Meaning of adjunct | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
2. An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity
3. A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
4. A subordinate element added to another entity:accessory, appendage, appurtenance, attachment, supplement.
5. A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague
6. Ellipsis of adjunct professor.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
7. adjunto-a, unido-a, asociado-a, arrimado-a.
8. Ellipsis of adjunct professor
9. An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
10. Something attached to another in a dependent or subordinate position. See Synonyms at attachment.
11. An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient
12. A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.
    dated
13. A person associated with another in a subordinate or auxiliary capacity.
14. A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind
15. A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
16. Grammar A clause or phrase added to a sentence that, while not essential to the sentence's structure, amplifies its meaning, such as for several hours in We waited for several hours.
    Grammar
17. A phrase within a clause or sentence that is grammatically dispensable but not semantically so, modifying the meaning.
18. Logic A nonessential attribute of a thing.
    Logic
19. Added or connected in a subordinate or auxiliary capacity: an adjunct clause.
20. A graphic element that modifies another, such as (in Linear B script) a small syllabogram that is attached to a logogram as an abbreviation of an adjective that modifies that logogram (rather than as a phonetic complement that disambiguates the logogram).
21. Attached to a faculty or staff in a temporary or auxiliary capacity: an adjunct professor of history.
22. A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
23. something incidental or not essential that is added to something else
24. Symploce.
    rhetoric
25. a person who is subordinate to another
26. One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.

Equivalents

Examples

“Lie here ye weedes that I diſdaine to weare, This compleat armor, and this curtle-axe / Are adiuncts more beſeeming Tamburlaine.”

“Learning is but an adiunct to our ſelfe, And where we are, our Learning likewiſe is.”

“[H]e made him the aſſociate of his Heir apparant, together vvith the nevv Lord Cottington (as an adjunct of ſingular experience and truſt) in forraine travailes, and in a buſineſſe of Love, and of no equall hazzard […]”

“I've been given the chance to do this through my own department and through university programmes that don't have tenure-track lines and are therefore more likely to seek assistance from adjuncts.”

“When a female enters the profession, she is generally not referred to as doctor but as a lady doctor or woman doctor. The use of "feminizing" adjuncts designates a deviation from the norm, doctor, and does not carry the weight of the term unmodified.”

“We can see from (34) that Determiners are sisters of N-bar and daughters of N-double-bar; Adjuncts are both sisters and daughters of N-bar; and Complements are sisters of N and daughters of N-bar. This means that Adjuncts resemble Complements in that both are daughters of N-bar; but they differ from Complements in that Adjuncts are sisters of N-bar, whereas Complements are sisters of N. Likewise, it means that Adjuncts resemble Determiners in that both are sisters of N-bar, but they differ from Determiners in that Adjuncts are daughters of N-bar, whereas Determiners are daughters of N-double-bar.”

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