If you help someone, you make it easier for them to do something, for example by doing part of the work for them or by giving them advice or money.

If you say that something helps, you mean that it makes something easier to do or get, or that it improves a situation to some extent.

If you help someone go somewhere or move in some way, you give them support so that they can move more easily.

If you help yourself, you try to get yourself out of a difficult situation rather than accept it and think you can do nothing to change it.

If you say that someone or something has been a help or has been some help, you mean that they have helped you to solve a problem.

Help is action taken to rescue a person who is in danger. You shout 'help!' when you are in danger in order to attract someone's attention so that they can come and rescue you.

In computing, help, or the help menu, is a file that gives you information and advice, for example about how to use a particular program.

If you help yourself to something, you serve yourself or you take it for yourself. If someone tells you to help yourself, they are telling you politely to serve yourself anything you want or to take anything you want.

If someone helps themselves to something, they steal it.

If you can't help the way you feel or behave, you cannot control it or stop it happening. You can also say that you can't help yourself .

If you say you can't help thinking something, you are expressing your opinion in an indirect way, often because you think it seems rude.

If someone or something is of help, they make a situation easier or better.