Definition of auxiliary

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Auxiliary (n.) A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise.

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Ought :: Ought (imp., p. p., or auxiliary) To be necessary, fit, becoming, or expedient; to behoove; -- in this sense formerly sometimes used impersonally or without a subject expressed..
Auxiliary :: Auxiliary (sing.) A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formulae..
Adminicle :: Adminicle (n.) Help or support; an auxiliary.
Do :: Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To bring to an end by action; to perform completely; to finish; to accomplish; -- a sense conveyed by the construction, which is that of the past participle done..
Shall :: Shall (v. i. & auxiliary.) As an auxiliary, shall indicates a duty or necessity whose obligation is derived from the person speaking; as, you shall go; he shall go; that is, I order or promise your going. It thus ordinarily expresses, in the second and third persons, a command, a threat, or a promise. If the auxillary be emphasized, the command is made more imperative, the promise or that more positive and sure. It is also employed in the language of prophecy; as, the day shall come when . .
Preventer :: Preventer (n.) An auxiliary rope to strengthen a mast.
Flat :: Flat (n.) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal..
Auxiliar :: Auxiliar (a.) Auxiliary.
Do :: Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To cheat; to gull; to overreach.
Do :: Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To see or inspect; to explore; as, to do all the points of interest..
Would :: Would (v. t.) Commonly used as an auxiliary verb, either in the past tense or in the conditional or optative present. See 2d & 3d Will..
Doctor :: Doctor (n.) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine..
Auxiliary :: 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..
Do :: Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To put or bring into a form, state, or condition, especially in the phrases, to do death, to put to death; to slay; to do away (often do away with), to put away; to remove; to do on, to put on; to don; to do off, to take off, as dress; to doff; to do into, to put into the form of; to translate or transform into, as a text..
Do :: Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To bring about; to produce, as an effect or result; to effect; to achieve..
Ancillary :: Ancillary (a.) Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary..
Do :: Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To cause; to make; -- with an infinitive.
Supply :: Supply (n.) Auxiliary troops or reenforcements.
Do :: Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To make ready for an object, purpose, or use, as food by cooking; to cook completely or sufficiently; as, the meat is done on one side only..
Assistant :: Assistant (a.) Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
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