accessory
/əkˈsɛs(ə)ri
/noun (plural accessories)
1A thing which can be added to something else in order to make it more useful, versatile, or attractive: optional accessories include a battery charger and shoulder strap...
- It also offers a very broad range of accessories including batteries, headsets, add-ons and clip-ons.
- They can then add optional extras and accessories to their car.
- To motorists, it's a useful accessory that allows them to talk without driving off the road.
Synonyms
attachment, extra, addition, add-on, retrofit, adjunct, appendage, appurtenance, (additional) component, fitment, supplement
1.1A small article or item of clothing carried or worn to complement a garment or outfit: she wore the suit with perfectly matching accessories—hat, bag, shoes...
- Do they also carry bridal accessories, like hair decorations, veils and shoes?
- These will be used by consumers to store favourite special garments, footwear and accessories.
- Money cannot buy style, but it can buy you the following chic garments and accessories.
Synonyms
adornment, embellishment, finery, trimming, ornament, ornamentation, decoration, complement, fashion detail, frill;
trappings;
handbag, shoes, gloves, hat, belt, jewellery
2 (also accessary) Law Someone who gives assistance to the perpetrator of a crime without taking part in it: she was charged as an accessory to murder...
- And should she thus be punished in the same way as the actual murderers, as an accessory to the crime?
- He said paying compensation for vehicles with varying declared value for duty at ZRA and the insured value would render the corporation an accessory to the crime of tax evasion.
- At the very least their actions make them an accessory to crime.
Synonyms
accomplice, partner in crime, abetter, associate, confederate, collaborator, fellow conspirator, henchman, conniver
adjective chiefly technical
Contributing to or aiding an activity or process in a minor way; subsidiary or supplementary: functionally the maxillae are a pair of accessory jaws...
- The ability of DNA polymerases to replicate DNA requires a number of additional accessory proteins.
- It later appears as the hyomandibular, an accessory jaw element.
- The integument is composed of the skin, which covers the entire body, in addition to accessory organs derived from skin.
Synonyms
additional, extra, supplementary, supplemental, auxiliary, ancillary, secondary, subsidiary, supportive, assisting, reserve, complementary, further, more, add-on
Phrases
accessory before (or after) the fact
Derivatives
accessorial
/ adjective (chiefly Law ) ...- To seek to distinguish pre-planned violence from spontaneous violence will give rise to inane discussions as to the relative meanings of spontaneous and pre-planned which are irrelevant to the question of accessorial liability.
- They could be patrimonial things or extra-patrimonial things; common things or sacred things; principal things or accessorial things; corporeal things or incorporeal things.
- The Law Commission should return to this subject as a matter of urgency, and should recommend one of these radical approaches to accessorial criminal liability.
Origin
Late Middle English: from medieval Latin accessorius 'additional thing', from Latin access- 'increased', from the verb accedere (see accede).
Rhymes
- throw one's hat in (or into) the ring
- throw one's hat in the ring
- throw one's money about/around
- throw one's toys out of the pram
- throw one's weight about (or around)
- throw one's weight behind
- throw (or cast or shed) light on
- throw (or catch) someone off balance
- throw (or chuck)a seven
- throw (or knock) someone for a loop
- throw (or pour) cold water on
- throw-over
- throw people together
- throw pillow
- throw rug
- throw shade
- throw shapes
- throw someone a bone
- throw someone a curve
- throw someone a curveball
- throw someone out
- throw someone over
- throw someone to the dogs
- throw someone to the lions
- throw someone to the wolves