Definition of auxiliary

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Auxiliary (n.) A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise.

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Preventer :: Preventer (n.) An auxiliary rope to strengthen a mast.
Auxiliary :: Auxiliary (sing.) A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formulae..
Assistant :: Assistant (a.) Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
Shall :: Shall (v. i. & auxiliary.) To be obliged; must.
Subsidized :: Subsidiary (n.) One who, or that which, contributes aid or additional supplies; an assistant; an auxiliary..
Logarithm :: Logarithm (n.) One of a class of auxiliary numbers, devised by John Napier, of Merchiston, Scotland (1550-1617), to abridge arithmetical calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of multiplication and division..
Auxiliary :: Auxiliary (sing.) 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; etre and avoir, in French; avere and essere, in Italian; estar and haber, in Spanish..
Auxiliary :: Auxiliary (a.) Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops.
Do :: Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To bring about; to produce, as an effect or result; to effect; to achieve..
Doctor :: Doctor (n.) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine..
Well :: Well (v. i.) A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of water.
Appoggiatura :: Appoggiatura (n.) A passing tone preceding an essential tone, and borrowing the time it occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree above or below the principal note unless it be of the same harmony; -- generally indicated by a note of smaller size, as in the illustration above. It forms no essential part of the harmony..
Ought :: Ought (imp., p. p., or auxiliary) To be necessary, fit, becoming, or expedient; to behoove; -- in this sense formerly sometimes used impersonally or without a subject expressed..
Auxiliary :: Auxiliary (n.) Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force..
Adminicular :: Adminicular (a.) Supplying help; auxiliary; corroborative; explanatory; as, adminicular evidence..
Lemma :: Lemma (n.) A preliminary or auxiliary proposition demonstrated or accepted for immediate use in the demonstration of some other proposition, as in mathematics or logic..
Adminicle :: Adminicle (n.) Help or support; an auxiliary.
Could :: Could (imp.) Was, should be, or would be, able, capable, or susceptible. Used as an auxiliary, in the past tense or in the conditional present..
Auxiliary :: Auxiliary (n.) A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise.
Must :: Must (v. i. / auxiliary) To be obliged; to be necessitated; -- expressing either physical or moral necessity; as, a man must eat for nourishment; we must submit to the laws..
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