adjunct
/ˈæd͡ʒ.ʌŋkt/
Frequency: 3.30 in modern English
Meaning
noun
An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
noun
A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
noun
noun
An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
noun
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
noun
A phrase within a clause or sentence that is grammatically dispensable but not semantically so, modifying the meaning.
noun
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).
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "[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."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: *yewg-