Conjunctive definition

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Joining; connective.
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A connective word, especially a conjunction or conjunctive adverb.
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Joined together; combined.

The conjunctive focus of political opposition.

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Serving to connect elements of meaning and construction within sentences, as and and since, or between sentences, as therefore.
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Serving to join together; connective.
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United; combined; joint.
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Used as a conjunction.

The conjunctive adverb “consequently”

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Connecting both the meaning and the construction of sentence elements.

“and” and “moreover” are conjunctive.

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Always used in conjunction with the verb.
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(gram.) A conjunctive word; esp., a conjunction.
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The definition of conjunctive is something that joins, or is two things combining or co-occurring.

Tissue that joins muscle to bone is an example of conjunctive tissue.

Two scientific theories that go together and combine in a way that both make sense are an example of conjunctive theories.

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Of, relating to, or being a conjunction.
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(grammar) Relating to a conjunction.
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(grammar) Of a personal pronoun, used only in immediate conjunction with the verb of which the pronoun is the subject, such as French je or Irish sé
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(grammar, of a verb) Subjunctive: inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact.
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(logic) Of or relating to logical conjunction.
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Conjunctive Sentence Examples

  • The external conjunctive is usually a living comparatively small-celled tissue, whose cells are consider ably elongated in the direction of the stem-axis and frequently contain abundant starch.

  • In the majority of ferns, at a higher level, after the stele has increased greatly in diameter, a large-celled true pith or medulla, resembling the cortex in its characters, and quite distinct from conjunctive, from which it is separated by an internal endodernlis, appears in the centre.

  • Sometimes, however, the centre of a bulky root stale has strands of metaxylem (to which may be added strands of metaphioem) scattered through it, the interstices being filled with conjunctive.

  • The external conjunctive tissue is often arranged in relation to each bundle separately, the pericyclic fibres for instance, already referred to, being cften confined to the bands of pericyclic tissue abutting on the phloem of each bundle, while the Cortex and pith frequently form rays in the intervals between the adjacent bundles.

  • The type of siphonostele characteristic of many ferns, in which are found internal phloem, and an internal endodermis separating the vascular conjunctive from the pith is known as a solenostele.

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