auxiliary

Noun

auxiliary (plural auxiliaries)

1. A person or group that acts in an auxiliary manner
2. A sailing vessel equiped with an engine.
3. (grammar) An auxiliary verb

9 letters in word "auxiliary": A A I I L R U X Y.

No anagrams for auxiliary found in this word list.

• Definitions:
• functioning in a subsidiary or supporting capacity; "the main library and its auxiliary branches" aide: someone who acts as assistant accessory: furnishing added support; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other"
• A verb used with another, non-finite, form of a verb to form a periphrasis.
• A second method of propelling a vessel. On a sailboat this could be a engine.
• Enterprises that function in a subsidiary capacity providing services, materials or facilities to University and non-University elements. Generally speaking, they cover their own expenses. Examples are DUAA, DUFS, Golf Course, Press, etc.
• in English, auxiliary verbs are those which carry distinctions of tense, aspect, etc, such as do, be and have. The modal auxiliaries include can/could, may/might, shall/should, ought to, need and used to. Auxiliary verbs are opposed to main verbs ( walk, play, etc.)
• A chemical of formulated chemical product which enables a processing operation in preparation, dyeing, printing of finishing to be carried out more effectively or which is essential if a given effect is to be obtained.
• An engine used as secondary propulsion in a sailboat
• Pop-up menus and dialog that allow you to customize the input method appear in the Auxiliary area. You can have multiple Auxiliary areas managed by the input method and independent of the client. ...
• A local unit of the Auxiliary to the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. Generally followed by a number.
• a boat designed primarily for sailing, but with a supplementary inboard engine. Letter B
• In military usage, a soldier recruited from a foreign territory.
• A heat pump is designed to provide full heat to a building until the outdoor air temperature drops below the design balance point, at which time the auxiliary or supplemental or backup or second stage electric heating element is activated. ...
• In sound mixers, supplemental equipment or features that provide additional capabilities to the basic system. Examples of auxiliary equipment include: serial processors (equalizers, compressors, limiters, gates) and parallel processors (reverberation and delay). ...
• (Helping.) Applied to such account books as are kept merely as aids to the principal books.
• A jack found on some head units that is used to add a second source. A portable CD player for example.
• Synonym for a reserve parachute, especially on a tandem harness.

• auxiliars ←
• auxiliaries ←
• auxiliar ←
• auxiliary
• → auxin
• → auxinic
• → auxinically