adjunct — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.

   Sinonimi

   additionsupplement

   Esempi

   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.

   Altri esempi (1)

   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.

2. A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (1)

   [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 […]

3. An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.

4. A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.

   Uso

   • datato

5. A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.

6. A phrase within a clause or sentence that is grammatically dispensable but not semantically so, modifying the meaning.

   Sinonimi

   circumstantcircumstantial

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (1)

   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.

7. 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).

8. A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (1)

   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.

9. Symploce.

   Uso

   • rhetoric

10. One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.

Aggettivo

1. Connected in a subordinate function.

   Esempi

   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.

Verbo

1. To work as an adjunct professor.

   Uso

   • informale
   • intransitivo

   Parole correlate

   adjuncting

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (3)

   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.

Aggettivo

1. furnishing added support

   Sinonimi

   accessoryancillaryadjuvantappurtenantauxiliary

   Esempi

   an ancillary pump

   an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism

   Altri esempi (1)

   The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other

2. of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another

   Sinonimi

   assistant

Sostantivo

1. something added to another thing but not an essential part of it

   Termini più generali

   inessentialnonessential

2. a person who is an assistant or subordinate to another

   Termini più generali

   associate

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

   Termini più generali

   constructiongrammatical constructionexpression