Additional
[ə'dɪʃ(ə)n(ə)l] or [ə'dɪʃənl]
Definition
(a.) Added; supplemental; in the way of an addition.
(n.) Something added.
Edited by Ethelred
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Superadded, adscititious, supplemental, supplementary, extra, more.
Typist: Weldon
Examples
- She should try to get additional subscriptions, and to form a fund; but first she must consult the clergy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Many of these are quite large, and at least one-third of them require one additional helper, thus adding, say, 33,000 employees to the number already mentioned. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I have an additional reason for seeing you tonight besides love of you. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- One early station in New York for arc lighting was an old soap-works whose well-soaked floors did not need much additional grease to render them choice fuel for the inevitable flames. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- From this beginning cutters gradually added additional facets to increase the brilliancy until there were thirty-four in all. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- My next proceeding was to gain as much additional evidence as I could procure from other people without exciting suspicion. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- They are put together with a double-lapped spiral seam to give expansion-resisting qualities, and as an additional precaution small metal rings are slipped on the outside. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- From whence does this proceed, but that the memory in the first case assists the fancy and gives an additional force and vigour to its conceptions? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Mr. Tupman did as he was requested; and the additional stimulus of the last glass settled his determination. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It parts with its flexible responsiveness and alert eagerness for additional meaning. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Sherman's force made an additional army, with cavalry, artillery, and trains, all to be supplied by the single track road from Nashville. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Lee brought additional troops and artillery against Parke even after this was done, and made several assaults with very heavy losses. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Attempts were made to send up additional European guards to the Peking legations, but this only precipitated matters. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The imitation of the action of horses' hoofs was one of the means attempted, but such additional aids were eventually found to be of no avail, and were discontinued. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- I could not chance causing her additional pain or sorrow by declaring a love which, in all probability she did not return. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Every additional day of unhappy confidence, on your side, would have made the blow more dreadful. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Mr. Pickwick expressed his heartfelt delight at every additional suggestion; and his eyes beamed with hilarity and cheerfulness. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The idea that she had that helpless and gentle creature to protect, gave additional strength to the natural courage of the honest Irishwoman. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- During the 16th, after the surrender, additional reinforcements arrived. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She talked little; but that was an additional charm. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- If the damper is kept open, coal is rapidly consumed, and the additional heat passes out through the chimney, and is lost to use. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- With the influx of German immigrants, who brought with them a game similar to the Dutch game, additional popularity was given to the sport. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- At the same time, two additional personages appeared on the scene. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The work of the rescue party is therefore a labor of desperate heroism and often attended by additional loss of life. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Besides, he was obliged to raise additional large sums of money from other sources for this purpose. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- To give additional protection sand bags, bullet-proof, were placed along the tops of the parapets far enough apart to make loop-holes for musketry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- That the pupil did not dilate and contract seems additional proof that the fish must have lived at a depth of probably fifteen hundred or two thousand feet, where there is little light. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- She passed so bad a night that she was ill prepared for the additional anxiety caused by a letter received from Frederick. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- If a gentle breeze is blowing, a barely perceptible opening of a window will give the needed amount, even if there are no additional drafts of fresh air into the room through cracks. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It has ruined the boat fishery, which is by far the best adapted for the supply of the home market; and the additional bounty of 2s:8d. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Typist: Weldon