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attachment
English
Etymology
From French attachement, equivalent to attach +? -ment.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??tæt?m?nt/
Noun
attachment (countable and uncountable, plural attachments)
- The act or process of (physically or figuratively) attaching.
- A strong bonding with or fondness for someone or something.
- I have such an attachment towards my fiancé!
- A dependence, especially a strong one.
- A device attached to a piece of equipment or a tool.
- The means by which something is physically attached.
- (computing) A file sent along with an email.
- (law) Taking a person's property to satisfy a court-ordered debt.
- attachment of earnings
- (meteorology) The act or process by which any (downward) leader connects to any available (upward) streamer in a lightning flash.
- 2009, Jakke Mäkelä, Eero Karvinen, Niko Porjo, Antti Mäkelä and Tapio Tuomi, Attachment of Natural Lightning Flashes to Trees: Preliminary Statistical Characteristics, published in the Journal of Lightning Research, volume 1
Derived terms
- attachment disorder
Translations
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English attachment.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??t?t?m?nt/, /??t?t?m?nt/
- Hyphenation: at?tach?ment
Noun
attachment m or n (plural attachments)
- attachment (to an email)
- Synonym: bijlage
- (psychology) attachment, personal bonding
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auxiliary
English
Etymology
From Latin auxili?rius (“assistant, ally”), equiv. to auxili?ris (“helping, aiding”), from auxilium (“help, aid”), from aug?re (“to increase”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??k?s?lj??i/, /??k?s?li.??i/, /??k?s?l??i/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???z?lj??i/, /???z?li??i/, /???z?l??i/
- (cot-caught merged) IPA(key): /???z?lj??i/, /???z?li??i/, /???z?l??i/
- Rhymes: -?li??i
- Rhymes: -?li???i
Adjective
auxiliary (not comparable)
- Helping; giving assistance or support.
- auxiliary troops
- Synonyms: ancillary, accessory
- Supplementary or subsidiary.
- Held in reserve for exceptional circumstances.
- (nautical) Of a ship, having both sails and an engine.
- (grammar) Relating to an auxiliary verb.
Synonyms
- (supplementary): accessory
- (having sails and engine): motorsailer
Translations
Noun
auxiliary (plural auxiliaries)
- A person or group that acts in an auxiliary manner.
- A sailing vessel equipped with an engine.
- (grammar) An auxiliary verb.
- The three traditionally recognized Non-modal Auxiliaries are the per-
fective Auxiliary have, the progressive Auxiliary be, and the passive Auxiliary
be. Perfective have is so-called because it marks the completion (hence, perfec-
tion) of an action; it is followed by a VP headed by a perfective -n participle, as
in:
(121) The referee has [VP shown him the red card]
- The three traditionally recognized Non-modal Auxiliaries are the per-
- A marching band colorguard.
Translations
Related terms
- auction
- auctioneer
- augment
- augmentation
See also
- axillary
Further reading
- auxiliary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- auxiliary in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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