Adjunct vs. Phrase

An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.

A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.

(brewing) An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.

A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.

(music) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.

(grammar) A dispensable phrase in a clause or sentence that amplifies its meaning, such as "for a while" in "I typed for a while".

A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.

(rhetoric) Symploce.

(category theory) One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.

Connected in a subordinate function.

Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.

Conjoined; attending; consequent.

Example: ‘Though that my death were adjunct to my act.’;

Something joined or added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it.

Example: ‘Learning is but an adjunct to our self.’;

A person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; an associate.

A word or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American Revolution, where the words in italics are the adjunct or adjuncts of "History."

A quality or property of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired; as, color, in the body, judgment in the mind.

A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key. [R.] See Attendant keys, under Attendant, a.

something added to another thing but not an essential part of it

a person who is an assistant or subordinate to another

a construction that is part of a sentence but not essential to its meaning and can be omitted without making the sentence ungrammatical

relating to something that is added but is not essential;

Example: ‘an ancillary pump’; ‘an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism’; ‘The mind and emotions are auxilliary to each other’;

of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another

A short written or spoken expression.

(grammar) A word or group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence, usually consisting of a head, or central word, and elaborating words.

(music) A small section of music in a larger piece.

(archaic) A mode or form of speech; diction; expression.

(transitive) To express (an action, thought or idea) by means of particular words.

Example: ‘I wasn't sure how to phrase my condolences without sounding patronising.’;

To perform a passage with the correct phrasing.

To divide into melodic phrases.

A brief expression, sometimes a single word, but usually two or more words forming an expression by themselves, or being a portion of a sentence; as, an adverbial phrase.

Example: ‘"Convey" the wise it call. "Steal!" foh! a fico for the phrase.’;

A short, pithy expression; especially, one which is often employed; a peculiar or idiomatic turn of speech; as, to err is human.

A mode or form of speech; the manner or style in which any one expreses himself; diction; expression.

Example: ‘Thou speak'stIn better phrase and matter than thou didst.’;

A short clause or portion of a period.

To express in words, or in peculiar words; to call; to style.

To use proper or fine phrases.

To group notes into phrases; as, he phrases well. See Phrase, n., 4.

an expression forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence but not containing a finite verb

a short musical passage

an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up

put into words or an expression;

Example: ‘He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees’;

In syntax and grammar, a phrase is a group of words which act together as a grammatical unit. For instance, the English expression is a noun phrase which contains the adjective phrase .

Example: ‘the very happy squirrel’; ‘very happy’;