adjunct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæd͡ʒ.ʌŋkt/
rhymes: -ædʒʌŋkt
Forms: form: adjuncts
Etymology: From Latin adiunctus, perfect passive participle of adiungō (“join to”), from ad + iungō (“join”). Doublet of adjoint.
Senses: examples: text: Lie here ye weedes that I diſdaine to weare,
This compleat armor, and this curtle-axe / Are adiuncts more beſeeming Tamburlaine.
ref: 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; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
text: Learning is but an adiunct to our ſelfe,
And where we are, our Learning likewiſe is.
ref: 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] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 135:
synonyms: addition
supplement
glosses: An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
examples: text: [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 […]
ref: 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 Reliquiæ Wottonianæ. Or, A Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems; […], London: […] Thomas Maxey, for R[ichard] Marriot, G[abriel] Bedel, and T[imothy] Garthwait, published 1651, →OCLC, page 5:
synonyms: word: adjunct
word: associate
word: business partner
word: cohort
word: colaborer
word: colabourer
word: collaborator
word: colleague
word: compeer
word: confrere
word: consociate
word: coworker
word: co-worker
word: fellow
word: workfellow
word: workmate
word: assistant
word: attendant
glosses: A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2014 March 14, Jacqueline Taylor, “Life without tenure: how I've found fulfilment in US academia”, in The Guardian:
topics: education
glosses: Ellipsis of adjunct professor.
topics: beverages
brewing
business
food
lifestyle
manufacturing
glosses: An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
qualifier: metaphysics
glosses: A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1981 April 4, Signe A. Dayhoff, “Sexist Language: You Become Your Label”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: circumstant
circumstantial
related: word: head
word: complement
glosses: A phrase within a clause or sentence that is grammatically dispensable but not semantically so, modifying the meaning.
topics: biology
epigraphy
geography
history
human-sciences
literature
media
natural-sciences
palaeography
paleogeography
paleography
paleontology
publishing
sciences
glosses: 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).
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 177:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
syntax
qualifier: X-bar theory
glosses: A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
glosses: Symploce.
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.
Synonyms: word: accessory
word: accompaniment
word: addition
word: add-on
word: adjunct
word: affix
word: annex
word: apanage
word: appendage
word: appendix
word: extra
word: increase
word: increment
word: supplement
Hypernyms: word: quantity
Hyponyms: word: acquisition
word: attachment
word: complement
word: reinforcements
word: rider
word: sauce
word: trappings
word: embroidery
word: decoration
word: garnish
word: ornament
word: add-in
word: plug-in
word: snap-in
Derived terms: adjuncthood
adjunction
adjunctive
adjunct professor
adjunct treatment
numerary adjunct
Related terms: topics: grammar
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
english: often holonymous
translation: often holonymous
word: predicate
word: augmentation