All English words - page 86

Meanings of Adductors:

noun

A muscle whose contraction moves a limb or other part of the body towards the midline of the body or towards another part.

Usage examples:

The adductor muscle group is often a source of pain in these overuse syndromes.

Meanings of Adducts:

verb

(of a muscle) move (a limb or other part of the body) towards the midline of the body or towards another part.

Usage examples:

The main function of pectorals is to adduct the arms

noun

The product of an addition reaction between two compounds.

Usage examples:

A stable, covalent adduct of enzyme and substrate dna results

Meanings of Addy:

noun

An address, especially an email address.

Usage examples:

I just sent you a note from my other addy

Meanings of Ade:

suffix

Forming nouns denoting an action that is completed.

Usage examples:

Barricade

Meanings of Adead:

adjective

Dead.

Meanings of Adeem:

verb

To make ineffective (a specific bequest in a will) by the sale or disposal of the property specifically bequeathed before the death of the testator.

Meanings of Adeemed:

verb

To make ineffective (a specific bequest in a will) by the sale or disposal of the property specifically bequeathed before the death of the testator.

Meanings of Adeeming:

verb

To make ineffective (a specific bequest in a will) by the sale or disposal of the property specifically bequeathed before the death of the testator.

Meanings of Adeems:

verb

To make ineffective (a specific bequest in a will) by the sale or disposal of the property specifically bequeathed before the death of the testator.

Meanings of Adelaide:

proper noun

A city in australia, the capital and chief port of the state of south australia; population 1,172,105 (2008).

Meanings of Adelantado:

noun

The governor of a spanish province, acting as the chief civil and judicial authority, and as military commander-in-chief in time of war; (also) a military leader with the authority to explore, colonize, and govern new territories for the spanish crown.

Meanings of Adelantados:

noun

The governor of a spanish province, acting as the chief civil and judicial authority, and as military commander-in-chief in time of war; (also) a military leader with the authority to explore, colonize, and govern new territories for the spanish crown.

Meanings of Adelaster:

noun

Each of several plants formerly placed in a small genus adelaster but now placed in the genus fittonia (family acanthaceae), comprising small south american plants sold elsewhere as indoor pot plants for their foliage. also (in form adelaster): the former genus itself.

Meanings of Adelite:

noun

A rare arsenic-containing mineral which occurs as colourless to grey or green elongated crystals, often in polycrystalline masses.

Meanings of Adelphi:

noun

Designating plays performed at or in a style characteristic of the adelphi theatre in london, especially (in early use, chiefly in "adelphi screamer") a type of broad comedy or farce; (later) a type of melodrama which was prevalent in the last decades of the 19th century, typically with the dialogue written in a literary rather than natural, conversational style.

Meanings of Adelphogamy:

noun

Marriage between brothers and sisters, especially between several brothers of one family and a woman, or several sisters, of another.

Meanings of Adelpholite:

noun

A mineral containing iron, manganese, niobium, and other elements, subsequently identified with samarskite.

Meanings of Adelphophagy:

noun

The consumption by a developing embryo or larva of eggs, embryos, or larvae from the same brood.

Meanings of Adelphous:

adjective

Of stamens: partially united by their filaments into one or more groups; (also of flowers) having stamens with this arrangement.

Meanings of Ademonist:

noun

A person who denies the existence of the devil.

Meanings of Adempt:

verb

To take away, remove; (law) = adeem . usually in passive.

Meanings of Adempted:

verb

To take away, remove; (law) = adeem . usually in passive.

Meanings of Ademption:

noun

The action or an act of removing or taking something away; (law) the making ineffective of a specific bequest in a will by the sale or disposal of the property specifically bequeathed before the death of the testator.

Meanings of Aden:

proper noun

A port in yemen at the mouth of the red sea; population 588,900 (est. 2004). aden was formerly under british rule, first as part of british india (from 1839), then from 1935 as a crown colony. it was capital of the former south yemen from 1967 until 1990.

Meanings of Adendritic:

adjective

Of a cell: lacking dendrites.