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Adjunct
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- 1 Connected in a subordinate function.
"Though that my death were adiunct to my Act, By heauen I would doe it."
- 2 Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.
- 1 of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another wordnet
- 2 furnishing added support wordnet
- 1 An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
"Lie here ye weedes that I diſdaine to weare, This compleat armor, and this curtle-axe / Are adiuncts more beſeeming Tamburlaine."
- 2 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 wordnet
- 3 A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
"[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 […]"
- 4 something added to another thing but not an essential part of it wordnet
- 5 Ellipsis of adjunct professor. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
"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."
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- 6 a person who is an assistant or subordinate to another wordnet
- 7 An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
- 8 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
- 9 A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
- 10 A phrase within a clause or sentence that is grammatically dispensable but not semantically so, modifying the meaning.
"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."
- 11 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).
- 12 A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
"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."
- 13 Symploce. rhetoric
- 14 One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.
- 1 To work as an adjunct professor. informal, intransitive
"I also nannied through the first part of graduate school. I had friends who bartended or worked at a wine store and also adjuncted. A lot of people would package these jobs together."
Etymology
From Latin adiunctus, perfect passive participle of adiungō (“join to”), from ad + iungō (“join”). Doublet of adjoint.
From Latin adiunctus, perfect passive participle of adiungō (“join to”), from ad + iungō (“join”). Doublet of adjoint.
From Latin adiunctus, perfect passive participle of adiungō (“join to”), from ad + iungō (“join”). Doublet of adjoint.
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