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Adjutant vs Adjunct - What's the difference?

adjutant | adjunct |

As nouns the difference between adjutant and adjunct

is that adjutant is a lower-ranking officer who assists a higher-ranking officer with administrative affairs while adjunct is an appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.

As adjectives the difference between adjutant and adjunct

is that adjutant is the noun used as a modifier (e.g. adjutant officer) while adjunct is connected in a subordinate function.

adjutant

English

(wikipedia adjutant) (Leptoptilos)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (military) A lower-ranking officer who assists a higher-ranking officer with administrative affairs.
  • An assistant.
  • A bird in the genus Leptoptilos of the stork family Ciconiidae.

    • Synonyms

    * (bird) marabou

    Derived terms

    * (bird) greater adjutant, Leptoptilos dubius * (bird) lesser adjutant, Leptoptilos javanicus

    Adjective

    (-)
  • The noun used as a modifier (e.g. adjutant officer).

    • Synonyms

    * *

    See also

    * adjuvant * aid ----

    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.