adjunct vs contraction

adjunct

noun
  • An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient. 

  • A dispensable phrase in a clause or sentence that modifies its meaning. 

  • A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar. 

  • Symploce. 

  • One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors. 

  • A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague. 

  • A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key. 

  • An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity. 

adj
  • Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position. 

  • Connected in a subordinate function. 

contraction

noun
  • The acquisition of something, generally negative. 

  • A period of economic decline or negative growth. 

  • Syncope, the loss of sounds from within a word. 

  • A process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are lost or reduced, such that it becomes a bound morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word. 

  • A strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth. 

  • A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity. 

  • A reversible reduction in size. 

  • A word with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe, usually resulting from the above process. 

  • The process of contracting a disease. 

  • A distinct stage of wound healing, wherein the wound edges are gradually pulled together. 

  • A shortening of a muscle during its use. 

How often have the words adjunct and contraction occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )