adder

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˈædɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any snake. obsolete
    — CALIBAN: His spirits hear me, / And yet I needs must curse. But they'll nor pinch / Fright me with urchin-shows, pitch me i'th' mire, / Nor lead me like a firebrand in the dark / Out of my way, unless he bid 'em; but / For every trifle are they set upon me, / Sometimes like apes that mow and chatter at me, / And after bite me; then like hedgehogs, which / Lie tumbling in my barefoot way, and mount / Their pricks at my footfall; sometimes am I / All wound with adders, who with their cloven tongues / Do hiss me into madness—
  2. Someone who or something which performs arithmetic addition; a machine for adding numbers.
  3. A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling a viper.; A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera UK
    — Entirely filled with the image of another, her heart, indeed, had the deaf ear of the adder, which heedeth not the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely.
  4. An electronic device that adds voltages, currents or frequencies.
  5. A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling a viper.; A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera; A common European adder (Vipera berus). UK
  6. Something which adds or increases.
    — They sought out cost adders with an eye toward eliminating them.
  7. A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling a viper.; A puff adder, of Africa (genus Bitis).
  8. A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling a viper.; Any of several small nonvenomous snakes resembling adders; A milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum). Canada,US
  9. A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling a viper.; Any of several small nonvenomous snakes resembling adders; A hog-nosed snake, of genus Heterodon of harmless colubrid snakes found in North America Canada,US
  10. A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling a viper.; Certain venomous snakes resembling other adders; Death adders (Acanthophis spp.), elapid snakes found in Southeast Asia and Australia
  11. A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling a viper.; Certain venomous snakes resembling other adders; A northern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen), a venomous viper found in the eastern United States
  12. A sea stickleback or adder fish (Spinachia spinachia).

词形变化

adders plural edder alternative,dialectal adders plural

词汇关系

衍生词
adder bead adderbolt adder fish adder fly adderlike adder mouth adder stone adderwort butterfly adder common death adder deaf adder death adder Gaboon adder hissing adder horned adder Kimberley death adder night adder pit adder pit-adder puff adder sea adder water adder adder-subtractor carry-lookahead adder carry-save adder carry-skip adder full adder half adder

词源

词源 1
From Middle English nadder, addere, rebracketing of “a naddere” as “an addere”, from Old English nǣdre (“snake”), from Proto-West Germanic *nadrā, from Proto-Germanic *nadrǭ, from pre-Germanic *néh₁treh₂, variant of Proto-Indo-European *n̥h₁trih₂, from *(s)neh₁- (“to spin, twist”).
See also West Frisian njirre, Dutch adder, German Natter, Otter; also Welsh neidr, Latin natrīx (“watersnake”), Dutch naaien.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English add
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English adder
From add + -er.
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