(n.) One who, or that which, adds; esp., a machine for adding numbers.
(n.) A serpent.
(n.) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera. The common European adder is the Vipera (/ Pelias) berus. The puff adders of Africa are species of Clotho.
(n.) In America, the term is commonly applied to several harmless snakes, as the milk adder, puffing adder, etc.
(n.) Same as Sea Adder.
Example Sentences:
(1) The gamma-chain from puff adder venom digested D-monomer was isolated and cleaved by cyanogen bromide, and the carboxy-terminal peptide was isolated and sequenced.
(2) While antivenom remains the mainstay in the treatment of snake-bite envenomation, the possible role of anticholinesterase therapy for death-adder bites in Papua New Guinea is discussed.
(3) Total polyadenylated messenger RNA was prepared from the milked venom glands of the South African puff adder (Bitis arietans) and translated in an in vitro translation system.
(4) Rabbits were injected with double the lethal dose of puff adder venom, followed by treatment with the Venom Ex cutting and suction apparatus.
(5) In a retrospective study, 113 bites which occurred in Switzerland within a 16-year period by either of the two indigenous adders (Vipera berus and Vipera aspis) were analyzed.
(6) Brown snakes (genus Pseudonaja) were responsible for 11 deaths; tiger snake (Notechus scutatus) for four, taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus) two and death adder (Acanthophis australis) one.
(7) Anya was like, Adder actually, and Mary Portas was like, now move on ladies, what matters is that Britfash is facing its biggest crisis since Cherie Blair went out with a matching Burberry tote and booties?
(8) Adding ATP (1 mM) to myosin B suspension and mixing was carried out by hand, using a mixing plunger, and also using the automatic adder mixer.
(9) Two cases of children who suffered adder bites and who developed severe local complications are reported.
(10) Plasma and serum samples obtained from various animals never previously exposed to snakes or snake venom were diffused against different concentrations of puff-adder, Bitis arietans, venom using the double immunodiffusion technique.
(11) Northern blot hybridization of total puff adder venom gland mRNA to its complementary single stranded copy DNA revealed two discrete mRNA populations coding for the major components of puff adder venom.
(12) The first two snakes are common in the region, while amateur herpetologists are at particular risk of being bitten by burrowing adders because of the snake's ability to bite even when held by the back of the neck.
(13) We roam over sand hills knotted with marram grass and wildflowers, singing in case we disturb sunbathing adders, imagining Tarka ducking in and out of warrens.
(14) You may find bitterns making their basso profundo hoot, or you could see otters, dragonflies and adders.
(15) Gastrointestinal symptoms are the most common systemic manifestations of adder envenomation.
(16) The products of cell free synthesis were immunoprecipitable with puff adder venom antiserum.
(17) Salmonella excretion was found in 59% of the adders and in 68% of the grass-snakes.
(18) A young, previously healthy man had severe abdominal symptoms after an adder bite.
(19) On the basis of statistical analysis, the following proteins were found to be members of the cystatin superfamily: human cystatin A, rat cystatin A(alpha), human cystatin B, rat cystatin B(beta), rice cystatin, human cystatin C, ox colostrum cystatin, human cystatin S, human cystatin SA, human cystatin SN, chicken cystatin, puff adder cystatin, human kininogen, ox kininogen, rat kininogen, rat T-kininogens 1 and 2, human alpha 2HS-glycoprotein, and human histidine-rich glycoprotein.
(20) The amino acid sequence of a cystatin from the venom of the African puff adder (Bitis arietans) is reported.
Sadder
Definition:
(n.) Same as Sadda.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sight of a child's toy bike on a shelf in the kitchen made me sadder than the rocket damage.
(2) It sometimes evoked sadder emotions but it was always visually pleasing.
(3) No political career could be sadder than that of a man who, having leap-frogged into the cabinet over the ministers of state above him, is, 20 years later, voted, "12th most effective backbencher".
(4) What makes their plight even sadder is that most have no idea what sort of country they’re entering.
(5) It's an unrequited love story between the chimp and the star, but there's something about the abasement in that relationship (like, it's not just unrequited … one of them is a chimp) that purifies the tragedy, makes everything less mediated and much sadder.
(6) It's hard to think of a sadder and more brutal undoing of such a high-profile image than what has happened to Lawson.
(7) "No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favour with some Americans by castigating others," Daniels said.
(8) There are few kitchen sights sadder than a deep-tin drizzle cake which is sodden on top with a bone dry bottom.
(9) However, volunteers were sadder, more discouraged, and less interested in others than clinic patients.
(10) His own life would have been sadder if the wellspring of laughter inside him had not run so deep.
(11) As it happens, another half-century anniversary will take place next month, one also involving an American woman, but of a much sadder shade: on 11 February it will be 50 years since Sylvia Plath took her life and gained immortality.
(12) And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires.
(13) One final idea, if you'll bear with me, is that perhaps Jimmy Carr exists to remind us of the jokes that have been crushed for years under the feminine jackboot of political correctness: witness, in the same show, his triumphant resurrection of, "There's nothing sadder than a woman with two black eyes.
(14) Older, sadder and wiser, they were there to demonstrate that they get voter concerns about petrol prices and school standards (Basildon's troubled academies are front page news in the Echo), manufacturing and help for remote regions (Essex?).
(15) He described himself as sad after his dire local elections, but Nick Clegg looks considerably sadder today.
(16) The depressed patients were sadder and complained of more loss of libido than did the anxious patients.
(17) What made it all the sadder was the fact he was nice, decent and humane.
(18) "Splosh" fetishists are typically somewhat sadder creatures than these – the whole thing smacks abjectly of the nursery – but Linder and friend looked like glamorous aliens or a kind of deconstructed Leigh Bowery .
(19) You certainly come back out on to the street sadder and wiser than when you entered.
(20) There have been fewer sadder spectacles than the calm, academic Bernanke explaining to a room of incredulous reporters why the Fed did not take more extreme action to "save" the economy and goose the markets.