adjunctnoun/ˈæd͡ʒ.ʌŋkt/

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  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.
  • Learning is but an adiunct to our ſelfe, And where we are, our Learning likewiſe is.
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  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 […]
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  beveragesbrewingbusinessAn unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.

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  datedA quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.

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  entertainmentlifestylemusicA key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.

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  grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsA 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.
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  biologyepigraphygeographyA 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).

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  human-scienceslinguisticssciencesA 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.

adjunctadj/ˈæd͡ʒ.ʌŋkt/

• 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.

adjunctverb/ˈæd͡ʒ.ʌŋkt/

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  informalTo 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.
  • 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.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• adjunct professor