Uk English Meaning of auxiliary
auxiliary
Other Uk English words related to auxiliary
Nearest Words of auxiliary
- auxiliary airfield => auxiliary airfield
- auxiliary boiler => auxiliary boiler
- auxiliary cell => Auxiliary cell
- auxiliary engine => Auxiliary engine
- auxiliary equipment => auxiliary equipment
- auxiliary operation => auxiliary operation
- auxiliary pump => Auxiliary pump
- auxiliary research submarine => auxiliary research submarine
- auxiliary storage => auxiliary storage
- auxiliary verb => Auxiliary verb
Definitions and Meaning of auxiliary in English
auxiliary (n)
someone who acts as assistant
auxiliary (s)
functioning in a supporting capacity
furnishing added support
auxiliary (a.)
Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops.
auxiliary (n.)
A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise.
Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force.
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.
A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formulae.
FAQs About the word auxiliary
auxiliary
someone who acts as assistant, functioning in a supporting capacity, furnishing added supportConferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as
Accessory,additional,makeshift,peripheral,supplemental,supplementary,accessorial,added,appurtenant,complementary
basic,chief,main,primary,head teacher, principal,essential,fundamental,integral,necessary,prime
auxiliarly => auxiliary , auxiliaries => auxiliaries, auxiliar => Auxiliary, auxetophone => Auxetophone, auxetic => auxetic,