adjunct

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
  2. 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 […]
  3. Ellipsis of adjunct professor. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
    — 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.
  4. An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
  5. 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
  6. A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
  7. 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.
  8. 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).
  9. 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 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.
  10. Symploce. rhetoric
  11. One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.
动词 v.
  1. To work as an adjunct professor. informal,intransitive
    — 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Connected in a subordinate function.
    — Though that my death were adiunct to my Act, By heauen I would doe it.
  2. Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.

词形变化

adjuncts plural more adjunct comparative most adjunct superlative adjuncts present,singular,third-person adjuncting participle,present adjuncted participle,past adjuncted past

词汇关系

近义词
accessory accompaniment addition add-on adjunct affix annex apanage appendage appendix extra increase increment supplement
反义词
decrement remainder
上位词
quantity
下位词
acquisition attachment complement reinforcements rider sauce trappings embroidery decoration garnish ornament add-in plug-in snap-in
衍生词
adjuncthood adjunction adjunctive adjunct professor adjunct treatment numerary adjunct adjunctification adjunctly nonadjunct
相关词
predicate augmentation

词源

词源 1
From Latin adiunctus, perfect passive participle of adiungō (“join to”), from ad + iungō (“join”). Doublet of adjoint.
词源 2
From Latin adiunctus, perfect passive participle of adiungō (“join to”), from ad + iungō (“join”). Doublet of adjoint.
词源 3
From Latin adiunctus, perfect passive participle of adiungō (“join to”), from ad + iungō (“join”). Doublet of adjoint.
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