Adder Definition

ădər
adders
noun
adders
One that adds, especially a computational device that performs arithmetic addition.
American Heritage
One who adds.
Webster's New World
An adding machine.
Webster's New World
A computer circuit that performs addition.
Webster's New World
A small, poisonous snake of Europe; common viper (Vipera berus)
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Adder

Noun

Singular:
adder
Plural:
adders

Origin of Adder

  • From Middle English addere, misdivision of naddere, from Old English nǣdre, nǣddre (“snake, serpent, viper, adder”), from Proto-Germanic *nēdrǭ, *nadrǭ (“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.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from an addre alteration of a naddre a snake from Old English nǣdre snake

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • add + -er.

    From Wiktionary

Adder Sentence Examples

  • Five rather common species are certainly deadly - the death adder, the brown, the black, the superb and the tiger snakes.

  • Snakes are common, an adder, a variegated rock snake and a Hadramut with forty followers about the 13th century.

  • This name is twice translated "adder," but as nothing is told of it beyond its poisonous character and the intractability of its disposition, it is impossible accurately to determine the species.

  • Of serpents there are only two poisonous kinds, the common viper and the adder (Kreuzotter).

  • The constructions include an adder, a sliding block memory, a memory cell and many more fascinating parts.

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Words Starting With

AADADD

Words Ending With

RERDER

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