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Meaning of துணை in English

  • Accompanying, as a subordinate; additional; accessory; esp., uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See Accessory.
  • One who, not being present, contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense.
  • Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music.
  • That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate.
  • Same as Accessary, n.
  • Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts.
  • Joining; having the quality of joining; forming an adjunct.
  • One who, or that which, is joined.
  • Serving to help or assist; helping.
  • A substance added to an immunogenic agent to enhance the production of antibodies.
  • A substance added to a formulation of a drug which enhances the effect of the active ingredient.
  • Helping; helpful; assisting.
  • An assistant.
  • An ingredient, in a prescription, which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient.
  • Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary.
  • A maidservant; a handmaid.
  • Having the quality of associating; tending or leading to association; as, the associative faculty.
  • Pertaining to, or containing, auxesis; amplifying.
  • of Auxiliary
  • Auxiliary.
  • An auxiliary.
  • By way of help.
  • Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops.
  • A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise.
  • Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force.
  • A verb which helps to form the voices, modes, and tenses of other verbs; -- called, also, an auxiliary verb; as, have, be, may, can, do, must, shall, and will, in English; etre and avoir, in French; avere and essere, in Italian; estar and haber, in Spanish.
  • A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formulae.
  • Auxiliary; helping.
  • Companionable; sociable.
  • Same as Impanator.
  • One who accompanies or is in company with another for a longer or shorter period, either from choice or casually; one who is much in the company of, or is associated with, another or others; an associate; a comrade; a consort; a partner.
  • A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders; as, a companion of the Bath.
  • A fellow; -- in contempt.
  • A skylight on an upper deck with frames and sashes of various shapes, to admit light to a cabin or lower deck.
  • A wooden hood or penthouse covering the companion way; a companion hatch.
  • To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany.
  • To qualify as a companion; to make equal.
  • Following by consequence; consequent; deducible.
  • That which follows by consequence or is logically deducible; deduction from premises; corollary.
  • One appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieutenant; a representative; a delegate; a vicegerent; as, the deputy of a prince, of a sheriff, of a township, etc.
  • A member of the Chamber of Deputies.
  • A body of armed men to attend a person of distinction for the sake of affording safety when on a journey; one who conducts some one as an attendant; a guard, as of prisoners on a march; also, a body of persons, attending as a mark of respect or honor; -- applied to movements on land, as convoy is to movements at sea.
  • Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion; as, to travel under the escort of a friend.
  • To attend with a view to guard and protect; to accompany as safeguard; to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to; -- used esp. with reference to journeys or excursions on land; as, to escort a public functionary, or a lady; to escort a baggage wagon.
  • of Escort
  • To betroth; to promise in marriage; to give as spouse.
  • To take as spouse; to take to wife; to marry.
  • To take to one's self with a view to maintain; to make one's own; to take up the cause of; to adopt; to embrace.
  • The act of espousing, or the state of being espoused.
  • Relating to paramorphism; exhibiting paramorphism.
  • A lover, of either sex; a wooer or a mistress (formerly in a good sense, now only in a bad one); one who takes the place, without possessing the rights, of a husband or wife; -- used of a man or a woman.
  • Love; gallantry.
  • Alt. of Paramours
  • Of or pertaining to paraphernalia; as, paraphernal property.
  • A prefix signifying under, below, beneath, and hence often, in an inferior position or degree, in an imperfect or partial state, as in subscribe, substruct, subserve, subject, subordinate, subacid, subastringent, subgranular, suborn. Sub- in Latin compounds often becomes sum- before m, sur before r, and regularly becomes suc-, suf-, sug-, and sup- before c, f, g, and p respectively. Before c, p, and t it sometimes takes form sus- (by the dropping of b from a collateral form, subs-).
  • A prefix denoting that the ingredient (of a compound) signified by the term to which it is prefixed,is present in only a small proportion, or less than the normal amount; as, subsulphide, suboxide, etc. Prefixed to the name of a salt it is equivalent to basic; as, subacetate or basic acetate.
  • A subordinate; a subaltern.
  • The act of reducing to any state, as of mixing two bodies combletely.
  • Put secretly in the place of something else; foisted in.
  • Expressed by the square root; -- said of ratios.
  • An assistant editor, as of a periodical or journal.
  • Lying under or below.
  • Being in a lower situation, though not directly beneath; as, hills and subjacent valleys.
  • Act of subjoining, or state of being subjoined.
  • Something subjoined; as, a subjunction to a sentence.
  • Situated under the chin; as, the submental artery.
  • The basal part of the labium of insects. It bears the mentum.
  • One of several heraldic bearings somewhat less common than an ordinary. See Ordinary.
  • Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.
  • Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like.
  • One who stands in order or rank below another; -- distinguished from a principal.
  • To place in a lower order or class; to make or consider as of less value or importance; as, to subordinate one creature to another.
  • To make subject; to subject or subdue; as, to subordinate the passions to reason.
  • of Subordinate
  • Tending to subordinate; expressing subordination; used to introduce a subordinate sentence; as, a subordinative conjunction.
  • Somewhat oval; nearly oval.
  • The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.
  • Situated under, or posterior to, the pubic bones.
  • Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the sacrum.
  • Situated beneath the scapula; infrascapular; as, the subscapular muscle.
  • Alt. of Subscapulary
  • Following in a train or succession.
  • Deeper than the reach of the senses.
  • of Subserve
  • In a subsidiary manner; so as to assist.
  • Furnishing aid; assisting; auxiliary; helping; tributary; especially, aiding in an inferior position or capacity; as, a subsidiary stream.
  • Of or pertaining to a subsidy; constituting a subsidy; being a part of, or of the nature of, a subsidy; as, subsidiary payments to an ally.
  • One who, or that which, contributes aid or additional supplies; an assistant; an auxiliary.
  • An under sizar; a student of lower rank than a sizar.
  • Subvertebral.
  • Situated beneath a spinous process, as that of the scapula; as, subspinous dislocation of the humerus.
  • Bounding; leaping; moving by sudden leaps or starts.
  • A starting, twitching, or convulsive motion.
  • The act of coming under.
  • The act of relieving, as of a burden; support; aid; assistance; help.
  • A government aid or bounty.
  • To subventionize.
  • To subvert.
  • That which supplies a deficiency, or meets a want; a store; a supply.
  • That which fills up, completes, or makes an addition to, something already organized, arranged, or set apart; specifically, a part added to, or issued as a continuation of, a book or paper, to make good its deficiencies or correct its errors.
  • The number of degrees which, if added to a specified arc, make it 180¡; the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees, or an arc falls short of a semicircle.
  • To fill up or supply by addition; to add something to.
  • Alt. of Supplementary
  • Added to supply what is wanted; additional; being, or serving as, a supplement; as, a supplemental law; a supplementary sheet or volume.
  • of Supplement
  • Alt. of Suppletory
  • Supplying deficiencies; supplementary; as, a suppletory oath.
  • That which is to supply what is wanted.
  • of Support

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