adjunct
Connected in a subordinate function.
Adjective
- 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 […]...
- Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.
Origin
From Latin adiunctus, perfect passive participle of adiungō (“join to”), from ad + iungō (“join”). Doublet of adjoint.
Forms
Derived
Noun
- 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...
- 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, &...
- 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...
Synonyms: addition supplement
- 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 […]...
Synonyms: adjunct associate business partner cohort colaborer /colabourer collaborator colleague compeer confrere consociate coworker /co-worker fellow jobmate workfellow workmate assistant attendant
- Ellipsis of adjunct professor.
- 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. - 2014 March 14,...
- 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...
Synonyms: circumstant circumstantial
Related: head complement
- 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...
- Symploce.
- One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.
Forms
Synonyms
accessory accompaniment addition add-on adjunct affix annex apanage appendage appendix extra increase increment supplement
Antonyms
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
acquisition attachment complement reinforcements rider sauce trappings embroidery decoration garnish ornament add-in plug-in snap-in
Related
Derived
adjuncthood adjunction adjunctive adjunct professor adjunct treatment numerary adjunct
Verb
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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...