furnishing added support; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxiliary to…
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relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law; "adjective law"
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Parts of speech.furnishing added support; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxiliary to…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Parts of speech.furnishing added support; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxiliary to…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Parts of speech.furnishing added support; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxiliary to…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Parts of speech.furnishing added support; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxiliary to…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Parts of speech.of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify; "‘red’ is an attributive adjective in ‘a red apple’"
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Parts of speech.furnishing added support; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxiliary to…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Parts of speech.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
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Parts of speech.a determining or causal element or factor; "education is an important determinant of one's outlook on life"
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Parts of speech.someone whose task is to see that work goes harmoniously
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Parts of speech.being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vu…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Parts of speech.someone whose task is to see that work goes harmoniously
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Parts of speech.the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order; "the counting continued for several hours"
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Parts of speech.a noun that forms plurals
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Parts of speech.the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order; "the counting continued for several hours"
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Parts of speech.given to or marked by the open expression of emotion; "an affectionate and demonstrative family"
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Parts of speech.a determining or causal element or factor; "education is an important determinant of one's outlook on life"
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A suffix of certain words from the French, Italian, and Spanish. It denotes manner or style; like; as, arabesque, after the manner of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, denotes, members, class.A suffix used to from adjectives from nouns and from adjectives. It denotes relation, resemblance, similarity, and sometimes has a dim…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, denotes, members, class.Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, denotes, members, class.A noun which has no distinction of cases; an indeclinable noun.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, denotes, members, class.In most branches of science bi- in composition denotes two, twice, or doubly; as, bidentate, two-toothed; biternate, doubly ternate, e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, denotes, members, class.One of the forms, or the inflections or changes of form, of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, which indicate its relation to other words,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, denotes, members, class.a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes.; "Also c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, denotes, members, class.a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes.; "Also c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, denotes, members, class.A prefix from the Latin, whence F. des, or sometimes de-, dis-. The Latin dis-appears as di-before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, v, becomes dif…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, denotes, members, class.Denoting a mere result or consequence, as distinguished from telic, which denotes intention or purpose; thus the phrase / /, if render…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, denotes, members, class.A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly di…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, denotes, members, class.a noun formed from a verb (such as the ‘-ing’ form of an English verb when used as a noun)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, denotes, members, class.
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