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adjunct

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈæd͡ʒ.ʌŋkt/
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  • Rhymes: -ædʒʌŋkt
  • Hyphenation: ad‧junct

Noun

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Examples (grammar)
  • I typed for a while.
  • chicken soup

adjunct (plural adjuncts)

  1. An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
    Synonyms: addition, supplement; see also Thesaurus:adjunct
  2. A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:associate, Thesaurus:attendant
    • 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:
      [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. (brewing) An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
  4. (dated, metaphysics) A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.
  5. (music) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
  6. (grammar) A dispensable phrase in a clause or sentence that modifies its meaning.
    Coordinate terms: attribute, predicate
    noun adjunct
    • 1981 April 4, Signe A. Dayhoff, “Sexist Language: You Become Your Label”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
      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.
  7. (palaeography) 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).
  8. (syntax, X-bar theory) A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
    • 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 177:
      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.
  9. (rhetoric) Symploce.
  10. (category theory) One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.

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Adjective

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adjunct (comparative more adjunct, superlative most adjunct)

  1. Connected in a subordinate function.
  2. Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.

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Verb

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adjunct (third-person singular simple present adjuncts, present participle adjuncting, simple past and past participle adjuncted)

  1. (intransitive, informal) To work as an adjunct professor.
    • 2015 November 24, Noah Davis, quoting Monica Brannon, “How Do You Make a Living, Visiting Professor?”, in Pacific Standard‎[1], Santa Barbara, C.A.: The Miller-McCune Center […], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-18:
      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.
    • 2017 April 15, Emily Jordan, “Let me be misunderstood: The final episode of HBO's "Girls" and how we really feel about Hannah Horvath”, in Salon.com‎[2], archived from the original on 2023-08-23:
      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.
    • 2020 July 7, Lydia Kiesling, “'To fail but still mostly be safe': Lynn Steger Strong wrestles with precarity and privilege”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎[3], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-09-28:
      In Want, out this month, Strong homes in on those themes. In this novel, her second, narrator Elizabeth is raising two small children with her husband, a carpenter, in New York City, while going through a bankruptcy and teaching low-income students at a charter school and adjuncting at a prestigious university.
    • 2022 July 26, Donte Kirby, quoting Tronster Hartley, “Want to break into tech? Software devs say to learn these coding languages”, in Technical.ly‎[4], archived from the original on 2022-12-09:
      I wish I had a cut and dry answer to this question. When I adjunct at the University of Baltimore, I get asked a similar question by my students every semester.
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Dutch

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Etymology

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From Middle Dutch adjoinct, from Latin adiunctus.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɑˈdjʏŋkt/, /ɑtˈjʏŋkt/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: ad‧junct
  • Rhymes: -ʏŋkt

Noun

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adjunct m (plural adjuncten)

  1. an adjunct, a subordinate person, esp. an attendant of a government official
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Descendants

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  • → Indonesian: ajun
  • → Javanese: ꦲꦗꦸꦤ꧀ (ajun), ꦲꦗꦸꦁ (ajung)

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Adjunkt or Latin adjunctus.

Adjective

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adjunct m or n (feminine singular adjunctă, masculine plural adjuncți, feminine and neuter plural adjuncte)

  1. deputy

Declension

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singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative 		indefinite adjunct adjunctă adjuncți adjuncte
definite adjunctul adjuncta adjuncții adjunctele
genitive-
dative 		indefinite adjunct adjuncte adjuncți adjuncte
definite adjunctului adjunctei adjuncților adjunctelor
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