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Adjunct vs Accrue - What's the difference?

adjunct | accrue |

As nouns the difference between adjunct and accrue

is that adjunct is an appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity while accrue is (obsolete) something that accrues; advantage accruing.

As an adjective adjunct

is connected in a subordinate function.

As a verb accrue is

to increase, to augment; to come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent.

adjunct

English

(wikipedia adjunct)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Learning is but an adjunct to our self.
  • A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
    • (Wotton)
  • (grammar) A dispensable phrase in a clause or sentence that amplifies its meaning, such as "for a while" in "I typed for a while".
  • (rhetoric) Symploce.
  • (dated, 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.
  • (music) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
  • (syntax, X-bar theory) A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
  • *
    • We can see from (34) that Determiners are sisters of N-bar and daughters of
    N-double-bar; Adjuncts' are both sisters and daughters of N-bar; and Comple-
    ments are sisters of N and daughters of N-bar. This means that '''Adjuncts''' re-
    semble Complements in that both are daughters of N-bar; but they differ from
    Complements in that '''Adjuncts''' are sisters of N-bar, whereas Complements are
    sisters of N. Likewise, it means that '''Adjuncts''' resemble Determiners in that
    both are sisters of N-bar, but they differ from Determiners in that '     Adjuncts
    are daughters of N-bar, whereas Determiners are daughters of N-double-bar.

    Derived terms

    * adjuncthood * adjunctive

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Connected in a subordinate function.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Though that my death were adjunct to my act.
  • Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.

    • accrue

    English

    (wikipedia accrue)

    Verb

    (accru)
  • To increase, to augment; to come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent.
  • * And though power failed, her courage did accrue -
  • * Interest accrues to principal - Abbott
  • * The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press - Junius
  • (accounting) To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
    • The monthly financial statements show all the actual but only some of the accrued expenses.
  • (legal) To become an enforceable and permanent right.

    • Antonyms

    * (accounting) amortize

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Something that accrues; advantage accruing
    • English words prefixed with ad-