[syn: accessory, adjunct, ancillary, adjuvant, appurtenant, auxiliary]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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Auxiliary scales (Mus.), the scales of relative or
attendant keys. See under Attendant, a.
Auxiliary verbs (Gram.). See Auxiliary, n., 3.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Auxiliary \Aux*il"ia*ry\, n.; pl. Auxiliaries.
1. A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or
enterprise.
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2. (Mil.) pl. Foreign troops in the service of a nation at
war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or
subsidiary force.
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3. (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.
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4. (Math.) A quantity introduced for the purpose of
simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in
equations or trigonometrical formul[ae]. --Math. Dict.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
auxiliary
adj 1: functioning in a supporting capacity; "the main library
and its auxiliary branches" [syn: auxiliary,
subsidiary, supplemental, supplementary]
2: furnishing added support; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant
discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are
auxiliary to each other" [syn: accessory, adjunct,
ancillary, adjuvant, appurtenant, auxiliary]
n 1: someone who acts as assistant [syn: aide, auxiliary]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
124 Moby Thesaurus words for "auxiliary":
abetting, accessory, accident, accidental, acolyte, addendum,
addition, additional, adjunct, adjutant, adjuvant, adscititious,
adventitious, agent, aid, aide, aide-de-camp, aider, aiding,
alter ego, ancillary, another, appendage, appurtenance,
appurtenant, ascititious, assistance, assistant, assisting,
attendant, auxiliary verb, backing, best man, casual,
circumstantial, coadjutant, coadjutor, coadjutress, coadjutrix,
collateral, complementary, contingency, contingent, contributory,
copula, defective verb, deponent verb, deputy, executive officer,
extra, farther, finite verb, fortuitous, fostering, fresh, further,
girl Friday, happenstance, help, helper, helpful, helping,
helpmate, helpmeet, impersonal verb, incidental, inessential,
infinitive, instrumental, intransitive, intransitive verb,
lieutenant, linking verb, man Friday, mere chance, ministerial,
ministering, ministrant, modal auxiliary, more, neuter verb, new,
nonessential, not-self, nurtural, nutricial, other, paranymph,
paraprofessional, peripheral, plus, reserve, second, secondary,
servant, serving, sideman, spare, subordinate, subservient,
subsidiary, superadded, superaddition, superfluous, supernumerary,
supervenient, supplement, supplemental, supplementary, support,
supporter, supporting, supporting actor,
supporting instrumentalist, supportive, surplus, transitive,
tributary, ulterior, unessential, upholding, verb, verb phrase,
verbal