auxiliary (noun)
1auxiliary language — noun : a language (as Esperanto or pidgin English) used for communication between persons that do not understand each other s native language compare interlanguage * * * a language, as Esperanto, Swahili, or English, used for intercommunication… …
2auxiliary — Ⅰ. auxiliary UK US /ɔːgˈzɪliəri/ adjective ► used in addition to the main team, organization, system, etc. in order to give extra help and support: auxiliary staff/police/nurses »About 4800 unarmed auxiliary police officers work on a volunteer… …
3auxiliary device — UK US noun [countable] [singular auxiliary device plural auxiliary devices] computing a piece of equipment that you can connect to your computer and use with it, for example a printer Thesaurus: computer eq …
4auxiliary — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ providing supplementary or additional help and support. ► NOUN (pl. auxiliaries) ▪ an auxiliary person or thing. ORIGIN Latin auxiliarius, from auxilium help …
5auxiliary verb — noun a verb that combines with another verb in a verb phrase to help form tense, mood, voice, or condition of the verb it combines with • Hypernyms: ↑verb • Hyponyms: ↑modal auxiliary verb, ↑modal auxiliary, ↑modal verb, ↑modal …
6auxiliary tone — noun or auxiliary note : an unaccented nonharmonic tone approached from above or below by stepwise motion and returning to the original tone * * * Music. a melodic ornamental tone following a principal tone by a step above or below and returning… …
7auxiliary bishop — noun see auxiliary II …
8auxiliary — (adj.) c.1600, from L. auxiliaris helpful, from auxilium aid, help, support, related to auctus, pp. of augere to increase (see AUGMENT (Cf. augment)). Military noun meaning foreign troops in service of a nation at war is from c.1600 …
9auxiliary verb — noun (C) a verb that is used with another verb to show its tense, person person (6), mood mood (6) etc. In English the auxiliary verbs are be , do , and have (as in I am running , I didn t go , they have gone ) and all the modal s …
10auxiliary verb — ► NOUN Grammar ▪ a verb used in forming the tenses, moods, and voices of other verbs (e.g. be, do, and have) …
