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
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard 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"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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 Oddity Software
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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
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Robley Dunglison
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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