Assistant and Hand

Assistant

Assistant noun - A person who helps a more skilled person.

Usage example: the chief assistant to the director

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Hand and assistant are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hand" instead a noun "Assistant".

Nearby Words: assist, assistance, assisting

Hand noun - One who works for another for wages or a salary.

Usage example: the restaurant always hires several more hands for the busy summer season

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Assistant and hand are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Assistant" instead a noun "Hand".

Nearby Words: handle, handy, handed, handful, handhold

human	human assistant	human hand
old	old assistant	old hand
good	good assistant	good hand
best	best assistant	best hand
Other adjectives: short, current, actual, little, bad, deformed, main, new, possible, last.

Intercourse with You: In "Dinner Party" Jan plays a song by her old assistant which goes "You took me by the hand/Made me a man/That one night, you made everything alright".

Source: Series / The Office (US)
Face Palm: Oscar's assistant Frank does one when May, Oscar's new female assistant for his show, completely misses her cue to raise her hand when he asks for a volunteer from the audience.

Source: Film / Oz: The Great and Powerful
Stefanik wrestles with the man and beats him, taking the gun in the process, but declines to shoot the man, instead deliberately smearing his opponent's hand over the infected spot on his dead assistant's face, so that he'll dissolve slowly from his hand up.

Source: Film / Agent for H.A.R.M.

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