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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: adrip - ad valorem</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="adrip"> adrip, adjective, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> dripping. Ex. ... oars adrip with silver foam (Atlantic Monthly). </DL> <A NAME="adroit"> adroit, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. having or showing skill in using the mind; resourceful in reaching one's objective; ingenious; clever. Ex. A good teacher is adroit in asking questions. But this adroit defence failed to make any impression upon Victoria (Lytton Strachey). <DD> 2. having or showing skill in the use of the hands or the body; skillful. Ex. Monkeys are adroit climbers. (SYN) deft. adv. adroitly. noun adroitness. </DL> <A NAME="adroite"> a droite,<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) to or on the right. </DL> <A NAME="adroop"> adroop, adjective, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> drooping. Ex. Her neck adroop, she last let go her spear (J. D. Long). </DL> <A NAME="adry"> adry, adjective, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) dry; thirsty. </DL> <A NAME="ads"> ads.,<DL COMPACT><DD> advertisements. </DL> <A NAME="adscititious"> adscititious, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> added or derived from outside; supplemental; additional. Ex. adscititious customs alien to the tribe. (SYN) adventitious, extrinsic. adv. adscititiously. </DL> <A NAME="adscript"> adscript, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> written after (distinguished from subscript and superscript). Ex. an adscript letter or character. </DL> <A NAME="adscription"> adscription, noun. =ascription.</DL> <A NAME="adsorb"> adsorb, transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to take up and hold (a gas, liquid, or dissolved substance) spread out on the surface in a thin layer of molecules. Ex. Dyes are adsorbed on the fibers of cloth. Consider what happens when a clean surface, e.g., of metal, is exposed to a gas. It has been shown that even a liquid mercury surface rapidly collects a film one molecule thick, a so-called adsorbed layer (P. R. Rowland). </DL> <A NAME="adsorbability"> adsorbability, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the condition or quality of being adsorbable. </DL> <A NAME="adsorbable"> adsorbable, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be adsorbed. </DL> <A NAME="adsorbate"> adsorbate, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> anything that is adsorbed. </DL> <A NAME="adsorbent"> adsorbent, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. adsorbing readily. <DD>noun a substance that adsorbs readily. </DL> <A NAME="adsorption"> adsorption, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the process of adsorbing; condensation of gases, liquids, or dissolved substances on the surface of solids. <DD> 2. the condition of being adsorbed. </DL> <A NAME="adsorptive"> adsorptive, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. of or having to do with adsorption. <DD> 2. able to adsorb. </DL> <A NAME="adsukibean"> adsuki bean, =adzuki bean.</DL> <A NAME="adsum"> adsum,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) I am here (formerly a student's answer to a roll call). </DL> <A NAME="adsummum"> ad summum,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) to the highest point or degree. </DL> <A NAME="adularia"> adularia, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a transparent or translucent variety of feldspar. Moonstone is opalescent adularia. </DL> <A NAME="adulate"> adulate, transitive verb, -lated, -lating.<DL COMPACT><DD> to praise too much; flatter slavishly. Ex. What is there to adulate in me! Am I particularly intelligent? (W. S. Gilbert). noun adulator. </DL> <A NAME="adulation"> adulation, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> too much praise; slavish flattery. Ex. Adulation ever follows the ambitious (Oliver Goldsmith). </DL> <A NAME="adulatory"> adulatory, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> characterized by adulation; praising too much; flattering slavishly. Ex. Poujade's own public meetings, held before packed houses of adulatory listeners, were well-disciplined affairs (Harper's). </DL> <A NAME="adult"> adult, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. having full size and strength; full-grown; fully developed; grown-up. Ex. an adult person, an adult animal or plant. (SYN) mature. <DD> 2. of, for, or by grown-up people. Ex. adult books, adult behavior. <DD>noun 1a. a person who has reached full growth and development; grown-up person. Ex. Try to behave like an adult. Children want and need adults to set the reasonable limits of their innovating, exploring, and rebelling (Saturday Review). <DD> b. a person who has reached an age of maturity as defined by law, usually the age of 18, sometimes the age of 21. Ex. Adults must accept full responsibility for their actions. <DD> 2. a plant or animal grown to full size and strength. adv. adultly. noun adultness. </DL> <A NAME="adulteducation"> adult education,<DL COMPACT><DD> education for adults in academic, vocational, or recreational subjects, offered (usually at night) in schools and colleges, or by correspondence. Ex. Adult education has come a long way from the time when its primary concerns were to teach immigrants to speak English (Time). </DL> <A NAME="adulterant"> adulterant, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a substance used to adulterate something, especially something that destroys purity or quality without greatly altering appearance. <DD>adj. adulterating. </DL> <A NAME="adulterate"> adulterate, verb, -ated, -ating, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.t. to add an inferior, impure, or improper substance to; lower the purity or quality of (food, drugs, or other substances) without greatly altering the appearance to increase in bulk or quantity. Ex. It is against the law to adulterate milk with water. (SYN) corrupt, debase. <DD>adj. 1. debased by adulteration; adulterated. (SYN) spurious, counterfeit. <DD> 2. =adulterous. noun adulterator. </DL> <A NAME="adulteration"> adulteration, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the act or process of adulterating. Ex. We have laws against the adulteration of coffee and tea. (SYN) debasement. <DD> 2. an adulterated substance; product that has been adulterated. </DL> <A NAME="adulterer"> adulterer, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person, especially a man, who commits adultery. </DL> <A NAME="adulteress"> adulteress, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a woman who commits adultery. </DL> <A NAME="adulterine"> adulterine, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. born of adultery. <DD> 2. of or involving adultery. <DD> 3. adulterated or spurious. <DD> 4. (Historical.) illegal; unlicensed. </DL> <A NAME="adulterous"> adulterous, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. committing adultery. <DD> 2. having to do with adultery. <DD> 3. (Archaic.) spurious. adv. adulterously. </DL> <A NAME="adultery"> adultery, noun, pl. -teries.<DL COMPACT><DD> unfaithfulness of a married man to his wife or of his wife to him; voluntary sexual intercourse by a married man with a woman not his wife, or by a married woman with a man not her husband. </DL> <A NAME="adulthood"> adulthood, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the condition or time of being an adult. Ex. The adolescent peer group ... occupies the stage between childhood dependence on parents and the social responsibilities of adulthood (Listener). </DL> <A NAME="adultwestern"> adult Western,<DL COMPACT><DD> a story, motion picture, or television play having a Western theme, and designed to appeal to an adult audience. </DL> <A NAME="adumbral"> adumbral, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> giving shade; shady. </DL> <A NAME="adumbrant"> adumbrant, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> showing in outline; shadowing forth; adumbrating. </DL> <A NAME="adumbrate"> adumbrate, transitive verb, -brated, -brating.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. to indicate faintly; outline; sketch. Ex. One may adumbrate a few generic traits, though each has many exceptions (Harper's). (SYN) suggest. <DD> 2. to foreshadow. (SYN) typify, symbolize. <DD> 3. to overshadow; obscure. (SYN) darken. noun adumbration. </DL> <A NAME="adumbrative"> adumbrative, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> faintly indicating or typifying. adv. adumbratively. </DL> <A NAME="adunc"> adunc, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> bent or curved inward; hooked. Ex. an adunc bill, beak, or nose. </DL> <A NAME="aduncous"> aduncous, adjective. =adunc.</DL> <A NAME="adunguem"> ad unguem,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) <DD> 1. to a nicety. <DD> 2. (literally) to a fingernail (as work brought to the final touch or test with the fingernail). </DL> <A NAME="adurol"> adurol, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a crystalline substance produced from hydroquinone, used as a photographic developer. </DL> <A NAME="adust"> adust, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. burned. Ex. adust by the sun; (Figurative.) adust with rage. <DD> 2. parched; dried by heat; Ex. adust air. <DD> 3. sunburned. Ex. an adust complexion. <DD> 4. (Figurative.) gloomy; melancholy; Ex. an adus temperament. </DL> <A NAME="adutrumqueparatus"> ad utrumque paratus,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) prepared for either alternative. </DL> <A NAME="adv"> adv.,<DL COMPACT><DD> an abbreviation for the following: <DD> 1. ad valorem. <DD> 2. adverb. <DD> 3. advertisement. <DD> 4. against (Latin, adversus). </DL> <A NAME="adv"> Adv.,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. Advent. <DD> 2. advocate (lawyer). </DL> <A NAME="adval"> ad val.,<DL COMPACT><DD> ad valorem. </DL> <A NAME="advalorem"> ad valorem,<DL COMPACT><DD> (of taxes, import duties, or other fees) levied in proportion to the certified value of the merchandise or goods. Ex. Ad valorem imports are those goods and materials on which the duty permitting them to enter this country is calculated on their value abroad (New York Times). <DL COMPACT><DD> (Abbr:) ad val. </DL> </DL> <A HREF="advance.dic">NEXT</A>