adjunct (noun)

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• adjunct — ► NOUN 1) an additional and supplementary part. 2) Grammar a word or phrase in a sentence other than the verb or predicate. ► ADJECTIVE ▪ connected in an auxiliary way. DERIVATIVES adjunctive adjective. ORIGIN from Latin adjungere adjoin …   English terms dictionary

• noun adjunct — noun a noun that modifies another noun and that is optional (that is, it can be removed without affecting the grammar of the sentence). For example, in the compound noun chicken soup , the noun adjunct chicken modifies the noun soup . Syn:… …   Wiktionary

• adjunct — UK US /ˈædʒʌŋkt/ noun [C] FORMAL ► something that is added or connected to a larger or more important thing: an adjunct to sth »Green, socially conscious concepts are not an adjunct to its main business, but a philosophy that works its way into… …   Financial and business terms

• adjunct professor — noun in some colleges and universities : a teacher ranking next below a professor * * * a professor employed by a college or university for a specific purpose or length of time and often part time. [1820 30] * * * adjunct professor, = associate… …   Useful english dictionary

• adjunct — noun a) An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity b) A person associated with another in a subordinate position …   Wiktionary

• adjunct — noun (C) 1 (+ to) something that is added or joined to something but is not part of it 2 technical an adverbial word or phrase that adds meaning to another part of a sentence, such as on Sunday in They arrived on Sunday …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• adjunct accusative — noun : objective complement …   Useful english dictionary

• Adjunct (grammar) — In linguistics, an adjunct is any word, phrase, or clause joined to another word or phrase to qualify or modify it. It could be of two kinds, adverbial , if it modifies a verb or verb phrase, or adnominal , if it modifies a noun or noun phrase.An …   Wikipedia

• Noun adjunct — In grammar, a noun adjunct or attributive noun or noun premodifier is a noun that modifies another noun and is optional meaning that it can be removed without changing the grammar of the sentence; it is a noun functioning as an adjective. For… …   Wikipedia

• adjunct — ad|junct1 [ ædʒʌŋkt ] noun count 1. ) something that is added to something else but is not essential to it 2. ) LINGUISTICS a word or phrase that adds information to a sentence. In I put the box on the table, on the table is an adjunct. adjunct… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• adjunct — {{11}}adjunct (adj.) 1590s, from L. adjunctus closely connected, joined, united, pp. of adjungere join to (see ADJOIN (Cf. adjoin)). Adjunct professor is 1826, American English. {{12}}adjunct (n.) 1580s, from L. adjunctus closely connected,… …   Etymology dictionary