English words starting with ad

Meanings of Ad:

noun

An advertisement.

Usage examples:

The latest television lager ad

prefix

Denoting motion or direction to.

Usage examples:

Advance

suffix

(forming nouns) in collective numerals.

Usage examples:

Myriad

abbreviation

Anno domini (used to indicate that a date comes the specified number of years after the traditional date of christ's birth).

Meanings of Ad hoc:

idiom

For or concerned with one specific purpose

adverb

When necessary or needed.

Usage examples:

The group was constituted ad hoc

adjective

Created or done for a particular purpose as necessary.

Usage examples:

The discussions were on an ad hoc basis

Meanings of Ad hominem:

idiom

Appealing to personal considerations rather than to reason

adjective

(of an argument or reaction) directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining.

Usage examples:

An ad hominem response

adverb

In a way that is directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining.

Usage examples:

These points come from some of our best information sources, who realize they'll be attacked ad hom…

Meanings of Ad lib:

verb

To do something without preparation or planning

Usage examples:

[ i ] she had lost her notes, so she ad-libbed for ten minutes., i did not want to give an ad-lib s…

adverb

Said without any preparation or practice

Usage examples:

I'd forgotten the notes for my speech so i had to do it ad lib.

Meanings of Ad-hocery:

noun

The practice of reacting to what happens or is needed at a particular time, rather than planning in a way that suits all possible situations

Usage examples:

The government cannot continue to get away with ad hockery in response to local transport needs.

Meanings of Ad-libbing:

Present participle of ad-lib

Meanings of Ada:

noun

A high-level computer programming language used chiefly in real-time computerized control systems, e.g. for aircraft navigation.

Usage examples:

The gnat compiler from ada core technologies allowed a seamless and fluid transition from linux to …

Meanings of Adactyl:

adjective

= adactylous .

Meanings of Adactylous:

adjective

Of a vertebrate or vertebrate limb: without fingers or toes. of a crustacean limb: without claws.

Meanings of Adage:

noun

A proverb or short statement expressing a general truth.

Usage examples:

The old adage ‘out of sight out of mind’

Meanings of Adages:

noun

A proverb or short statement expressing a general truth.

Usage examples:

The old adage ‘out of sight out of mind’

Meanings of Adagial:

adjective

Of the nature of an adage; proverbial.

Meanings of Adagietto:

adjective

Of tempo: slow, but faster than adagio.

noun

A short adagio movement.

Meanings of Adagiettos:

adjective

Of tempo: slow, but faster than adagio.

noun

A short adagio movement.

Meanings of Adagio:

adverb

(especially as a direction) in slow time.

Usage examples:

The music is played adagio with very slight dynamic change

adjective

Performed in slow time.

Usage examples:

The beautiful adagio ending of the piece was just too loud

noun

A movement, passage, or composition marked to be performed adagio.

Usage examples:

The striking thing about this album is the range of styles he dabbles in - from grand bossa novas t…

Meanings of Adagios:

noun

A movement, passage, or composition marked to be performed adagio.

Usage examples:

The striking thing about this album is the range of styles he dabbles in - from grand bossa novas t…

adverb

(especially as a direction) in slow time.

Usage examples:

The music is played adagio with very slight dynamic change

adjective

Performed in slow time.

Usage examples:

The beautiful adagio ending of the piece was just too loud

Meanings of Adam:

proper noun

(in the biblical and koranic traditions) the name of the first man. according to the book of genesis, adam was created by god as the progenitor of the human race and lived with eve in the garden of eden.

noun

A character in the bible who was the first man made by god

Meanings of Adamant:

adjective

Refusing to be persuaded or to change one's mind.

Usage examples:

He is adamant that he is not going to resign

noun

A legendary rock or mineral to which many properties were attributed, formerly associated with diamond or lodestone.

Usage examples:

As for the magical metal, asiceton, it sounds like adamant.

Meanings of Adamantean:

adjective

Having the hardness or strength of adamant; = "adamantine".

Meanings of Adamantine:

adjective

Unable to be broken.

Usage examples:

Adamantine chains

Meanings of Adamantinoma:

noun

Originally: a tumour of odontogenic epithelial cells (adamantoblasts) occurring in the jaws; = ameloblastoma (now rare). in later use: a tumour with a similar histological appearance occurring especially in the tibia.

Meanings of Adamantly:

adverb

In a way that suggests one will not be persuaded to change one's mind; firmly and resolutely.

Usage examples:

The white house adamantly denied any involvement

Meanings of Adamantoid:

adjective

Of a molecule: having a structure similar to that of adamantane.

Meanings of Adamas:

noun

A very hard substance mentioned by pliny and other classical writers, variously identified. formerly also (without reference to classical writers): †a diamond (obsolete).

Meanings of Adambulacral:

adjective

In echinoderms: adjacent to the ambulacra.

noun

An adambulacral plate or ossicle.