Pronunciations
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/ˈædɚ/
Pronunciation notes
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Noun
Any snake.
Usage- Obsolete
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CALIBAN: His spirits hear me, / And yet I needs must curse. But they'll nor pinch / Fright me with urchin-shows, pitch me i'th' mire, / Nor lead me like a firebrand in the dark / Out of my way, unless he bid 'em; but / For every trifle are they set upon me, / Sometimes like apes that mow and chatter at me, / And after bite me; then like hedgehogs, which / Lie tumbling in my barefoot way, and mount / Their pricks at my footfall; sometimes am I / All wound with adders, who with their cloven tongues / Do hiss me into madness—
A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling a viper. A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera
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Entirely filled with the image of another, her heart, indeed, had the deaf ear of the adder, which heedeth not the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely.
These include the county's [Cumbria's] only venomous snake - the adder - which relies on exposed elements to successfully breed its young.
A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling a viper. A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera A common European adder (Vipera berus).
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A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling a viper. A puff adder, of Africa (genus Bitis).
A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling a viper. Any of several small nonvenomous snakes resembling adders A milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum).
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A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling a viper. Any of several small nonvenomous snakes resembling adders A hog-nosed snake, of genus Heterodon of harmless colubrid snakes found in North America
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A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling a viper. Certain venomous snakes resembling other adders Death adders (Acanthophis spp.), elapid snakes found in Southeast Asia and Australia
A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling a viper. Certain venomous snakes resembling other adders A northern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen), a venomous viper found in the eastern United States
A sea stickleback or adder fish (Spinachia spinachia).
Noun
Someone who or something which performs arithmetic addition; a machine for adding numbers.
An electronic device that adds voltages, currents or frequencies.
Something which adds or increases.
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They sought out cost adders with an eye toward eliminating them.
Noun
a person who adds numbers
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a machine that adds numbers
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small terrestrial viper common in northern Eurasia
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