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Rare
noun
•
An
appendage
; something
attached
to
something else
in a
subordinate
capacity
.
•
A person
associated
with another,
usually
in a
subordinate
position
; a
colleague
.
•
In Brewing:
An
unmalted
grain
or
grain
product that
supplements
the main
mash
ingredient
.
•
In Metaphysics:
A quality or
property
of the
body
or
mind
, whether
natural
or
acquired
, such as
colour in
the
body
or
judgement
in the
mind
.
•
In Music:
A
key
or
scale
closely
related
to another as
principal
; a
relative
or
attendant
key
.
•
In 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
.
•
In Rhetoric:
Symploce
.
•
In Category theory:
One of a
pair
of
morphisms
which
relate
to
each other
through a
pair
of
adjoint functors
.
adj
•
Connected
in a
subordinate
function
.
•
Added
to a
faculty
or
staff
in a
secondary
position
.
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