Conjunction vs. Interjection

Published: 22 Oct, 2021

Conjunctionnoun

The act of joining, or condition of being joined.

Interjectionnoun

(grammar) An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.

Conjunctionnoun

(obsolete) Sexual intercourse.

Interjectionnoun

An interruption; something interjected

Conjunctionnoun

(grammar) A word used to join other words or phrases together into sentences. The specific conjunction used shows how the two joined parts are related. Example: Bread, butter and cheese.

Interjectionnoun

The act of interjecting or throwing between; also, that which is interjected.

‘The interjection of laughing.’;

Conjunctionnoun

(astronomy) The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth.

Interjectionnoun

A word or form of speech thrown in to express emotion or feeling, as O! Alas! Ha ha! Begone! etc. Compare Exclamation.

‘An interjection implies a meaning which it would require a whole grammatical sentence to expound, and it may be regarded as the rudiment of such a sentence. But it is a confusion of thought to rank it among the parts of speech.’; ‘How now! interjections? Why, then, some be of laughing, as, ah, ha, he!’;

Conjunctionnoun

(astrology) An aspect in which planets are in close proximity to one another.

Interjectionnoun

an abrupt emphatic exclamation expressing emotion

Conjunctionnoun

(logic) The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the ∧ ( $\and$ ) operator.

Interjectionnoun

the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts

Conjunctionnoun

The act of conjoining, or the state of being conjoined, united, or associated; union; association; league.

‘He will unite the white rose and the red:Smille heaven upon his fair conjunction.’; ‘Man can effect no great matter by his personal strength but as he acts in society and conjunction with others.’;

Interjection

An interjection is a word or expression that occurs as an utterance on its own and expresses a spontaneous feeling or reaction. It is a diverse category, encompassing many different parts of speech, such as exclamations (ouch!, wow!), curses (damn!), greetings (hey, bye), response particles (okay, oh!, m-hm, huh?), hesitation markers (uh, er, um) and other words (stop, cool).

Conjunctionnoun

The meeting of two or more stars or planets in the same degree of the zodiac; as, the conjunction of the moon with the sun, or of Jupiter and Saturn. See the Note under Aspect, n., 6.

Conjunctionnoun

A connective or connecting word; an indeclinable word which serves to join together sentences, clauses of a sentence, or words; as, and, but, if.

‘Though all conjunctions conjoin sentences, yet, with respect to the sense, some are conjunctive and some disjunctive.’;

Conjunctionnoun

the temporal property of two things happening at the same time;

‘the interval determining the coincidence gate is adjustable’;

Conjunctionnoun

the state of being joined together

Conjunctionnoun

an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences

Conjunctionnoun

the grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction