Conjunction vs. Adjunct — What's the Difference?

The act of joining.

Something attached to another in a dependent or subordinate position.

The state of being joined.

A person associated with another in a subordinate or auxiliary capacity.

A joint or simultaneous occurrence; concurrence

(Grammar) A clause or phrase added to a sentence that, while not essential to the sentence's structure, amplifies its meaning, such as for several hours in We waited for several hours.

One resulting from or embodying a union; a combination

(Logic) A nonessential attribute of a thing.

The part of speech that serves to connect words, phrases, clauses, or sentences.

Added or connected in a subordinate or auxiliary capacity

Any of the words belonging to this part of speech, such as and, but, as, and because.

Attached to a faculty or staff in a temporary or auxiliary capacity

(Astronomy) The position of two celestial objects when they have the same celestial longitude. As viewed from Earth, two objects in conjunction will appear to be close to each other in the sky.

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

A compound proposition that has components joined by the word and or its symbol and is true only if both or all the components are true.

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

The relationship between the components of a conjunction.

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

The act of joining, or condition of being joined.

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

(grammar) A word used to join other words or phrases together into sentences. The specific conjunction used shows how the two joined parts are related.

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

Cooccurrence; coincidence.

(grammar) A dispensable phrase in a clause or sentence that modifies its meaning.

(astronomy) The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth.

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

(astrology) An aspect in which planets are in close proximity to one another.

(rhetoric) Symploce.

(logic) The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the ∧ ($\backslash and$) operator.

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

A place where multiple things meet

Connected in a subordinate function.

(obsolete) Sexual intercourse.

Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.

The act of conjoining, or the state of being conjoined, united, or associated; union; association; league.

Conjoined; attending; consequent.

A connective or connecting word; an indeclinable word which serves to join together sentences, clauses of a sentence, or words; as, and, but, if.

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

The temporal property of two things happening at the same time;

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

The state of being joined together

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."

An uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences

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

The grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction

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

(astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac

A person who is an assistant or subordinate to another

Something that joins or connects

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;

Of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another