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juncture|ˈdʒʌŋktjʊə(r), -tʃə(r)|
Also 5 -tur, 7 Sc. -tor, 8 joncture.
[ad. L. junctūra joining, joint, f. junct-, ppl. stem of jungĕre to join: see -ure.]
1. The action of joining together; the condition of being joined together; joining, junction.
1589Warner Alb. Eng. v. xxvii, Signes workings, planets iunctures, and The eleuated poule. 1643Nethersole Parables on Times 14 The juncture and contignation those parts had with the whole frame. a1657Sir W. Mure Historie Wks. II. 239 The match and junctor of both families in one. 1703Rowe Fair Penit. i. i. 218 Perhaps she means To treat in Juncture with her new Ally. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 282 Making arbitrary junctures for which she has given no foundation. 1821Foster in Life & Corr. (1846) II. 41 The juncture with what precedes and follows. 1893F. Adams New Egypt 8 This Arabian Khalif, who anticipated the Suez Canal by his juncture of the Nile and the Red Sea.
2. a. The place at which, or structure by which, two things are joined; a joint, jointing, junction.
1382Wyclif 1 Kings vi. 18 Hauynge his turnours, and his iuncturis forgid, and grauyngis ouerbeynge. 1519W. Horman Vulg. 339 Thou canst nat spy the iuncture though thou loke nie. 1609Bible (Douay) Hab. ii. 11 The timber, that is betwen the junctures of the buildings. 1707Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 39 The place where the Stem and the Root join, is called the Juncture. 1763Hist. Eur. in Ann. Reg. 27/1 It stands at the juncture of that great river with another. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. I. 153 The junctures of the marble slabs being so close.
†b. A joint of the body; = joint n. 1. Obs.
c1475Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 749/25 Hic [sic] junctura, junctur. 1513Douglas æneis iv. xii. 103 The iuncturis and lethis of hir cors. 1609Bible (Douay) Ezek. xxxvii. 7 And bones came to bones, everie one to his iuncture. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 584 Cold diseases of the..nerves and junctures. 1717J. Keill Anim. Oecon. Pref. (1738) 10 The different Junctures of the Bones.
c. Linguistics. The transition between two linguistic segments or between an utterance and preceding or following silence; the phonetic feature that marks such a transition. Also attrib.
[1934Priebsch & Collinson German Lang. iii. 210 When a stem-vowel or declensional suffix in its crude form occurs in the first components of compound substantives and adjectives, it is called the ‘Fugenvokal’, i.e. juncture vowel.] 1941Language XVII. 224 Those [phonemes] that relate to the way in which utterances begin and end..we call juncture phonemes... A logical order of exposition..will begin with the juncture phenomena... The present study..will deal with junctures, stresses, [etc.]. Ibid. 225 The transition from a pause preceding an isolated utterance to the first segmental phoneme, and from the last segmental phoneme to the following pause, we call open juncture. 1942Bloch & Trager Outl. Ling. Analysis ii. 35 Phenomena relating to the way in which sounds are joined together are summarized under the term juncture. 1946E. A. Nida Morphol. 94 When two items are combined, there are potentially several different types of junctures, or seams, at the point of contact. 1957S. Potter Mod. Ling. iii. 73 No less elusive than intonation..are the related features of juncture and pause. Where precisely does one syllable end and another begin? 1969English Studies L. 292 They regard juncture as a special type of phoneme, neither segmental nor prosodic, causing sub-signemic changes in the environment. 1972R. Wardhaugh Introd. Linguistics 64 We can say that such words as nitrate, night rate, and Nye trait require the postulation of a juncture phoneme to show the difference.
3. Something that connects two things; a connecting link; a means of connexion or union. rare.
a1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. ii. vii. 203 Since the Flood there have been some such Junctures or Land-passages between the Northern parts of Asia or Europe, and some Northern parts of the Continent of America. 1841Myers Cath. Th. iv. §32. 332 The Epistle to the Hebrews..seems to stand as the uniting and harmonising juncture of the Pauline and the Petrine preaching. 1880J. Martineau Hours Th. II. 23 The ascending juncture that reaches from nothingness to God.
4. A convergence or concurrence of events or circumstances; a particular or critical posture of affairs or point of time; a crisis, conjuncture.
1656Manasseh ben Israel Vindiciæ Jud. in Phenix (1708) II. 423 But at that juncture of time my coming was not presently perform'd. 1658Phillips, s.v., Juncture of time, the very nick or moment of time. 1662Pepys Diary 30 June, This I take to be as bad a juncture as ever I observed. The King and his new Queene minding their pleasures at Hampton Court. All people discontented. 1704Addison Italy (1733) 58 As different Junctures and Emergencies arise. 1838Thirlwall Greece xv. II. 266 The course of action required by new situations, and sudden junctures. 1853Bright Sp., India (1876) 11 In the present critical juncture of things. 1874Green Short Hist. v. §4. 241 The most terrible plague which the world ever witnessed advanced at this juncture from the East.
†5. Joint-tenancy; = jointure 3. Obs.
1533–4[see jointure 3].
Hence ˈjunctural a., ˈjuncturally adv.
1942Language XVIII. 14 A suprasegmental phoneme is junctural if each member phone has a determining starting-point (or a determining end-point). 1964[see demarcative a.]. 1965Language XLI. 499 A separate phoneme..(which is subject to frequent loss, mainly but not wholly juncturally conditioned). 1966W. S. Allen in C. E. Bazell In Memory of J. R. Firth 11 This..would have been contrary to Greek junctural principles (being characteristic of close and not open juncture). |