Accessory
[ək'ses(ə)rɪ] or [ək'sɛsəri]
Definition
(noun.) a supplementary component that improves capability.
(noun.) clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing.
(noun.) someone who helps another person commit a crime.
(adj.) furnishing added support; 'an ancillary pump'; 'an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism'; 'The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other' .
Edited by Edith--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music.
(n.) That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate.
(n.) Same as Accessary, n.
(n.) Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts.
Inputed by Juana
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Assisting, ACCESSARY.
n. [1]. Confederate, ACCESSARY.[2]. Accompaniment, attendant, concomitant.
Typist: Nathaniel
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Accomplice, associate, abettor, ally, colleague, confederate, helper
ANT:Foe, antagonist, adversary, rival
Inputed by Joanna
Definition
adj. additional: contributing to: aiding: (law) participating in a crime as in reset of theft and the like.—n. anything additional: one who aids or gives countenance to a crime.—adj. Accessōr′ial relating to an accessory.—adv. Ac′cessorily in the manner of an accessory: by subordinate means.
Editor: Pratt
Examples
- The disproportion would have been too great between the value of the accessory and that of the principal. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- If I fall,' said Mr. Winkle, 'or if the doctor falls, you, my dear friend, will be tried as an accessory before the fact. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- This globe is not necessary for the experiment, but is only an accessory to impose upon the imagination. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The swim-bladder has, also, been worked in as an accessory to the auditory organs of certain fishes. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Eliza's flight--an unprecedented event on the place--was also a great accessory in stimulating the general excitement. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- At first and for long ages it was the interest and the secret of only a few people in a special class, a mere accessory to the record of pictures. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It differs from anger (Greek), this latter term having no accessory notion of righteous indignation. Plato. The Republic.
- He's getting past the age for caring for such things, either as principal or accessory. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Because one does not like to act as accessory to the commission of a piece of pure folly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- You were not an accessory, therefore, and she came, so far as I can read the evidence, without your knowledge to rob you. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- My opinion of those accessories was not favorable. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- These men are engaged in making new machinery (designed in the company shops), tools, jigs, fixtures and other machine shop accessories, and repairing those in use. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Typed by Chauncey