Can you use the word aide to describe a document?

Answer 1

Probably not!

* The word aide means an assistant.

* An aide-de-camp (French, meaning camp asistant) is the military title for an officer acting as a confidential assistant to a person of high rank, or, in some countries it is the title (i.e. ADC) of a person of honor. However! An aide-mémoirecan even be an object that will remind you of something you must do.

Some people tie a knot in their handkerchief to remind them that they have to do something important. This is not always effective, because, whilst seeing the knotted handkerchief may remind them that they have to do something, it doesn't always help them remember precisely what they should be doing!

Examples of aides-mémoires

# shopping lists # notes of personal names (at parties) # writing down anything that you might forget, so that you can readily look at it and remind yourself (you could even write an aide-mémoire on the back of your hand!)

# speech notes (for a wedding speech etc) # notes of key points/facts/figures, to help when studying, or when revising for exams. # a script for a play, carried by an actor in case he forgets his lines! # a note of someone's address and details of how to get there, that you might need to refer to while you are trying to find the place # a written version of a sentence in a foreign language. that you have been practicing. You might wish to say it from memory, without notes. But just in case you forget, you'll have it written down and you can look at it and remind yourself of what to say.

# a few short notes of what to say or ask at a job interview, and reviewed some minutes before entering the interview room!