [What you learned is for helping people understand, check and learn, never for tricking or flattering them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/30-who-you-are-what-you-will-do/22/)
- [Vaccines given by injection protect pets by helping their bodies learn to fight illnesses.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «helping» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/helping/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.