| 单词 | conjunctive |
| 释义 | conjunctive (once / 25695 pages) 1adjn 2adj Something that's conjunctive tends to connect or combine two things. A conjunctive effort between two people is a combined attempt to get something done, and the word "and" in this very sentence is conjunctive since it's joining two phrases together. The word conjunctive often comes up in medical terminology, in phrases like "conjunctive tissue," or tissue that connects different parts of the body. Another kind of conjunctive is a part of speech — like the words "but" and "or" — that connects phrases or words within a sentence. Conjunctive comes from the Latin word coniunctivus, "serving to connect," with its root of coniungere, "to join together." WORD FAMILYconjunctive: conjunctively, conjunctives+/conjunction: conjunctions, conjunctive USAGE EXAMPLESAsked what she would do with a second gold if she won one in Rio, she took exception to the conjunctive. Los Angeles Times(Aug 17, 2016) Lucas and colleagues’ experiment tested the child and adult participants’ ability to recognize two different types of patterns: conjunctive causal relationships and disjunctive causal relationships. Forbes(Dec 03, 2014) The study “might just get tai chi on the map as a conjunctive treatment for Parkinson’s. BusinessWeek(Feb 08, 2012) 1 1adj serving or tending to connect Syn|Ant copulative syntactically connecting sentences or elements of a sentence connectiveconnecting or tending to connect disjunctive serving or tending to divide or separate adversative, oppositiveexpressing antithesis or opposition alternativenecessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities contrastivesyntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence divisionalserving to divide or marking a division partitive, separativeserving to separate or divide into parts separative(used of an accent in Hebrew orthography) indicating that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word that follows it 2n an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper conjunction, connective, continuative coordinating conjunction a conjunction (like `and' or `or') that connects two identically constructed grammatical constituents subordinate conjunction, subordinating conjunctiona conjunction (like `since' or `that' or `who') that introduces a dependent clause closed-class word, function word a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning adj involving the joint activity of two or more the conjunctive focus of political opposition Syn concerted, conjunct, cooperative joint united or combined |
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