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Auxiliary

Auxiliary Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Auxiliary?
[n] someone who acts as assistant
[adj] functioning in a subsidiary or supporting capacity; "the main library and its auxiliary branches" [adj] relating to something that is added but is not essential; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxilliary to each other" Synonyms | Synonyms for Auxiliary: accessory | adjunct | adjuvant | aide | ancillary | appurtenant | secondary | subsidiary | supplemental | supplementary | supportive Related Terms | Find terms related to Auxiliary: abetting | accessory | accident | accidental | acolyte | addendum | addition | additional | adjunct | adjutant | adjuvant | adscititious | adventitious | agent | aid | aide | aide-de-camp | aider | aiding | alter ego | ancillary | another | appendage | appurtenance | appurtenant | ascititious | assistance | assistant | assisting | attendant | auxiliary verb | backing | best man | casual | circumstantial | coadjutant | coadjutor | coadjutress | coadjutrix | collateral | complementary | contingency | contingent | contributory | copula | defective verb | deponent verb | deputy | executive officer | extra | farther | finite verb | fortuitous | fostering | fresh | further | girl Friday | happenstance | help | helper | helpful | helping | helpmate | helpmeet | impersonal verb | incidental | inessential | infinitive | instrumental | intransitive | intransitive verb | lieutenant | linking verb | man Friday | mere chance | ministerial | ministering | ministrant | modal auxiliary | more | neuter verb | new | nonessential | not-self | nurtural | nutricial | other | paranymph | paraprofessional | peripheral | plus | reserve | second | secondary | servant | serving | sideman | spare | subordinate | subservient | subsidiary | superadded | superaddition | superfluous | supernumerary | supervenient | supplement | supplemental | supplementary | support | supporter | supporting | supporting actor | supporting instrumentalist | supportive | surplus | transitive | tributary | ulterior | unessential | upholding | verb | verb phrase | verbal See Also | assistant | help | helper | nurse's aide | nursing aide | supporter Auxiliary In Webster's Dictionary \Aux*il"ia*ry\ (?; 106), a. [L. auxiliarius, fr.
auxilium help, aid, fr. augere to increase.]
Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting;
subsidiary; as auxiliary troops.
{Auxiliary scales} (Mus.), the scales of relative or
attendant keys. See under {Attendant}, a.
{Auxiliary verbs} (Gram.). See {Auxiliary}, n., 3.
\Aux*il"ia*ry\, n.; pl. {Auxiliaries}. 1. A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise. 2. (Mil.) pl. Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force. 3. (Gram.) A verb which helps to form the voices, modes, and tenses of other verbs; -- called, also, an auxiliary verb; as, have, be, may, can, do, must, shall, and will, in English; [^e]tre and avoir, in French; avere and essere, in Italian; estar and haber, in Spanish. 4. (Math.) A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formul[ae]. --Math. Dict. |
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