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Definition: Adductive |
AdductiveAdjective1. (physiology) especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: AdductiveSynonyms: adducent (adj), adducting (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: abducent (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Recession | Adjective: attracting; Verb: attrahent, attractive, adducent, adductive. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
adductive | 2 |
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"Adductive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abductive. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "adductive" (pronounced 'Ad*duc"tive'): Abjunctive, Absorptive, Abstractive, Accretive, Active, Adscriptive, Affective, Afflictive, Appetitive, Arbustive, Architective, Assumptive, Astrictive, Astructive, Attentive, Benedictive, Calefactive, Chylifactive, Circumscriptive, Circumspective, Coactive, Collative, Completive, Compunctive, Conceptive, Concretive, Conglutinative, Conjunctive, Contortive, Convective, Costive, Creative, Deceptive, Decretive, Defunctive, Depletive, Descriptive, Diffractive, Discerptive, Discretive, Distinctive, Distractive, Eductive, Elative, Electro-motive, Emotive, Ententive, Excalfactive, Excerptive, Excrementive, Excretive, Exfoliative, Factive, festive, fictive, Flative, Fotive, furtive, Hastive, Humective, Imperceptive, inactive, inattentive, Indescriptive, Indictive, Indistinctive, Indutive, Innative, Inscriptive, instinctive, Insusceptive, Intellective, Intempestive, Intentive, Interstinctive, Introductive, introspective, Irreceptive, irrespective, Irretentive, irruptive, Jurisdictive, Magnetomotive, Miscreative, Native, Obstupefactive, Olfactive, Omnispective, Ortive, Ostentive, Pedomotive, Pendentive, Perceptive, Petrifactive, Plaintive, Poultive, Practive, Preceptive, Preemptive, Prescriptive, Presumptive, Productive, Promotive, Proscriptive, Putrefactive, Radio-active, receptive, redemptive, reductive, Repletive, reproductive, Rescriptive, respective, Resumptive, retrospective, Satisfactive, Sative, seductive, Self-active, self-destructive, stative, Stupefactive, Subreptive, Subscriptive, Subsultive, Subsumptive, subtractive, Susceptive, Tempestive, Tortive, Traductive, Transcriptive, Transumptive, Unattentive, Undistinctive, Vindictive, Votive. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-e-i-t-u-v" | |
-2 letters: audited, decidua, viaduct. | |
-3 letters: active, addict, adduce, adduct, advect, advice, caddie, cuddie, dative, dauted, dautie, deduct, didact, ducted. | |
-4 letters: acted, acute, adieu, aided, audit, cadet, caved, cavie, cited, civet, cutie, dated, davit, diced, dicta, dived, ducat, duvet, edict, educt, evict, tided, vatic, viced, vitae. | |
-5 letters: aced, acid, adit, aide, avid, cade, cadi, caid, cate, cave, cedi, cite, cued, cute, dace, date, daut, dead, deva, dice, died, diet, dita, dite, diva, dive, duad, duce, duci, duct, dude, duet, duit, edit, etic, etui, iced, idea, tace, tide, tied, uvea, vatu, vice, vide, vied, vita. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-d-e-i-t-u-v" | |
+3 letters: adjudicative. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 64 64 75 63 74 69 76 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.. -.. ..- -.-. - .. ...- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100100 01100100 01110101 01100011 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A d d u c t i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0064 0064 0075 0063 0074 0069 0076 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357070876986758871 |
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