Crossword clues for juncture
juncture
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Juncture \Junc"ture\ (j[u^][ng]k"t[-u]r; 135), n. [L. junctura, fr. jungere to join. See Jointure.]
A joining; a union; an alliance. [Obs.] ``Devotional compliance and juncture of hearts.''
--Eikon Basilike.The line or point at which two bodies are joined; a joint; an articulation; a seam; as, the junctures of a vessel or of the bones.
--Boyle.-
A point of time; esp., one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances; hence, a crisis; an exigency. ``Extraordinary junctures.''
--Addison.In such a juncture, what can the most plausible and refined philosophy offer?
--Berkeley.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "place where two things are joined," from Latin iunctura "a joining, uniting, a joint," from iunctus, past participle of iungere "to join" (see jugular). Sense of "point in time" first recorded 1650s, probably from astrology.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A place where things join, a junction. 2 A critical moment in time. 3 (context linguistics English) The manner of moving (transition) or mode of relationship between two consecutive sounds; a suprasegmental phonemic cue, by which a listener can distinguish between two otherwise identical sequences of sounds that have different meanings.
WordNet
n. an event that occurs at a critical time; "at such junctures he always had an impulse to leave"; "it was needed only on special occasions" [syn: occasion]
a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made; "at that juncture he had no idea what to do"; "he must be made to realize that the company stands at a critical point" [syn: critical point, crossroads]
the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made [syn: articulation, join, joint, junction]
Wikipedia
Juncture is a 2007 thriller film directed by James Seale and the first in a planned trilogy. The plot revolves around the character of Anna Carter ( Kristine Blackport) an ordinary woman who turns into a vigilante.
Juncture, in linguistics, is the manner of moving (transition) or mode of relationship between two consecutive sounds. It is the relationship between two successive syllables in speech. A juncture is, formally, a suprasegmental phonemic cue, a means by which a listener can distinguish between two otherwise identical sequences of sounds that have different meanings.
Usage examples of "juncture".
In the Zone, at the juncture of nightmare and substance, the darklings had other, far greater threats at their disposal, but here, without the ability to draw strength and substance from cursed soil, they were limited by the same lack of substance that made them almost invulnerable to ordinary weapons.
The knot of the line fastened to Boba Fett slid down the outcropping and caught at the juncture of the stone and the crevice wall.
Astriphie was no ordinary steed, but a hippogriff, with the forequarters an enormous bird and the hindquarters a sturdy horse, the juncture between the two marked by a pair of golden-feathered wings.
But for his thoughtful diagnosis of the perils that lay before me, I should at this juncture have been deep in the mulligatawny and no hope of striking for the shore.
Even among psions, the juncture of talent and genetics that makes a Necromance is unusual.
Sure enough, there stood Omis, smiling as if at his own children, studying the juncture of the two neatly meshed gears.
At this juncture, the bishop of Vannes appeared, with a roll of plans and parchments under his arm.
Sir Robert, you must assuredly know James has no noble at this juncture to whom he may turn to take on the burden of the Wardenship of the Stannaries.
Dark on the back, white underneath, round and massive of body clear down to the tail, with the flattened side protuberances very marked, thick to the juncture with the flukes, he indeed gave a first impression of being some relation to old Xiphias gladius.
Gold from Zimbao and Punt, ivory from the southern plains of grass or from the forests along the great river, hides and dried meat, salted fish from the lakes, wine and oil from the terraced gardens of Zeng, copper from the hills of Tuya, and salt from pans along the west shores of the lakes, tin from the juncture of the two rivers, corn from the middle kingdom in baskets of woven cane, sun stones from the southern river of the crocodile, iron bars from the mines of Sala - and slaves, thousands upon thousands of human beings treated as domestic animals.
If Bernard was blooming, his bloom at this juncture must have deepened, and in so doing indeed have contributed an even brighter tint to his expression of salubrious happiness.
At this juncture Reece and Brouke romped in from the kitchen, each with a bottle.
Arlie had run off somewhere, leaving me in charge, and from my vantage behind the counter, located in an ante-room whose walls were covered by a holographic photomural of a blue sky day in the now-defunct Alaskan wilderness, and furnished with metal tables and chairs, all empty at that juncture, I could see colored lights playing back and forth within the bar, and hear the insistent rhythms of a pulse group.
Arlie had run off somewhere, leaving me in charge, and from my vantage behind the counter, located in an anteroom whose walls were covered by a holographic photomural of a blue-sky day in the now-defunct Alaskan wilderness, and furnished with metal tables and chairs, all empty at that juncture, I could see colored lights playing back and forth within the bar, and hear the insistent rhythms of a pulse group.
As for Quarrington, he would probably have refused to return to England at this juncture to please anyone other than Lady Arabella.