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The game is No. 1. You are an adjunct to the game. In a studio, there is no game. You are the star. That's why you are there. For the game, you can't go away from the game and beat your chest. People are there to watch the game. You are there to supplement, not to override or overwhelm.
Al Michaels

Meaning of "adjunct" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ADJUNCT

From Latin adjunctus, past participle of adjungere to adjoin.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ADJUNCT

adjunct  [ˈædʒʌŋkt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ADJUNCT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Adjunct can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ADJUNCT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of adjunct in the English dictionary

The first definition of adjunct in the dictionary is something incidental or not essential that is added to something else. Other definition of adjunct is a person who is subordinate to another. Adjunct is also part of a sentence other than the subject or the predicate.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ADJUNCT


banked
bæŋkt
cinct
sɪŋkt
conjunct
kənˈdʒʌŋkt
defunct
dɪˈfʌŋkt
disjunct
dɪsˈdʒʌŋkt
distinct
dɪˈstɪŋkt
expunct
ɪkˈspʌŋkt
extinct
ɪkˈstɪŋkt
indistinct
ˌɪndɪˈstɪŋkt
injunct
ɪnˈdʒʌŋkt
instinct
ˈɪnstɪŋkt
precinct
ˈpriːsɪŋkt
procinct
prəʊˈsɪŋkt
sacrosanct
ˈsækrəʊˌsæŋkt
succinct
səkˈsɪŋkt
tinct
tɪŋkt
top-ranked
ˌtɒpˈræŋkt
unbanked
ʌnˈbæŋkt
unranked
ʌnˈræŋkt
zonked
zɒŋkt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ADJUNCT

adjudge
adjudgement
adjudgment
adjudicate
adjudication
adjudicative
adjudicator
adjudicatory
adjunction
adjunctive
adjunctively
adjunctly
adjuration
adjuratory
adjure
adjurer
adjuror
adjust
adjustability
adjustable

WORDS THAT END LIKE ADJUNCT

depeinct
discinct
gut instinct
herd instinct
homing instinct
killer instinct
life instinct
maternal instinct
pedestrian precinct
shopping precinct
survival instinct
unextinct
voting precinct

Synonyms and antonyms of adjunct in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ADJUNCT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «adjunct» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of adjunct

Translation of «adjunct» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ADJUNCT

Find out the translation of adjunct to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of adjunct from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «adjunct» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

兼职
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

complemento
570 millions of speakers

English

adjunct
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सहायक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مساعد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

адъюнкт-
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

adjunto
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উপরি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

adjoint
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

tambahan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Zusatz
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

付属物
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

보조
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Adjunct
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vật phụ thuộc
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சேர்ப்புக்கு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अनुक्रमे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ilave
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

aggiunta
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

adiunkt
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ад´юнкт-
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

adjuvant
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συμπλήρωμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

toevoegsel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

komplement
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

medhjelper
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of adjunct

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ADJUNCT»

The term «adjunct» is very widely used and occupies the 22.454 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of adjunct
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ADJUNCT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «adjunct» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «adjunct» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about adjunct

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5 QUOTES WITH «ADJUNCT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word adjunct.
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Derek Bok
Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important courses such as expository writing and foreign languages are frequently taught by untrained graduate students and underpaid adjunct teachers.
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Albert Claude
Man has now become an adjunct to perfect and carry forward these conquests.
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Al Michaels
The game is No. 1. You are an adjunct to the game. In a studio, there is no game. You are the star. That's why you are there. For the game, you can't go away from the game and beat your chest. People are there to watch the game. You are there to supplement, not to override or overwhelm.
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Gunther Schuller
The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their first debut on a recording. These are all things that big record companies would never touch because there is no money in it!
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Robert Stack
I think voiceover is an adjunct that actors have picked up that have given us some security.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ADJUNCT»

Discover the use of adjunct in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to adjunct and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Adjunct Adverbials in English
In this original study, Hilde Hasselgård discusses the use of adverbials in English, through examining examples found in everyday texts.
Hilde Hasselgård, 2010
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EMDR Therapy and Adjunct Approaches with Children: Complex ...
This volume is a welcome and excellent resource for all clinicians working with severely traumatized children.
Ana M. Gomez, 2013
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Academic Sharecroppers: Exploitation of Adjunct Faculty and ...
This is a nonfiction book which addresses the exploitation of adjunct faculty and the higher education system.
Wendell Fountain, 2005
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Best Practices for Supporting Adjunct Faculty
Showcases proven initiatives at a variety of institutional types that help achieve the needs of adjunct instructors, while increasing their effectiveness within institutions' existing delivery systems.
Richard E. Lyons, 2007
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Factors Influencing Adjunct Faculty Participation in Online ...
Distance education has become an integral component in most postsecondary institutions in the United States.
Lorelei Schroeder, 2008
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The adjunct professor's guide to success: surviving and ...
The book provides invaluable aids such as an orientation checklist, model course syllabi, exam construction exercises, and related tools which enable the adjunct professor to be successful in their very first teaching assignment.
Richard E. Lyons, Marcella L. Kysilka, George Pawlas, 1999
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Job Satisfaction of Adjunct Faculty Serving in the Online ...
The results of the study found that in general, all faculty groups who taught in the online environment were satisfied with the work itself, supervision, staff, and the job in general.
Anita Gregory Satterlee, 2008
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The adjunct faculty handbook
Complete with checklists, sample syllabi, evaluation forms and case studies, this handbook provides administrators and full- and part-time faculty with a much-needed, practical resource for helping adjuncts teach as effectively as possible.
Virginia Bianco-Mathis, Neal Chalofsky, 1996
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Faculty Development Activities for New Adjunct Faculty: A ...
Four administrators and 16 adjunct faculty from four higher education institutions located in the Midwest participated in surveys and interviews.
Helen Bojarczyk, 2008
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Practice of Mammography: Pathology - Technique - ...
The. Practice. of. Mammography. Pathology - Technique - Interpretation - Adjunct Modalities Daniel J.Dronkers, MD, Radiologist Jan H. C. L Hendriks, MD, Radiologist Roland Holland, MD, Professor of Pathology Gerd Rosenbusch, MD,  ...
Daniel J. Dronkers, J. H. C. L. Hendriks, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ADJUNCT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term adjunct is used in the context of the following news items.
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Union County College responds to adjunct complaints
While it is becoming more common for both two-year colleges and four-year universities to rely on adjunct educators to augment a shrinking ... «Union News Daily, Jul 15»
2
Cereal Mashup
To perform a cereal mash, you'll need your unmalted adjunct and some two-row or six-row barley malt. Essentially, you'll pre-cook the adjuncts ... «Craft Beer & Brewing, Jul 15»
3
Shedding new light on how to disinfect water
Rowan, who is also adjunct professor of medicine at NUI Galway, started as a microbiologist but was also involved in developing novel ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
4
James Dunn, Baptist champion of religious freedom, dies at 83
... on display during his 16 years as an adjunct professor of Christianity and public policy at the Wake Forest University School of Divinity. «Winston-Salem Journal, Jul 15»
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Soursop – an adjunct to chemotherapy from tropics | The Indian …
Soursop – an adjunct to chemotherapy from tropics. Prickly fruit contains actogenins that scientists say demonstrates selective toxicity to tumour ... «The Indian Express, Jul 15»
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As a CUNY adjunct I'll make less over my career than my coworker …
Like over 75% of professors in America, I am an adjunct, or, in corporate-speak, “contingent” or “part-time” faculty. I have been teaching in the ... «Quartz, Jul 15»
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UC Clermont will hold adjunct faculty recruiting open house
UC Clermont College will hold an Adjunct Faculty Recruiting Open House on Wednesday, July 15 from 6-8 p.m. in the Snyder Building near the ... «The Clermont Sun, Jul 15»
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Chapman adjunct professor, producer Julie Kirkham dies at 61
An adjunct professor for Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, Kirkham had been teaching screenwriting classes since ... «OCRegister, Jun 15»
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SLCC Hosting Adjunct Hiring Fairs in July
South Louisiana Community College is looking for adjunct instructors to teach this Fall and is hosting two hiring fairs in July. The first will be held Wednesday, ... «KATC Lafayette News, Jun 15»
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Adjunct Spanish Instructor – Aquinas College (Nashville, TN)
Adjunct Spanish Instructor – Aquinas College (Nashville, TN). ADJUNCT SPANISH INSTRUCTOR Education: University/College, PT Employee Aquinas College ... «DFW Catholic, Jun 15»

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