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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One that adds, especially a computational device that performs arithmetic addition.
  2. n. See viper.
  3. n. Any of several nonvenomous snakes, such as the milk snake of North America, popularly believed to be harmful.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The popular English name of the viper, Vipera communis, now Pelias berus, a common venomous serpent of Europe (and the only poisonous British reptile), belonging to the family Viperidæ, of the suborder Solenoglypha, of the order Ophidia. It grows to a length of about 2 feet, of which the tail constitutes one eighth; the head is oval, with a blunt snout; the color varies from brown or olive to brownish-yellow, variegated with a row of large confluent rhombic spots along the middle line of the back, and a row of small black or blackish spots on each side. Though the adder is venomous, its bite is not certainly known to be fatal.
  2. n. A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling the viper, Pelias berus: as By the translators of the authorized version of the Bible, to several different species of venomous serpents.
  3. n. The sea-stickleback or adder-fish. See adder-fish.
  4. n. One who adds.
  5. n. An instrument for performing addition.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Someone who or something which performs arithmetic addition.
  2. n. Something which adds or increases.
  3. n. obsolete A snake.
  4. n. A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling the viper; a viper.
  5. n. chiefly UK A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera. The common European adder is the Vipera berus. The puff adders of Africa are species of the genus Oecobius.
  6. n. US, Canada Any of several small nonvenomous snakes resembling the adder, such as the milk snake.
  7. n. The sea-stickleback or adder-fish.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One who, or that which, adds; esp., a machine for adding numbers.
  2. n. obsolete A serpent.
  3. n. A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera. The common European adder is the Vipera berus or Pelias berus. The puff adders of Africa are species of Clotho.
  4. n. In America, the term is commonly applied to several harmless snakes, as the milk adder, puffing adder, etc.
  5. n. Same as Sea Adder.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a machine that adds numbers
  2. n. a person who adds numbers
  3. n. small terrestrial viper common in northern Eurasia

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English addere, misdivision of naddere, from Old English nǣdre, nǣddre ("snake, serpent, viper, adder"), from Proto-Germanic *nēdrōn, *nadrōn (“snake, viper”) (compare West Frisian njirre, Dutch adder, German Natter, Otter), from pre-Germanic *néh₁treh₂, variant of Proto-Indo-European *nh₁trih₂ (compare Welsh neidr, Latin natrīx ‘watersnake’), from *sneh₁- (“to spin, twist”) (compare Dutch naaien). More at needle. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from an addre, alteration of a naddre, a snake, from Old English nǣdre, snake. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “The puff adder is a short, thick viper that is responsible for more bites than any other serpent in Africa.”

    Puff This!

  • “(Then tell LiveJournal that their link adder is borked.)”

    Go read

  • “Ok.. my tag adder is updated for the restyled BlogThis!”

    Blogger Blogthis! Upgrade - Freshblog

  • “I just added support for Blog This! in my tag adder user script.”

    Blogger Blogthis! Upgrade - Freshblog

  • “One of them played with a litter of young hares; another ran a race with some young crows, which had hopped from their nest before they were really ready; a third caught up an adder from the ground and wound it around his neck and arm.”

    The Girl from the Marsh Croft

  • “The word adder occurs five times in the text of the Authorized”

    Smith's Bible Dictionary

  • “Add-er-all makes you a human calculator; "addict" is in there, also "adder" -- you become a regular viper . . . anyway, it sounds like bipolar people's description of mania.”

    Are you taking drugs to enhance your intellectual performance?

  • “So soon therefore as they saw my face they ran again into the mouth of their dam, whom I killed, and then found each of them shrouded in a distinct cell or pannicle in her belly, much like unto a soft white jelly, which maketh me to be of the opinion that our adder is the viper indeed.”

    Of Savage Beasts and Vermin. Chapter XIV. [1577, Book III., Chapters 7 and 12; 1587, Book III., Chapters 4 and 6

  • “As I brought it into the light, I saw that it was a black variety of the puff adder, which is among the most poisonous serpents of Africa.”

    In the Wilds of Africa

  • “This means that a simple "adder", a logic array that adds two integers together, will no longer have just the logic needed to perform the addition, but a significant amount of additional logic to perform a simultaneous ECC for the entire operation.”

    More on Moore's Law

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  • knitandpurl "With adder, the 'n-swapping' went the other way round. Old English a nadder became an adder."
    -By Hook or By Crook by David Crystal, p 93
    Dec 15, 2008

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