6-letter words starting with ad
- ad hoc — An ad hoc activity or organization is done or formed only because a situation has made it necessary and is not planned in advance.
- ad out — receiver's advantage
- ad rem — to the point; without digression
- ad seg — administrative segregation.
- ad-lib — If you ad-lib something in a play or a speech, you say something which has not been planned or written beforehand.
- ada 83 — (language) The original Ada, as opposed to Ada 95.
- ada 95 — (language) A revision and extension of Ada (Ada 83) begun in 1988 and completed on 1994-12-01 by a team lead by Tucker Taft of Intermetrics. Chris Anderson was the Project Manager. The printed standard was expected to be available around 1995-02-15. Additions include object-orientation (tagged types, abstract types and class-wide types), hierarchical libraries and synchronisation with shared data (protected types) similar to Orca. It lacks multiple inheritance but supports the construction of multiple inheritance type hierarchies through the use of generics and type composition. You can get the standard from the Ada Joint Program Office.
- ada 9x — (language) The working title for Ada 95 before its adoption as an ISO standard.
- adabas — (database) A relational database system by Software AG. While it was initially designed for large IBM mainframe systems (e.g. S/370 in the late 1970s), it has been ported to numerous other platforms over the last few years such as several flavors of Unix including AIX. ADABAS stores its data in tables (and is thus "relational") but also uses some non-relational techniques, such as multiple values and periodic groups.
- adages — a traditional saying expressing a common experience or observation; proverb.
- adagio — Adagio written above a piece of music means that it should be played slowly.
- adamas — Admah.
- adamic — pertaining to or suggestive of Adam.
- adamov — Arthur. 1908–70, French dramatist, born in Russia: one of the foremost exponents of the Theatre of the Absurd. His plays include Le Professeur Taranne (1953), Le Ping-Pong (1955), and Le Printemps '71 (1960)
- adance — Dancing.
- adapid — (zoology) Any member of the Adapidae.
- adapts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adapt.
- add in — If you add in something, you include it as a part of something else.
- add on — If one thing is added on to another, it is attached to the other thing, or is made a part of it.
- add up — If facts or events do not add up, they make you confused about a situation because they do not seem to be consistent. If something that someone has said or done adds up, it is reasonable and sensible.
- add-in — Journalism. copy added to a completed story.
- add-on — a device or unit added to equipment or a construction: an add-on to a computer; a nice add-on to an old house.
- addams — Jane. 1860–1935, US social reformer, feminist, and pacifist, who founded Hull House, a social settlement in Chicago: Nobel peace prize 1931
- addeem — to declare or determine, esp judicially
- addend — any of a set of numbers that is to be added
- adders — Plural form of adder.
- addeth — Archaic third-person singular form of add.
- addict — An addict is someone who takes harmful drugs and cannot stop taking them.
- adding — an act or instance of addition
- addled — If you describe someone as addled, you mean that they are confused or unable to think properly.
- addles — mentally confused; muddled.
- addoom — to declare or determine, esp judicially
- adduce — If you adduce something such as a fact or reason, you mention it in order to support an argument.
- adduct — (of a muscle) to draw or pull (a leg, arm, etc) towards the median axis of the body
- adeno- — gland or glandular
- adenyl — a derivative of adenine
- adepts — Plural form of adept.
- adhere — If you adhere to an opinion or belief, you support or hold it.
- adient — tending to move toward a stimulus.
- adieus — the act of leaving or departing; farewell.
- adieux — the act of leaving or departing; farewell.
- adighe — Adygei.
- adipic — (organic chemistry) Pertaining to, or derived from, fatty or oily substances; applied to certain acids obtained from fats by the action of nitric acid.
- adipsy — Archaic form of adipsia.
- aditus — The entrance to a cavity or channel.
- aditya — one of the Vedic gods, the sons of Aditi.
- adject — (obsolete) To annex.
- adjigo — a yam plant, Dioscorea hastifolia, native to SW Australia that has edible tubers
- adjoin — If one room, place, or object adjoins another, they are next to each other.
- adjure — to command, often by exacting an oath; charge
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