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Synonyms for appendage

Grammar : Noun
Spell : uh-pen-dij
Phonetic Transcription : əˈpɛn dɪdʒ

Top 10 synonyms for appendage
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Définition of appendage

Origin :
  • 1640s, from append + -age.
  • noun limb; accessory
Example sentences :
  • The subject is a great one and cannot be adequately treated as an appendage to another.
  • Extract from : « Timaeus » by Plato
  • This appendage, there can be no doubt, originated with the basilicas of Italy.
  • Extract from : « Architecture » by Thomas Roger Smith
  • Did it ever occur to you that it must be disagreeable to Watch to have such an appendage to his tail?
  • Extract from : « Paul Prescott's Charge » by Horatio Alger
  • Proximal: that part of an appendage nearest the body: see distal.
  • Extract from : « Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology » by John. B. Smith
  • Simple, Simplex: without process, armature, or appendage of any kind.
  • Extract from : « Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology » by John. B. Smith
  • The tablinum was an appendage of the atrium, and usually entirely open to it.
  • Extract from : « Museum of Antiquity » by L. W. Yaggy
  • This appendage is often found to measure eighteen inches in length!
  • Extract from : « The Hunters' Feast » by Mayne Reid
  • Because this appendage disappeared, it was certain that it must be thin and flat.
  • Extract from : « Myths and Marvels of Astronomy » by Richard A. Proctor
  • An appendage is that which hangs to something as a part of it.
  • Extract from : « Orthography » by Elmer W. Cavins
  • They brought us to a villa which was a kind of appendage to one of the Emperor's palaces, about eight miles beyond Pekin.
  • Extract from : « Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton » by John Barrow

Antonyms for appendage

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