adjunct
Syllables: ad·junct/ˈæd͡ʒ.ʌŋkt/
adjunct noun: an appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity. Also the ellipsis of adjunct professor.
Noun
adjunct (plural adjuncts)
- 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.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC... - Learning is but an adiunct to our ſelfe,
And where we are, our Learning likewiſe is.c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- Synonyms:
- addition, supplement
- Lie here ye weedes that I diſdaine to weare,
- 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 […]c. 1635 (date written), Henry Wotton, “Of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex; and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham: Some Observations by Way of Parallel in the Time of Their Estates of Favour”, in...
- Synonyms:
- associate, business partner, cohort, colaborer /colabourer, collaborator, colleague, compeer, confrere, consociate, coworker /co-worker
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.1981 April 4, Signe A. Dayhoff, “Sexist Language: You Become Your Label”, in Gay Community News, page 9
- Synonyms:
- circumstant, circumstantial
- 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.
- 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...1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 177
- Symploce.
- One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.
Adjective
adjunct (comparative more adjunct, superlative most adjunct)
- Connected in a subordinate function.
- Though that my death were adiunct to my Act,
By heauen I would doe it.c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- Though that my death were adiunct to my Act,
- Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.
Verb
adjunct (third-person singular simple present adjuncts, present participle adjuncting, simple past and past participle adjuncted)
- To work as an adjunct professor.
- 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.2015 November 24, Noah Davis, quoting Monica Brannon, “How Do You Make a Living, Visiting Professor?”, in Pacific Standard, Santa Barbara, C.A.: The Miller-McCune Center […], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived...
- 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.2017 April 15, Emily Jordan, “Let me be misunderstood: The final episode of HBO's "Girls" and how we really feel about Hannah Horvath”, in Salon.com, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2023
Also used as
adjunct is also the ellipsis of adjunct professor.
adjunct meaning in Punjabi, Arabic and Indonesian
adjunct in Punjabi
- ਐਡਜੰਕਿਊਟਿੰਗ
adjunct in Arabic
- grammar: dispensable phrase
- فَضْلَة faḍla
adjunct in Indonesian
- grammar: dispensable phrase
- keterangan
Examples of adjunct in a sentence
- 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.1876, Eliza Bisbee Duffey, Our Behaviour: A Manual of Etiquette and Dress of the Best American Society, Philadelphia:
- 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.1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 177:
- When I adjunct at the University of Baltimore, I get asked a similar question by my students every semester.2022 July 26, Donte Kirby, quoting Tronster Hartley, “Want to break into tech? Software devs say to learn these coding languages”, in...
Synonyms of adjunct
- addition
- supplement
- associate
- business partner
- cohort
- colaborer /colabourer
- collaborator
- colleague
- compeer
- confrere
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Antonyms
Forms of adjunct
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | adjuncts |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more adjunct |
| superlative | most adjunct |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | adjuncts |
| present participle | adjuncting |
| past participle | adjuncted |
| past | adjuncted |
Origin of adjunct
From Latin adiunctus, perfect passive participle of adiungō (“join to”), from ad + iungō (“join”). Doublet of adjoint.
Words formed from adjunct
Phrases with adjunct
Questions about adjunct
- What does adjunct mean?
- Adjunct means an appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
- What is adjunct in Punjabi?
- Adjunct in Punjabi is ਐਡਜੰਕਿਊਟਿੰਗ. See Adjunct meaning in Punjabi.
- How do you use adjunct in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is adjunct?
- Adjunct can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
- How do you pronounce adjunct?
- Adjunct is pronounced /ˈæd͡ʒ.ʌŋkt/.
- What is the plural of adjunct?
- The plural of adjunct is adjuncts.
Words near adjunct in the dictionary
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