Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A - Page 21
Add (v. t.) 添加；增加 [（+to）]；將……相加 [（+up/ together）] To join or unite, as one thing to another, or as several particulars, so as to increase the number, augment the quantity, enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate. Hence: To sum up; to put together mentally; as, to add numbers; to add up a column.
Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings. -- Milton.
As easily as he can add together the ideas of two days or two years. -- Locke.
Add (v. t.) To append, as a statement; to say further.
He added that he would willingly consent to the entire abolition of the tax. -- Macaulay.
Syn: To Add, Join, Annex, Unite, Coalesce.
Usage: We add by bringing things together so as to form a whole. We join by putting one thing to another in close or continuos connection. We annex by attaching some adjunct to a larger body. We unite by bringing things together so that their parts adhere or intermingle. Things coalesce by coming together or mingling so as to form one organization. To add quantities; to join houses; to annex territory; to unite kingdoms; to make parties coalesce.
Add (v. i.) 增加 [（+to）]；做加法；加起來 To make an addition. To add to, to augment; to increase; as, it adds to our anxiety. "I will add to your yoke." -- 1 Kings xii. 14.
Add (v. i.) To perform the arithmetical operation of addition; as, he adds rapidly.
ADD (n.) A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders [syn: attention deficit disorder, ADD, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, hyperkinetic syndrome, minimal brain dysfunction, minimal brain damage, MBD].
ADD, (v.) Make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of; "We added two students to that dorm room"; "She added a personal note to her letter"; "Add insult to injury"; "Add some extra plates to the dinner table" [ant: take away, take out].
ADD, (v.) State or say further; "`It doesn't matter,' he supplied" [syn: add, append, supply].
ADD, (v.) Bestow a quality on; "Her presence lends a certain cachet to the company"; "The music added a lot to the play"; "She brings a special atmosphere to our meetings"; "This adds a light note to the program" [syn: lend, impart, bestow, contribute, add, bring].
ADD, (v.) Make an addition by combining numbers; "Add 27 and 49, please!" [syn: add, add together] [ant: deduct, subtract, take off].
ADD, (v.) Determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town" [syn: total, tot, tot up, sum, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add together, tally, add up].
ADD, (v.) Constitute an addition; "This paper will add to her reputation".
ADD Adapter Device Driver (OS/2).
ADD AGP Digital Display [adapter] (AGP).
Addable (a.) 可增加的，可附加的 Addible.
Addable (a.) Capable of being added or added to [syn: addable, addible].
Addax (n.) (Zool.) 【動】（北非產的）旋角羚羊 One of the largest African antelopes ({Hippotragusnasomaculatus or Oryx nasomaculatus).
Note: It is now believed to be the Strepsiceros (twisted horn) of the ancients. By some it is thought to be the pygarg of the Bible.
Addax (n.) Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of northern Africa [syn: addax, Addax nasomaculatus].
Addeem (v. t.) To award; to adjudge. [Obs.] "Unto him they did addeem the prise." -- Spenser.
Addenda (n. pl. ) of Addendum.
Addendum (n.) 附錄，附加物 A thing to be added; an appendix or addition.
Addendum circle (Mech.), The circle which may be described around a circular spur wheel or gear wheel, touching the crests or tips of the teeth. -- Rankine.
Adder (n.) [C] 加者；【電腦】加算機 One who, or that which, adds; esp., a machine for adding numbers.
Adder (n.) A serpent. [Obs.] "The eddre seide to the woman." -- Wyclif. Gen. iii. 4. )
Adder (n.) (Zool.) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera. The common European adder is the Vipera (/ Pelias) berus. The puff adders of Africa are species of Clotho.
Adder (n.) (Zool.) In America, the term is commonly applied to several harmless snakes, as the milk adder, puffing adder, etc.
Adder (n.) Same as Sea Adder.
Note: In the sculptures the appellation is given to several venomous serpents, -- sometimes to the horned viper ({Cerastles).
Adder (n.) A person who adds numbers.
Adder (n.) A machine that adds numbers.
Adder (n.) Small terrestrial viper common in northern Eurasia [syn: adder, common viper, Vipera berus].
Adder, () (Ps. 140:3; Rom. 3:13, "asp") is the rendering of, (1.) Akshub ("coiling" or "lying in wait"), properly an asp or viper, found only in this passage. (2.) Pethen ("twisting"), a viper or venomous serpent identified with the cobra (Naja haje) (Ps. 58:4; 91:13); elsewhere "asp." (3.) Tziphoni ("hissing") (Prov. 23:32); elsewhere rendered "cockatrice," Isa. 11:8; 14:29; 59:5; Jer. 8:17, as it is here in the margin of the Authorized Version. The Revised Version has "basilisk." This may have been the yellow viper, the Daboia xanthina, the largest and most dangerous of the vipers of Palestine. (4.) Shephiphon ("creeping"), occurring only in Gen. 49:17, the small speckled venomous snake, the "horned snake," or cerastes. Dan is compared to this serpent, which springs from its hiding-place on the passer-by.
ADDER, (n.) A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.
Adder fly () A dragon fly.
Adder's-tongue (n.) (Bot.) 赤蓮屬植物；瓶爾小草屬植物；【美】山慈菇 A genus of ferns ({Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue.
Adder's-tongue (n.) The yellow dogtooth violet. -- Gray.
Adderwort (n.) (Bot.) The common bistort or snakeweed ({Polygonum bistorta).
Addibility (n.) The quantity of being addible; capability of addition. -- Locke.
Addible (a.) 可增加的，可附加的 Capable of being added. "Addible numbers." -- Locke.
Addice (n.) See Adze. [Obs.] -- Moxon.
Addict (p. p.) Addicted; devoted. [Obs.]
Addicted (imp. & p. p.) of Addict
Addicting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Addict
Addict (v. t.) 使沉溺，使醉心；使成癮 [H] [（+to）] To apply habitually; to devote; to habituate; -- with to. "They addict themselves to the civil law." -- Evelyn.
He is addicted to his study. -- Beau. & Fl.
That
part of mankind that addict their minds to speculations. -- Adventurer.
His genius addicted him to the study of antiquity. -- Fuller.
A man gross . . . and addicted to low company. -- Macaulay.
Addict (v. t.) To adapt; to make suitable; to fit. [Obs.]
The land about is exceedingly addicted to wood, but the coldness of the place hinders the growth. -- Evelyn.
Syn: Addict, Devote, Consecrate, Dedicate. Addict was formerly used in a good sense; as, addicted to letters; but is now mostly employed in a bad sense or an indifferent one; as, addicted to vice; addicted to sensual indulgence. "Addicted to staying at home." -- J. S. Mill. Devote is always taken in a good sense, expressing habitual earnestness in the pursuit of some favorite object; as, devoted to science. Consecrate and dedicate express devotion of a higher kind, involving religious sentiment; as, consecrated to the service of the church; dedicated to God.
Addict (n.) Someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction; "a golf addict"; "a car nut"; "a bodybuilding freak"; "a news junkie" [syn: addict, nut, freak, junkie, junky].
Addict (n.) 入迷的人；有癮的人 [C] Someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance; abrupt deprivation of the substance produces withdrawal symptoms.
Addict (v.) To cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug) [syn: addict, hook].
Addict (n.) [ C ] (B2) （尤指對有害之物）有癮的人，入迷的人 A person who cannot stop doing or using something, especially something harmful.
// A drug/ heroin addict.
// A gambling addict.
// (Humorous) I'm a chocolate/ shopping addict.
Addictedness (n.) The quality or state of being addicted; attachment.
Addiction (n.) 沉溺；成癮；上癮；入迷 The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination. "His addiction was to courses vain." -- Shak.
Addiction (n.) Being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) [syn: addiction, dependence, dependance, dependency, habituation].
Addiction (n.) An abnormally strong craving.
Addiction (n.) (Roman law) A formal award by a magistrate of a thing or person to another person (as the award of a debtor to his creditor); a surrender to a master; "under Roman law addiction was the justification for slavery".
Addiction (n.) [ C/ U ] 沉溺；成癮；上癮；入迷 The need or strong desire to do or to have something, or a very strong liking for something.
// [ U ] His addiction began with prescription drugs.
// [ C ] I have an addiction to mystery stories.
Addictive (a.) (C1) 使人上癮的 An addictive drug is one that you cannot stop taking once you have started.
// Tobacco is highly addictive.
Addictive (a.) (C1) （活動或食品）使人上癮的，使人入迷的 An addictive activity or food is one that you cannot stop doing or eating once you have started.
// The problem with video games is that they're addictive.
// These nuts are addictive - I can't stop eating them.
Addictive personality成癮個性 A set of characteristics that mean that you very quickly become addicted to drugs, food, alcohol, etc.
// He's got an addictive personality.
Addison's disease (n.) 愛迪生氏病 A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not to be dependent upon this causes exclusively. It is usually fatal.
Additament (n.) 附加物 An addition, or a thing added. -- Fuller.
My persuasion that the latter verses of the chapter were an additament of a later age. -- Coleridge.
Addition (n.) 加法；[C] 附加，附加物，增加部分，[U] 加 The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution. "This endless addition or addibility of numbers." -- Locke.
Addition (n.) Anything added; increase; augmentation; as, a piazza is an addition to a building.
Addition (n.) (Math.) That part of arithmetic which treats of adding numbers.
Addition (n.) (Mus.) A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half. [R.]
Addition (n.) (Law) A title annexed to a man's name, to identify him more precisely; as, John Doe, Esq.; Richard Roe, Gent.; Robert Dale, Mason; Thomas Way, of New York; a mark of distinction; a title.
Addition (n.) (Her.) Something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honor; -- opposed to abatement.
Additional (a.) 附加的，另外的 Added; supplemental; in the way of an addition.
Vector addition (Geom.), That kind of addition of two lines, or vectors, AB and BC, by which their sum is regarded as the line, or vector, AC.
Syn: Increase; accession; augmentation; appendage; adjunct.
Addition (n.) A component that is added to something to improve it; "the addition of a bathroom was a major improvement"; "the addition of cinnamon improved the flavor" [syn: addition, add-on, improver].
Addition (n.) The act of adding one thing to another; "the addition of flowers created a pleasing effect"; "the addition of a leap day every four years" [ant: deduction, subtraction].
Addition (n.) A quantity that is added; "there was an addition to property taxes this year"; "they recorded the cattle's gain in weight over a period of weeks" [syn: addition, increase, gain].
Addition (n.) Something added to what you already have; "the librarian shelved the new accessions"; "he was a new addition to the staff" [syn: accession, addition].
Addition (n.) A suburban area laid out in streets and lots for a future residential area.
Addition (n.) The arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers; "the summation of four and three gives seven"; "four plus three equals seven" [syn: summation, addition, plus].
Additional (n.) Something added. [R.] -- Bacon.
Additionally (adv.) 加之；又；另外 By way of addition.
Additionally (adv.) In addition, by way of addition; furthermore; "he serves additionally as the CEO" [syn: additionally, to boot].
Additionary (a.) Additional. [R.] -- Herbert.
Addititious (a.) Additive. [R.] -- Sir J. Herschel.
Additive (a.) (Math.) 添加的添加物，加法 Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.
Additory (a.) Tending to add; making some addition. [R.] -- Arbuthnot.
Addle (n.) Liquid filth; mire. [Obs.]
Addle (n.) Lees; dregs. [Prov. Eng.] -- Wright.
Addle (a.) 腐壞的；混濁的；昏亂的；糊塗的 Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled. -- Dryden.
Addled (imp. & p. p.) of Addle
Addling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Addle
Addle (v. t. & i.) （使）腐壞；（使）混亂 To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his brain. "Their eggs were addled." -- Cowper.
Addle (v. t. & i.) To earn by labor. [Prov. Eng.] -- Forby.
Addle (v. t. & i.) To thrive or grow; to ripen. [Prov. Eng.]
Kill ivy, else tree will addle no more. -- Tusser.
Addle-head
Addle-brain
Addle (v.) Mix up or confuse; "He muddled the issues" [syn: addle, muddle, puddle].
Addle (v.) Become rotten; "addled eggs".
Addle-brain (n.) Alt. of Addle-pate.
Addle-head (n.) Alt. of Addle-pate.
Addle-pate (n.) A foolish or dull-witted fellow. [Colloq.]
Addle-headed
Addle-brained
Addle-brained (a.) Alt. of Addle-pated.
Addle-headed (a.) Alt. of Addle-pated.
Addle-pated (a.) Dull-witted; stupid. "The addle-brained Oberstein." -- Motley.
Dull and addle-pated. -- Dryden.
Addle-patedness (n.) Stupidity.
Addled (a.) (Of eggs) 變質腐敗的 No longer edible; "an addled egg".
Addled (a.) 昏亂的 Confused and vague; used especially of thinking; "muddleheaded ideas"; "your addled little brain"; "woolly thinking"; "woolly-headed ideas" [syn: addled, befuddled, muddled, muzzy, woolly, wooly, woolly-headed, wooly-minded].
Addlings (n. pl.) Earnings. [Prov. Eng.] -- Wright.
Addoom (v. t.) To adjudge. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Addorsed (a.) (Her.) Set or turned back to back.
Addressed (imp. & p. p.) of Address
Addressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Address
Address (v. t.) 在……上寫收件人姓名地址；向……致詞，向……發表演說；對……說話；稱呼 [（+as）]；（向……）提出，（給……）寫（信）[（+to）]；對付；滿足 To aim; to direct. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
And this good knight his way with me addrest. -- Spenser.
Address (v. t.) To prepare or make ready. [Obs.]
His foe was soon addressed. -- Spenser.
Turnus addressed his men to single fight. -- Dryden.
The five foolish virgins addressed themselves at the noise of the bridegroom's coming. -- Jer. Taylor.
Address (v. t.) Reflexively: To prepare one's self; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
These men addressed themselves to the task. -- Macaulay.
Address (v. t.) To clothe or array; to dress. [Archaic]
Tecla . . . addressed herself in man's apparel. -- Jewel.
Address (v. t.) To direct, as words (to any one or any thing); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any one, an audience).
The young hero had addressed his players to him for his assistance. -- Dryden.
Address (v. t.) To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition, etc., to speak to; to accost.
Are not your orders to address the senate? -- Addison.
The representatives of the nation addressed the king. -- Swift.
Address (v. t.) To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit; as, he addressed a letter.
Address (v. t.) To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.
Address (v. t.) (Com.) To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore.
To address one's self to.
(a) To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to.
(b) To direct one's speech or discourse to.
To address the ball (Golf), To take aim at the ball, adjusting the grip on the club, the attitude of the body, etc., to a convenient position.
Address (v. i.) To prepare one's self. [Obs.] "Let us address to tend on Hector's heels." -- Shak.
Address (v. i.) To direct speech. [Obs.]
Young Turnus to the beauteous maid addrest. -- Dryden.
Note: The intransitive uses come from the dropping out of the reflexive pronoun.
Address (n.) Act of preparing one's self. [Obs.] -- Jer Taylor.
Address (n.) 住址，地址 [C]；（信封等上的）姓名和地址 [C]；演說，致詞 [C]；舉止，風度，談吐 [U]；稱呼，頭銜 [C]（通常用addresses）；（處理問題的）本領，技巧 [U] Act of addressing one's self to a person; verbal application.
Address (n.) A formal communication, either written or spoken; a discourse; a speech; a formal application to any one; a petition; a formal statement on some subject or special occasion; as, an address of thanks, an address to the voters.
Address (n.) Direction or superscription of a letter, or the name, title, and place of residence of the person addressed.
Address (n.) Manner of speaking to another; delivery; as, a man of pleasing or insinuating address.
Address (n.) Attention in the way one's addresses to a lady.
Address (n.) Skill; skillful management; dexterity; adroitness.
Syn: Speech; discourse; harangue; oration; petition; lecture; readiness; ingenuity; tact; adroitness.
Address (n.) (Computer science) The code that identifies where a piece of information is stored [syn: address, computer address, reference].
Address (n.) The place where a person or organization can be found or communicated with.
Address (n.) The act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience; "he listened to an address on minor Roman poets" [syn: address, speech].
Address (n.) The manner of speaking to another individual; "he failed in his manner of address to the captain".
Address (n.) A sign in front of a house or business carrying the conventional form by which its location is described.
Address (n.) Written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location [syn: address, destination, name and address].
Address (n.) The stance assumed by a golfer in preparation for hitting a golf ball.
Address (n.) Social skill [syn: savoir-faire, address].
Address (v.) Speak to; "He addressed the crowd outside the window" [syn: address, turn to].
Address (v.) Give a speech to; "The chairman addressed the board of trustees" [syn: address, speak].
Address (v.) Put an address on (an envelope) [syn: address, direct].
Address (v.) Direct a question at someone.
Address (v.) Address or apply oneself to something, direct one's efforts towards something, such as a question.
Address (v.) Greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name; "He always addresses me with `Sir'"; "Call me Mister"; "She calls him by first name" [syn: address, call].
Address (v.) Access or locate by address.
Address (v.) Act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression; "This book deals with incest"; "The course covered all of Western Civilization"; "The new book treats the history of China" [syn: cover, treat, handle, plow, deal, address].
Address (v.) Speak to someone [syn: address, accost, come up to].
Address (v.) Adjust and aim (a golf ball) at in preparation of hitting.
Address, () e-mail address.
Address, () IP address.
Address, () MAC address.
Address, () An unsigned integer used to select one fundamental element of storage, usually known as a word from a computer's main memory or other storage device. The CPU outputs addresses on its address bu connected to an address decoder, cache controller, memory management unit, and other devices.
While from a hardware point of view an address is indeed an integer most strongly typed programming languages disallow mixing integers and addresses, and indeed addresses of different data types. This is a fine example for syntactic salt: the compiler could work without it but makes writing bad programs more difficult. (1997-07-01)
ADDRESS, () chan. plead. That part of a bill which contains the appropriate and technical description of the court where the plaintiff seeks his remedy. Coop. Eq. Pl. 8; Bart. Suit in Eq. Story, Eq. Pl. Sec. 26 Van Hey. Eq. Draft. 2.
ADDRESS, () legislation. In Pennsylvania it is a resolution of both, branches of the legislature, two-thirds of each house concurring, requesting the governor to remove a judge from office. The constitution of that state, art. 5, s. 2, directs that "for any reasonable cause, which shall not be, ground for impeachment, the governor may remove any of them [the judges], on the address of two-third's of each branch of the legislature." The mode of removal by address is unknown to the constitution of the, United States, but it is recognized in several of the states. In some of the state constitutions the language is imperative; the governor when thus addressed shall remove; in others it is left to his discretion, he may remove. The relative proportion of each house that must join in the address, varies also in different states. In some a bare majority is sufficient; in others, two- thirds are requisite; and in others three-fourths. 1 Journ. of Law, 154.
Addressee (n.) 收信人；[計] 被訪地址 One to whom anything is addressed.
Addressee (n.) One to whom something is addressed.
Addression (n.) The act of addressing or directing one's course. [Rare & Obs.] -- Chapman.
Adduced (imp. & p. p.) of Adduce
Adducing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adduce
Adduce (v. t.) 引用；舉例 To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.
Reasons . . . were adduced on both sides. -- Macaulay.
Enough
could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration. -- De Quincey.
Syn: To present; allege; advance; cite; quote; assign; urge; name;
mention.
Adduce (v.) Advance evidence for [syn: adduce, abduce, cite].
Adducent (a.) (Physiol.) 【生理】內收的 Bringing together or towards a given point; -- a word applied to those muscles of the body which pull one part towards another. Opposed to abducent.
Adducent (a.) Especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part [syn: adducent, adductive, adducting] [ant: abducent, abducting].
Adducer (n.) 引證；援引；舉例；說明理由 One who adduces.
Adducer (n.) A discussant who offers an example or a reason or a proof.
Adducible (a.) 可以引用的；可舉出的 Capable of being adduced.
Proofs innumerable, and in every imaginable manner diversified, are adducible. -- I. Taylor.
Adduct (v. t.) (Physiol.) 【生】使內收，使並攏 To draw towards a common center or a middle line. -- Huxley.
Adduct (n.) A compound formed by an addition reaction.
Adduct (v.) Draw a limb towards the body; "adduct the thigh muscle" [ant: abduct].
Adduction (n.) 【生理】內收作用；引用；引證 The act of adducing or bringing forward.
An adduction of facts gathered from various quarters. -- I. Taylor.
Adduction (n.) (Physiol.) The action by which the parts of the body are drawn towards its axis]; -- opposed to abduction.
Adduction (n.) (Physiology) Moving of a body part toward the central axis of the body.
Adductive (a.) 內收的；併攏的 Adducing, or bringing towards or to something.
Adductive (a.) Especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part [syn: adducent, adductive, adducting] [ant: abducent, abducting].
Adductor (n.) 【解】內收肌，收肌 A muscle which draws a limb or part of the body toward the middle line of the body, or closes extended parts of the body; -- opposed to abductor; as, the adductor of the eye, which turns the eye toward the nose.
In the
bivalve shells, the muscles which close the values of the shell are called
adductor muscles. -- Verrill.
Adductor (n.) A muscle that draws a body part
toward the median line [syn: adductor, adductor muscle].
Addulce (v. t.) To sweeten; to soothe. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Adeem (v. t.) (Law) To revoke, as a legacy, grant, etc., or to satisfy it by some other gift.
Adelantadillo (n.) [Sp.] A Spanish red wine made of the first ripe grapes.
Adelantado (n.) A governor of a province; a commander. -- Prescott.
Adelaster (n.) (Bot.) A provisional name for a plant which has not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to its proper genus.
Adeling (n.) Same as Atheling.
Compare: Atheling
Atheling (n.) （盎格魯撒克遜的）貴族，公子，太子或皇子 An Anglo-Saxon prince or nobleman; esp., the heir apparent or a prince of the royal family. [Written also Adeling and [AE]theling.] Atheneum