conjunction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈd͡ʒʌŋk.ʃn̩/
rhymes: -ʌŋkʃən
Forms: form: conjunctions
Etymology: From Old French conjonction, from Latin coniūnctiō (“joining”), from coniungere (“to join”).
Senses: examples: text: […] Dr. Minchin in return was quite sure that man was not a mere machine or a fortuitous conjunction of atoms; […]
ref: 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XVIII, in Middlemarch […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I:
text: About them all there is that sort of stiff quaint unreality, that conjunction of the grotesque, and even of a certain bourgeois snugness, with passionate contortion and horror, that is so characteristic of Gothic art.
ref: 1896, Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books:
synonyms: connection
union
glosses: The act of joining, or condition of being joined.
examples: text: A comma is placed between short members of compound sentences, connected by and, but, for, nor, or, because, whereas, that expressing purpose (so that, in order that), and other conjunctions.
ref: 1881, Alfred Ayres [pseudonym; Thomas Embly Osmun], The Verbalist:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word used to join other words, phrases, or clauses together into sentences. (The specific conjunction used shows how the two joined parts are related semantically.)
examples: text: […] the coexistence of one such phenomenon with another; or the succession of one such phenomenon to another: their conjunction, in short, so that where the one is found, we may calculate on finding both.
ref: 1843, John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, volume 1:
glosses: Cooccurrence; coincidence.
examples: text: The spectacular conjunction of Venus and Mars gave rise to a myriad of mythical interpretations.
ref: 2011, Starf*cker […] , Ev Cochrane, →ISBN, page 140:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
antonyms: opposition
hyponyms: grand conjunction
great conjunction
inferior conjunction
superior conjunction
topocentric conjunction
glosses: The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth.
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An aspect in which planets are in close proximity to one another.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
meronyms: conjunct
logical connective
coordinate_terms: disjunction
glosses: The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the ∧ ( and ) operator.
examples: text: Today there is a mountain called Ararat near the conjunction of the Turkish, Armenian, and Iranian borders.
ref: 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 47:
coordinate_terms: junction
juncture
confluence
glosses: A place where multiple things meet.
examples: text: Certaine Nations (and amongst others, the Mahometane) abhorre Conjunction with women great with childe.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 29, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
synonyms: word: aphrodisia
word: carnal knowledge
word: coitus
word: coition
word: commerce
word: commixtion
word: congress
word: conjunction
word: connection
word: consummation
word: conversation
word: copulation
word: coupling
word: intercourse
word: intimacy
word: intimate relations
word: intromission
word: joining
word: lovemaking
word: lustmaking
word: marital embrace
word: mating
word: mounting
raw_tags: for animals
word: pareunia
word: penetration
word: relations
word: sex
word: sexual congress
word: sexual intercourse
word: sexual relation
word: sexual union
word: swiving
word: union
word: the beast with two backs
word: the birds and the bees
word: boom-boom
word: chesterfield rugby
word: horizontal dancing
word: horizontal hula
word: horizontal jogging
word: horizontal mambo
word: horizontal refreshments
word: how's your father
word: love
word: Netflix and chill
word: physical love
word: roll in the hay
word: Ugandan affairs
word: Ugandan discussions
word: action
word: ass
word: bang
word: barney-mugging
word: beef injection
word: bonking
word: cuntfuck
word: fucking
word: frig
word: fucky-fucky
word: hot beef injection
word: hump
word: humpa humpa
word: jig-jig
word: jiggy-jiggy
word: lay
word: legover
word: meat injection
word: nookie
word: old hat
word: pipe
word: plow
word: plough
word: poon
word: poontang
word: punani
word: pussy
word: ride
word: root
word: rumpo
word: rumpy-pumpy
word: seeing-to
word: sexy time
word: sexy times
word: screw
word: screwing
word: shag
word: skin
word: snu snu
word: tang
word: trim
word: hanky-panky
word: funny business
word: making whoopee
word: jiggery-pokery
word: monkey business
word: fooling about
word: fooling around
word: playing around
glosses: Sexual intercourse.
Derived terms: conjunctional
conjunction fallacy
conjunctionless
coordinating conjunction
in conjunction with
misconjunction
subordinating conjunction
Related terms: conjugate
conjunctive → conjunctive normal form
disjunction