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/ˈæd͡ʒ.ʌŋkt/
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ˈædʒ.ʌŋkt
Noun
An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
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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.
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A boot-stand, on which all the boots and shoes should be arranged in regular order, with boot-jacks and boot-hooks, is a necessary adjunct to the gentleman's dressing-room.
A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
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[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 […]
An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.
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A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
A phrase within a clause or sentence that is grammatically dispensable but not semantically so, modifying the meaning.
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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.
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).
A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
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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.
Symploce.
Usage- rhetoric
One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.
Adjective
Connected in a subordinate function.
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Though that my death were adiunct to my Act, By heauen I would doe it.
Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.
Verb
To work as an adjunct professor.
Usage- Informal
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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.
A sudden fantasy emerges of Adam adjuncting at Hannah's college, a sweet Mr. Mom to Paul-Louis' (Riz Ahmed) baby while Hannah becomes a professor slash internet celeb -- but there I go writing fanfiction.
In Want, out this month, Strong homes in on those themes. In this novel, her second, narrator Elizabeth is raising two small children with her husband, a carpenter, in New York City, while going through a bankruptcy and teaching low-income students at a charter school and adjuncting at a prestigious university.
I wish I had a cut and dry answer to this question. When I adjunct at the University of Baltimore, I get asked a similar question by my students every semester.
Adjective
furnishing added support
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an ancillary pump
an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism
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The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other
of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another
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Noun
something added to another thing but not an essential part of it
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a person who is an assistant or subordinate to another
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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
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