Conjunction
[kən'dʒʌŋ(k)ʃ(ə)n] or [kən'dʒʌŋkʃən]
Definition
(noun.) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences.
(noun.) (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac.
(noun.) the grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction.
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Definition
(n.) The act of conjoining, or the state of being conjoined, united, or associated; union; association; league.
(n.) The meeting of two or more stars or planets in the same degree of the zodiac; as, the conjunction of the moon with the sun, or of Jupiter and Saturn. See the Note under Aspect, n., 6.
(n.) A connective or connecting word; an indeclinable word which serves to join together sentences, clauses of a sentence, or words; as, and, but, if.
Editor: Lucia
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Union, association, combination, connection.[2]. (Astron.) Apparent meeting (of two stars or planets).[3]. (Gram.) Connective, connecting word.
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Examples
- It contains as fundamental truths as have been uttered about education in conjunction with a curious twist. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The effect is there distinguishable and separable from the cause, and coued not be foreseen without the experience of their constant conjunction. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Suffering and amiability may exist together, and writers have loved to depict their conjunction; there is a human and touching harmony in the picture. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Sigel was in Winchester and was notified to move in conjunction with the others. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The first invention of the kind was patented by Mr. Crompton, in conjunction with Mr. Miller and Professor Cowper, in 1828. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Where this conjunction is of such a nature as to admit of division, but not of separation, the decision is natural and easy. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- This connexion or constant conjunction sufficiently proves the one part to be the cause of the other. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- And this, this conjunction with her, which was his highest fulfilment also, with the perverseness of a wilful child he wanted to deny. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- If constant conjunction be implyed in what we call occasion, it is a real cause. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It is plain, that this affection, in its most natural state, is derived from the conjunction of three different impressions or passions, viz. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- We may make almost the same answer to the second objection, derived from the conjunction of the ideas of rest and annihilation. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- You don't really want this conjunction, otherwise you wouldn't talk so much about it, you'd get it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Yes, in conjunction with his friend. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Of this kind Is the conjunction of the properties of different persons, after such a manner as not to admit of separation. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- And that these two bodies made up the most august assembly in Europe; to whom, in conjunction with the prince, the whole legislature is committed. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Did we never see any but particular conjunctions of objects, entirely different from each other, we should never be able to form any such ideas. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The several instances of resembling conjunctions lead us into the notion of power and necessity. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Of the meaning and use of the articles and conjunctions, verbs and adverbs and pronouns he had but the faintest conception. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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