Adjunct
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
adjunct
adj 1: furnishing added support; "an ancillary pump"; "an
adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and
emotions are auxiliary to each other" [syn: {accessory},
{adjunct}, {ancillary}, {adjuvant}, {appurtenant},
{auxiliary}]
2: of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another
[syn: {adjunct}, {assistant}]
n 1: something added to another thing but not an essential part
of it
2: a person who is an assistant or subordinate to another
3: a construction that can be used to extend the meaning of a
word or phrase but is not one of the main constituents of a
sentence
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Adjunct \Ad"junct`\, n.
1. Something joined or added to another thing, but not
essentially a part of it.
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Learning is but an adjunct to our self. --Shak.
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2. A person joined to another in some duty or service; a
colleague; an associate. --Wotton.
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3. (Gram.) A word or words added to quality or amplify the
force of other words; as, the History of the American
Revolution, where the words in italics are the adjunct or
adjuncts of "History."
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4. (Metaph.) A quality or property of the body or the mind,
whether natural or acquired; as, color, in the body,
judgment in the mind.
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5. (Mus.) A key or scale closely related to another as
principal; a relative or attendant key. [R.] See
{Attendant keys}, under {Attendant}, a.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
194 Moby Thesaurus words for "adjunct":
accession, accessory, accident, accidental, accord, accretion,
addendum, addition, adjunction, adornment, affairs, affiliation,
affinity, affix, affixation, agglutination, aggrandizement,
alliance, ally, ampliation, amplification, annexation, appanage,
appendage, appendix, approximation, appurtenance, arrangement,
aspect, assemblage, associate, association, attachment, attendant,
augmentation, auxiliary, bedfellow, bond, broadening, brother,
brother-in-arms, circumstance, closeness, coadjutor, cohort,
collateral, colleague, color, color patterns, combination,
companion, compatriot, compeer, component, comrade, concomitant,
confederate, confrere, connectedness, connection, consociate,
consort, constituent, contents, contiguity, contingency,
contingent, contrariety, corollary, crescendo, crony,
cross section, dealings, decor, decoration, deduction, deployment,
detachment, detail, disjunction, dispersion, division, dole,
elaboration, element, embellishment, emblazonment, emblazonry,
embroidery, enlargement, expansion, extension, extra, factor,
fanning out, feature, fellow, fellow member, filiation, fixings,
fixture, flare, flourish, flower arrangement, fraction,
furniture arrangement, garnish, garnishment, garniture,
happenstance, hiking, homology, illumination, incidental, increase,
inessential, ingredient, installment, integrant, intercourse,
intimacy, item, joining, junction, juxtaposition, liaison, link,
linkage, linking, magnification, makings, mere chance,
mutual attraction, nearness, nonessential, not-self, ornament,
ornamentation, other, parcel, part, part and parcel, particular,
percentage, portion, prefixation, propinquity, proximity, quadrant,
quarter, quota, raising, random sample, rapport, reinforcement,
relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, remainder, sample,
sampling, secondary, section, sector, segment, share, similarity,
specialty, splay, spread, spreading, subdivision, subgroup,
subsidiary, subspecies, suffixation, superaddition, superfetation,
superjunction, superposition, supplement, supplementation,
sympathy, tie, tie-in, trim, trimming, unessential, union, uniting,
upping, widening, window dressing
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