| addax | (noun) large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of northern Africa | Synonyms: Addax nasomaculatus |
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| addend | (noun) a number that is added to another number (the augend) | - |
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| addendum | (noun) textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end | Synonyms: postscript, supplement |
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| adder | (noun) small terrestrial viper common in northern Eurasia | Synonyms: common viper, Vipera berus |
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| (noun) a machine that adds numbers | - |
| (noun) a person who adds numbers | - |
| addict | (noun) someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance or activity | - |
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| (noun) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction | Synonyms: freak, junkie, junky, nut |
| addiction | (noun) (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 | - |
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| (noun) an abnormally strong craving | - |
| (noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: dependance, dependence, dependency, habituation |
| addition | (noun) the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers | Synonyms: plus, summation |
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| (noun) the act of adding one thing to another | - |
| (noun) a component that is added to something to improve it | Synonyms: add-on, improver |
| (noun) a suburban area laid out in streets and lots for a future residential area | - |
| (noun) something added to what you already have | Synonyms: accession |
| (noun) a quantity that is added | Synonyms: gain, increase |
| additive | (noun) something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine | - |
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| addlehead | (noun) a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought | Synonyms: addle-head, birdbrain, loon |
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| address | (noun) the ability to do or say what is appropriate for the occasion | Synonyms: savoir-faire |
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| (noun) the stance assumed by a golfer in preparation for hitting a golf ball | - |
| (noun) the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience | Synonyms: speech |
| (noun) a sign in front of a house or business carrying the conventional form by which its location is described | - |
| (noun) written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location | Synonyms: destination, name and address |
| (noun) the manner of speaking to another individual | - |
| (noun) (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored | Synonyms: computer address, reference |
| (noun) the place where a person or organization can be found or communicated with | - |
| addressee | (noun) one to whom something is addressed | - |
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| adducer | (noun) a discussant who offers an example or a reason or a proof | - |
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| adducing | (noun) citing as evidence or proof | - |
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| adduct | (noun) a compound formed by an addition reaction | - |
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| adduction | (noun) (physiology) moving of a body part toward the central axis of the body | - |
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| adductor | (noun) a muscle that draws a body part toward the median line | Synonyms: adductor muscle |
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