Crossword clues for auxiliary
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Auxiliary \Aux*il"ia*ry\, n.; pl. Auxiliaries.
A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise.
(Mil.) pl. Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force.
(Gram.) 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; [^e]tre and avoir, in French; avere and essere, in Italian; estar and haber, in Spanish.
(Math.) A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formul[ae].
--Math. Dict.
Auxiliary \Aux*il"ia*ry\ (?; 106), a. [L. auxiliarius, fr. auxilium help, aid, fr. augere to increase.] Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops.
Auxiliary scales (Mus.), the scales of relative or attendant keys. See under Attendant, a.
Auxiliary verbs (Gram.). See Auxiliary, n., 3.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from Latin auxiliaris "helpful," from auxilium "aid, help, support," related to auctus, past participle of augere "to increase" (see augment).
"foreign troops in service of a nation at war," c.1600, from auxiliary (adj.). Related: Auxiliaries.
Wiktionary
1 helping; give assistance or support. 2 supplementary or subsidiary. 3 held in reserve for exceptional circumstances. 4 (context nautical English) Of a ship, having both sails and an engine. 5 (context grammar English) Relating to an auxiliary ver
n. 1 A person or group that acts in an auxiliary manner. 2 A sailing vessel equipped with an engine. 3 (context grammar English) An auxiliary verb. 4 A marching band colorguard.
WordNet
n. someone who acts as assistant [syn: aide]
adj. functioning in a subsidiary or supporting capacity; "the main library and its auxiliary branches" [syn: subsidiary, supplemental, supplementary]
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" [syn: accessory, adjunct, ancillary, adjuvant, appurtenant, subsidiary]
Wikipedia
Auxiliary may refer to:
- A backup site or system
An auxiliary group (also "sweetheart" or "little brother/sister" group) is an unofficial, unsanctioned partner organization to a fraternity or sorority, usually for members of the opposite sex. The two largest Greek umbrella organizations for social fraternities and sororities, the North-American Interfraternity Conference and the National Panhellenic Conference ban the formation of or discourage membership in auxiliary groups. Some fraternities and sororities outside of these conferences also ban auxiliaries, including Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and Sigma Alpha Iota. Part of the rationale behind banning auxiliary groups is that such groups could jeopardize the host organizations' Title IX exemptions, citing the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Roberts v. United States Jaycees.
Usage examples of "auxiliary".
Games were also to go to the lower level and take the aft end including the auxiliary machinery room, then cover Pig and Python.
A hundred feet aft, the outer door of the signal ejector opened, and twenty seconds later a solenoid valve in a branch pipe from the auxiliary seawater system popped open, sending high-pressure seawater into the bottom of the signal ejector tube that pushed out the radio buoy.
To which of the stages of language does this belong--the agglutinative, in which one root is fastened on to another, and a word is formed in which the constitutive elements are obviously distinct, or the inflexional, where the auxiliary roots get worn down and are only distinguishable by the philologist?
Once they had arrived at the auxiliary airlock, Akers unwittingly made a miscalculation: He allowed Sasaki and Nash to enter the airlock by themselves, leaving him outside with Kawakami and Verduin.
Junior League, an active Kappa alumna, something in the hospital auxiliary, and something else at the country club.
A hundred mounted arquebusiers brought up the rear, followed by a hundred horse-archer auxiliaries.
A quicker method, Lacy told Bucher, would be to open the cooling water intakes and outlets in the main engine room and cut a hole into the auxiliary engine room from the main engine room.
Kerckhoffs accurately regarded it as an auxiliary to cryptography, a means to the end of perfecting military codes and ciphers.
The duke of Argyle endeavoured to demonstrate the danger of depending for the safety of the kingdom upon an undisciplined militia, a fleet, or an army of auxiliaries.
Somehow, he caught an image of Sura Noviwho was not a Speaker, not even a Second Foundationer, not even educated grimly at his side, playing a vital auxiliary role in the drama that was coming.
The air inside the cockpit was starting to warm up from our combined body heat, and a huffer was standing by in case we needed its auxiliary compressed air to get a clean start on the engine.
Keeping in view the transformable nature of force, and the need that our systems have of auxiliary power in different departments, when normal activity is impaired by disease, we can readily understand how undoubted, curative effects result from either the manual or the mechanical administration of motion.
I must report that Admiral Iota has barricaded himself in Auxiliary Control and now holds weaponry, helm and navigational systems.
Admiral Iota has seized auxiliary control and opened fire on the enemy.
Fortunately for the rebel column and its American auxiliaries, the Intruders had dumped their load on the vehicles, which had been standing empty along the Kerch Road, on the west side of the ridge.