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juncture
1、 An important point in a process or activity.
2、 A place where things join: junction.
🌱The architect claims his design for the new Islamic Museum represents a juncture of Muslim and Western culture. 🌳The meaning of juncture can be entirely physical; thus, you can speak of the juncture of the turnpike and Route 116, or the juncture of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers. But it more often means something nonphysical. This may be a moment in time, especially a moment when important events are "crossing" （"At this critical juncture, the President called together his top security advisers"）. But juncture also often refers to the coming together of two or more ideas, systems, styles, or fields （"These churches seem to operate at the juncture of religion and patriotism," "Her job is at the juncture of product design and marketing," etc.）. adjunct Something joined or added to another thing of which it is not a part.
🌱All technical-school students learn that classroom instruction can be a valuable adjunct to hands-on training. 🌳With its prefix, ad-, meaning "to or toward," adjunct implies that one thing is "joined to" another. A car wash may be operated as an adjunct to a gas station. An adjunct professor is one who's attached to the college without being a full member of the salaried faculty. And anyone trying to expand his or her vocabulary will find that daily reading of a newspaper is a worthwhile adjunct to actual vocabulary study. disjunction A break, separation, or sharp difference between two things.
🌱By now she realized there was a serious disjunction between the accounts of his personal life that his two best friends were giving her. 🌳A disjunction may be a mere lack of connection between two things, or a large gulf. There's often a huge disjunction between what people expect from computers and what they know about them, and the disjunction between a star's public image and her actual character may be just as big. We may speak of the disjunction between science and morality, between doing and telling, or between knowing and explaining. In recent years, disjunction seem to have been losing out to a newer synonym, the noun disconnect. conjunct Bound together; joined, united.
🌱Politics and religion were conjunct in 18th-century England, and the American colonists were intent on separating the two. 🌳With its prefix con-, meaning "with, together," conjunct means basically "joined together." A rather intellectual word, it has special meanings in music （referring to a smooth melodic line that doesn't skip up or down） and astronomy （referring to two stars or planets that appear next to each other）, but its more general "bound together" meaning is rarer. A conjunction is a word （particularly and, or, or but） that joins together words or groups of words, and an adverb that joins two clauses or sentences （such as so, however, meanwhile, therefore, or also） is called a conjunctive adverb—or simply a conjunct.
2、 A place where things join: junction.
🌱The architect claims his design for the new Islamic Museum represents a juncture of Muslim and Western culture. 🌳The meaning of juncture can be entirely physical; thus, you can speak of the juncture of the turnpike and Route 116, or the juncture of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers. But it more often means something nonphysical. This may be a moment in time, especially a moment when important events are "crossing" （"At this critical juncture, the President called together his top security advisers"）. But juncture also often refers to the coming together of two or more ideas, systems, styles, or fields （"These churches seem to operate at the juncture of religion and patriotism," "Her job is at the juncture of product design and marketing," etc.）. adjunct Something joined or added to another thing of which it is not a part.
🌱All technical-school students learn that classroom instruction can be a valuable adjunct to hands-on training. 🌳With its prefix, ad-, meaning "to or toward," adjunct implies that one thing is "joined to" another. A car wash may be operated as an adjunct to a gas station. An adjunct professor is one who's attached to the college without being a full member of the salaried faculty. And anyone trying to expand his or her vocabulary will find that daily reading of a newspaper is a worthwhile adjunct to actual vocabulary study. disjunction A break, separation, or sharp difference between two things.
🌱By now she realized there was a serious disjunction between the accounts of his personal life that his two best friends were giving her. 🌳A disjunction may be a mere lack of connection between two things, or a large gulf. There's often a huge disjunction between what people expect from computers and what they know about them, and the disjunction between a star's public image and her actual character may be just as big. We may speak of the disjunction between science and morality, between doing and telling, or between knowing and explaining. In recent years, disjunction seem to have been losing out to a newer synonym, the noun disconnect. conjunct Bound together; joined, united.
🌱Politics and religion were conjunct in 18th-century England, and the American colonists were intent on separating the two. 🌳With its prefix con-, meaning "with, together," conjunct means basically "joined together." A rather intellectual word, it has special meanings in music （referring to a smooth melodic line that doesn't skip up or down） and astronomy （referring to two stars or planets that appear next to each other）, but its more general "bound together" meaning is rarer. A conjunction is a word （particularly and, or, or but） that joins together words or groups of words, and an adverb that joins two clauses or sentences （such as so, however, meanwhile, therefore, or also） is called a conjunctive adverb—or simply a conjunct.
JUNCT comes from the Latin verb jungere, meaning "to join." A junction is a place where roads or railways come together. A conjunction is a word that joins two other words or groups of words: "this and that," "to be or not to be."🌸