Auxiliary

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  • adjective. Giving assistance or support; helping.
  • adjective. Acting as a subsidiary; supplementary.
  • adjective. Held in or used as a reserve.
  • adjective. Equipped with a motor as well as sails.
  • adjective. Of, relating to, or being an auxiliary verb.
  • noun. An individual or group that assists or functions in a supporting capacity.
  • noun. A member of a foreign body of troops serving a country in war.
  • noun. An auxiliary verb.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A sailing vessel equipped with a motor.
  • noun. A vessel, such as a supply ship or a tug, that is designed for and used in instances and services other than combat.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In the nomenclature of the sutural inflections in the ammonoid cephalopods, a lobe or saddle lying between the umbilical curve or line of involution and the second lateral lobe.
  • noun. In mech., any machine except the principal one: a term applied specifically to the feed-pumps, fire-pumps, etc., in power plants.
  • noun. A vessel fitted with power other than sails for propulsion but depending ordinarily on the latter.
  • Helping; aiding; assisting; giving support or succor; hence, subsidiary; additional: as, auxiliary troops; auxiliary engines.
  • noun. A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action, enterprise, or undertaking; an aid of any kind.
  • noun. Specifically—2. plural Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war.
  • noun. In grammar, a verb used in forming, with the infinitive and participles of other verbs, phrases having the value of, or a value analogous to that of, modes and tenses: thus, I do love, I have loved, I shall love, I am loved.
  • noun. In mathematics, an auxiliary quantity (which see, under I.).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops.
  • adjective. the scales of relative or attendant keys. See under Attendant, a.
  • adjective. See Auxiliary, n., 3.
  • noun. A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise.
  • noun. Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force.
  • noun. A verb which helps to form the voices, modes, and tenses of other verbs; -- called, also, an auxiliary verb
  • noun. A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formulæ.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Helping; giving assistance or support.
  • adjective. Supplementary or subsidiary.
  • adjective. Held in reserve for exceptional circumstances.
  • adjective. Of a ship, having both sails and an engine.
  • adjective. Relating to an auxiliary verb.
  • noun. A person or group that acts in an auxiliary manner.
  • noun. A sailing vessel equipped with an engine.
  • noun. An auxiliary verb.
  • noun. A marching band colorguard.
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  • adjective. furnishing added support
  • adjective. functioning in a supporting capacity
  • noun. someone who acts as assistant
  • Word Usage
    "Headquarters: the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, with main auxiliary clubhouses in Dallas and Houston."
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