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Definition: Adder |
AdderNoun1. A machine or person that adds. 2. Small terrestrial viper common in northern Eurasia. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "adder" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Aerospace | In a computer, a device which can form the sum of two or more numbers or quantities. (references) |
Bible | 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. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of seeing an adder strike, and a friend, who is dead but seems to be lying down and breathing, rises partly to a sitting position when the adder strikes at him, and then both disappearing into some bushes nearby, denotes that you will be greatly distressed over the ill luck of friends, and a loss threatened to yourself. For a young woman to see an adder, foretells a deceitful person is going to cause her trouble. If it runs from her, she will be able to defend her character in attacks made on her. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Electrical Engineering | A device whose output data are a representation of the sum of the quantities represented by its input data. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An adder is a name for the common viper (Vipera cevus), ranging from Wales to Saghalien island, and from Caithness to the north of Spain. The puff-adder (Bitis s. Echidna arietans) of nearly the whole of Africa, and the death-adder (''Acanthophis antarcticus'') from Australia to the Moluccas, are both very poisonous.Etymology: The word was in Old Eng. noedre, later nadder or naddre; in the 14th century a nadder was, like a napron, wrongly divided into an adder. It appears with the generic meaning of serpent in the older forms of many Teutonic languages, cf. Old High Ger. natra; Goth. nadrs. It is thus used in the Old English version of the Christian Scriptures for the devil, the serpent of Genesis. Initial text from 1911 encyclopedia -- Please update as needed An adder is an electronic device that adds three bits. One that adds only two bits is a half-adder.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Adder."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ADDER | English | Automatic digital data-error recorder | N/A |
| ADR | English | Adder | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: AdderSynonym: common viper (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: adr (computing). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Evil doer | Snake, viper, adder, snake in the grass; serpent, cobra, asp, rattlesnake, anaconda. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Adder |
| English words defined with "adder": Acanthophis antarcticus, accumulator, accumulator register, asp, asp viper ♦ death adder ♦ Edder ♦ Hognosesnake ♦ Nadder, Nedder ♦ Plumed adder, Puff adder, puffing adder ♦ River jack ♦ Tanglefish ♦ Vipera aspis. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "adder": algebraic adder ♦ CLEOPATRA ♦ Deaf Adder ♦ sum-bit. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "adder": Ouch. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Adder" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (adder, viper), Dutch (adder, viper). |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Black Adder (1983) | |
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| "Baby adder snack" by hagit Commentary: "Found on our doorstep in Goa, India." |
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| "Adder" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.92% of the time. "Adder" is used about 59 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 94.92% | 56 | 45,296 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.08% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 59 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "adder": adder accumulator ♦ Adder fly ♦ algebraic adder ♦ banded adder ♦ blowing adder ♦ checkered adder ♦ common adder ♦ Death adder ♦ flying adder ♦ full adder ♦ half adder ♦ horned adder ♦ milk adder ♦ plumed adder ♦ puff adder ♦ puffing adder ♦ sea adder ♦ spreading adder ♦ water adder. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "adder": adder-accumulator, adder-land. | |
Ending with "adder": half-adder. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "adder"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | adder (viper). (various references) | |
Albanian | nepërkë (viper), nëpërkë (asp, viper), makinë (car, engine, machine, machinery, motor, motor car, tool). (various references) | |
Arabic | المضيف (entertainer), الضام (joining, retractor, uniting), الجامع (collector, compiler), أفعى (boa, serpent, snake, worm). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | смок, сметачна машина (accumulator, calculating machine, calculator), змия (asp, ophidian, serpent, snake, viper), пепелянка (cerastes, viper). (various references) | |
Chinese | 加法器. (various references) | |
Czech | zmije (cat, viper). (various references) | |
Danish | automatic digital data error recorder (automatic digital data error recorder, automatic digital data-error recorder), additionskredsløb, additionskreds, adder-port, adder. (various references) | |
Dutch | automatische registreerder van digitale datafouten (automatic digital data error recorder, automatic digital data-error recorder), adder (viper), telwerk (counter, register, time switch, timer, totalling device), optelschakeling, opteller (addend, counter, counter unit, summer). (various references) | |
Faeroese | høggormur (viper). (various references) | |
Farsi | مارجعفری , ماشین جمع , افعی (Asp, Python). (various references) | |
Finnish | yhteenlaskin, summain, kyykäärme (viper), digitaalitietovirheen automaattinen tallennin (automatic digital data error recorder, automatic digital data-error recorder). (various references) | |
French | additionneur (addend). (various references) | |
Frisian | njirre (viper). (various references) | |
German | Viper (viper, vipers), Natter (asp, asps, serpent, snake, viper), Kreuzotter (viper), Addierglied, Addierer. (various references) | |
Greek | έχιδνα (viper), προσθετών, αθροιστική μηχανή, αθροιστήσ (totalizator), αθροιστής (summer, totaliser, totalizer). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | nepërkë (viper). (various references) | |
Hebrew | פתן (cobra, viper), אפעה (asp, baselisk, rattlesnake, viper). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vipera (viper), számológép (abacus, calculating machine, calculator, comptometer), összeadó, összeadást végző. (various references) | |
Indonesian | ular berbisa (asp, rattler, viper). (various references) | |
Italian | vipera (viper). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 足し算器 , 蝮 (asp, viper), 真虫 (asp, viper), 加算器 (adding machine), 加算機 (adding machine). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たしざんき, まむし (asp, viper), かさんき (adding machine). (various references) | |
Korean | 덧셈기. (various references) | |
Manx | aernieu (viper), aarnieu (serpent, snake, viper). (various references) | |
Papiamen | vibora (viper). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adderay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | víbora (asp, shrew, viper), cobra (expert, ophidian, serpent, snake, viper), adicionador (summer). (various references) | |
Romanian | viperã (asp, aspic, serpent, snake, viper), sumator (accumulator, adding machine), şarpe-de-casã. (various references) | |
Russian | сумматор (summator), уж (grass snake), гадюка;сумматор, гадюка (asp, viper). (various references) | |
Scottish | nathair (a serpent, serpent, snake). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | guja (ophidian, serpent, snake, viper), šarka (hinge, viper). (various references) | |
Spanish | víbora (serpent, viper), sumador (summer), áspid (asp, aspic, viper). (various references) | |
Swedish | huggorm (viper). (various references) | |
Turkish | engerek (viper). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | доповнення (accompaniment, addenda, addition, adjunct, annex, annexe, appendage, codicil, complement, obverse, refill, tail piece). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người cộng, máy cộng rắn vipe con chuồn chuồn. (various references) | |
Welsh | gwiber (viper). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | aspis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 32 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | To de escaton wsper upo ofewV peplhgwV ekteinetai kai wsper upo kerastou diaceitai autw o ioV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Sed in novissimo mordebit ut coluber et sicut regulus venena diffundet |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | It shal gon in softe, but in the laste it shal bite as a shadewe eddere, and as a kokatrice venymys shal heelden abrod. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 32 |
| Bulgarian | Защото после то хапе като змия, И жили като ехидна. |
| Cebuano | Kay sa katapusan kini magapamaak sama sa bitin, Ug moikos sama sa udto-udto. |
| Chinese | 見 上 節 |
| Croatian | a na kraju ujeda kao zmija i žaca kao guja ljutica. |
| Danish | men bider til sidst som en Slange og spyr sin Gift som en Øgle; |
| Dutch | In zijn einde zal hij als een slang bijten, en steken als een adder. |
| Finnish | Lopulta se puree kuin käärme ja pistää kuin myrkkylisko. |
| French | Il finit par mordre comme un serpent, Et par piquer comme un basilic. |
| German | aber danach beißt er wie eine Schlange und sticht wie eine Otter. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Esok paginya engkau merasa seperti telah dipagut ular berbisa. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Pada kesudahannya patuklah ia seperti ular dan disemburkannya bisanya seperti ular beludak. |
| Italian | finirà con il morderti come un serpente e pungerti come una vipera. |
| Maori | Tona tukunga iho ano he nakahi e ngau ana, koia ano kei te wero a te neke. |
| Norwegian | Til sist biter den som en slange og hugger som en huggorm; |
| Portuguese | No seu fim morderá como a cobra, e como o basilisco picará. |
| Rumanian | dar pe urmq ca un warpe muwcq wi knyeapq ca un basilisc. |
| Russian | ЧРПУМЕДУФЧЙЙ, ЛБЛ ЪНЕК, ПОП ХЛХУЙФ, Й ХЦБМЙФ, ЛБЛ БУРЙД; |
| Spanish | Al fin muerde como serpiente, y envenena como víbora. |
| Swedish | På sistone stinger det ju såsom ormen, och likt basilisken sprutar det gift. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "adder": adders. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "adder": badder, bladder, gadder, gallbladder, gladder, ladder, madder, padder, sadder, stepladder, wadder. (additional references) | |
Words containing "adder": bladderlike, bladdernut, bladdernuts, bladders, bladderwort, bladderworts, bladdery, gadders, gallbladders, laddered, laddering, ladderlike, ladders, madders, padders, stepladders, wadders. (additional references) | |
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"Adder" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Adada, adade, Adaro, adda, addab, Addai, adde, addeb, addel, adden, addere, Adderly, Addey, addi, addio, addr, Addu, Addub, Adea, Adedayo, adedy, adef, adeg, adem, ader, adeu, adew, adex, adher, adir, adre, adred, Adrep, adsr, adve, adver, Adyr, adzer, Agdere, ardeer, arder, ardler, Asdir, audre, awdor, dadar, dador, Daxer, dder, idder, jadder, jader, nadder, padder, Qaddur. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "adder" (pronounced a"der) |
| 3 | a" d er | bladder, ladder, madder, sadder. |
| 2 | -d er | elder, embroider, Ender, engender, Alder, Alexander, ambassador, Ardor, asunder, attainder, auslander, balder, Bander, bandleader, bartender, beholder, bender, bewilder, bidder, binder, birder, blander, blender, blinder, blonder, blunder, boarder, bolder, bondholder, bookbinder, border, boulder, bounder, brander, breeder, broader, builder, bystander, calamander, calendar, camcorder, candor, carder, cardholder, cedar, ceder, Cheddar, cheerleader, chowder, cider, cinder, coder, cofounder, colder, collider, commander, Condor, consider, contender, copyreader, Corder, coriander, corridor, Crowder, crusader, cylinder, deader, decoder, defender, disorder, divider, evader, extender, fader, feeder, Fender, fielder, finder, flounder, fodder, folder, fonder, forwarder, founder, freeholder, freeloader, gallbladder, gander, Gelder, gender, gerrymander, Gilder, girder, glider, Golder, grader, grander, grinder, Guider, guilder, gunpowder, harder, header, Herder, hider, highlander, hinder, Holder, homesteader, householder, infielder, insider, intruder, invader, islander, Kidder, kinder, lader, Lander, landholder, larder, Lauder, launder, lavender, leader, lender, lieder, loader, louder, mainlander, marauder, meander, melder, milder, minder, molder, moulder, murder, nadir, odder, odor, offender, officeholder, older, oleander, order, outfielder, outrider, outsider, pander, pathfinder. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dared, dread, readd. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-r" | |
-1 letter: dare, dead, dear, read, redd. | |
-2 letters: add, are, dad, ear, era, rad, red. | |
-3 letters: ad, ae, ar, de, ed, er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-r" | |
+1 letter: adders, adored, badder, barded, carded, dander, darked, darned, darted, deader, deodar, draped, drayed, dreads, farded, gadder, graded, ladder, larded, madder, padder, radded, raddle, raided, readds, sadder, traded, wadder, warded, yarded. | |
+2 letters: abraded, address, addrest, adducer, adhered, adjured, admired, adorned, arcaded, awarded, bearded, bedward, bladder, boarded, bradded, braided, branded, breaded, cheddar, cradled, danders, dandier, dandler, darkled, dartled, daunder, dawdler, deaired, defraud, degrade, deodara, deodars, derated, diehard, drabbed, drafted, dragged, drained, dramedy, drammed, dratted, drawled, dreaded, dreamed, dryades, dwarfed, faddier, gadders, gladder, guarded, hoarded, ladders, madders, padders, paddler, paraded, raddled, raddles, radioed, readded, readied, redated, redhead, roadbed, saddler, swarded, treaded, wadders, waddler. | |
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