avail

«avail» in Mova's school dictionary: use or help: «of no avail» means it did not help at all — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (no plural); verb (avails, availed, availing)

meaning for a pupil

1) (noun) Avail means use or help: «of no avail» means it did not help at all. tree →

2) (verb, formal) To avail is to be of use or to help someone. tree →

sense in the lessons

in tales, a plea, a fight or a plan that brings no use or help: it was of no avail.

examples

• All our shouting was of no avail. tree →
• The medicine did not avail him. tree →
• That will avail him little. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• Will thy riches avail, that are without stint, or all the forces of thy strength?
• Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.'

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «avail» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.