AUXILIARY
\ɔːksˈɪli͡əɹɪ], \ɔːksˈɪliəɹɪ], \ɔː_k_s_ˈɪ_l_iə_ɹ_ɪ]\
Definitions of AUXILIARY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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relating to something that is added but is not essential; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxilliary to each other"
By Princeton University
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relating to something that is added but is not essential; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxilliary to each other"
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A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise.
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Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force.
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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.
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A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formulae.
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A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise.
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Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force.
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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.
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A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formulae.
By Noah Webster.
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Helping; aiding; assisting.
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A helper; an assistant; a confederate or ally; aid of any kind; a verb which helps to form the moods and tenses of other verbs.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. Aiding. 2. An aid or assistance.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Helping; aiding.
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A helper; an assistant; a confederate. A verb which helps to form the moods and tenses of other verbs.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Robley Dunglison
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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