Auxiliary
[ɔːg'zɪlɪərɪ;ɒg-] or [ɔːɡ'zɪlɪəri]
Definition
(adj.) functioning in a supporting capacity; 'the main library and its auxiliary branches' .
Edited by Edward--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops.
(n.) A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise.
(n.) Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force.
(sing.) 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; etre and avoir, in French; avere and essere, in Italian; estar and haber, in Spanish.
(sing.) A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formulae.
Typist: Lycurgus
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Aiding, helping, assisting, ancillary, subsidiary, helpful.
n. Helper, assistant, coadjutor, adjutant, co-operative, ally, confederate, right-hand man.
Checked by Evan
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Helpful, abetting, aiding, accessory, promotive, conducive, assistant,ancillary, assisting, subsidiary, helping
ANT:Unassisting, unconducive, unpromotive, redundant, superfluous, obstructive,retardative, irrelevant, cumbersome
Inputed by Heinrich
Definition
adj. helping: subsidiary as troops.—ns. Auxil′iar an auxiliary; Auxil′iary a helper: an assistant: (gram.) a verb that helps to form the moods and tenses of other verbs.
Typed by Emile
Examples
- The buzzer, R, is maintained in rapid vibration by its independent auxiliary battery, B<1S>. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Huns now first appear within the empire as auxiliary troops enlisted under Stilicho. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A hopeful auxiliary, said Fitzurse impatiently; playing the fool in the very moment of utter necessity. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Then too the troops were well intrenched and the gunboats made a valuable auxiliary. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- And now, having such an auxiliary, you must do your best to show the unbelievers that you are right. Plato. The Republic.
- This air passing through a train pipe connected by hose couplings between cars charges an auxiliary reservoir under each car. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In practice, this buzzer was continuously operated at a speed of about five hundred vibrations per second by an auxiliary battery. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Also the arrangement of complete stations with steam and electric apparatus and auxiliary devices for insuring their efficient and continuous operation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This pump is intended to boost the pressure of the chemical tank and can also be used as an auxiliary pump. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The greatest of these works were located in Great Urgroez, Hungary, and Bisritz, Moravia, with twenty or more auxiliary establishments. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- To overcome that difficulty, an auxiliary electro-magnet is employed. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Allusion has already been made to the auxiliary plant at Liberty Street, a station of 2,000 lights’ capacity which was instituted in 1886. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The situation was saved, however, by the presence of an auxiliary plant that had already been opened on Liberty Street. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It was, with a large following, an auxiliary to the Confederate army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This dispenses with auxiliary refrigerants, and causes the expanding gases to supply the cold required for their own liquefaction by an entirely mechanical process. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The young men whom we before called guardians may be more properly designated auxiliaries and supporters of the principles of the rulers. Plato. The Republic.
- There were some unique auxiliaries to the painting which added to its spirited effect. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Might, could, would--they are contemptible auxiliaries. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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