📖 A — The English dictionary · page 13

adherence — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) Adherence is sticking closely to a rule, plan, belief or agreement and following it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Adherence is also the act of sticking physically to something.↗ Example: The school expects adherence to its uniform rules.↗ · Strict adherence to safety rules keeps the lab safe.↗ · Adherence to medicine is important for getting better.↗ · The team's adherence to the plan won the match.↗ · Their adherence to tradition is strong.↗ · The glue's adherence to plastic is poor.↗

adhesion — Everyday, meaning 1: Adhesion is the sticking of one thing to another.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) Adhesion is the force that makes different substances cling together, like water droplets on glass.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (medicine, an adhesion, adhesions) An adhesion is tissue inside the body that sticks parts together after an operation or injury.↗ Example: Glue works by adhesion.↗ · Water drops stay on the window because of adhesion.↗ · Wet roads reduce the adhesion of tyres.↗ · Sticky notes have weak adhesion so you can peel them off.↗ · Adhesion helps water move up plant stems.↗ · The tape lost its adhesion in the rain.↗

adhesive — Everyday, meaning 1: An adhesive is a substance like glue that makes things stick together.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Adhesive means sticky; able to stick to things.↗ Example: Use a strong adhesive to stick wood.↗ · PVA is a white adhesive used in schools.↗ · Put a self-adhesive label on your book.↗ · The adhesive bandage covered the cut.↗ · This tape is not very adhesive any more.↗ · Some adhesives are dangerous to breathe in.↗ · Let the adhesive dry before you move the model.↗

adieu — Everyday, meaning 1: Goodbye; a farewell, said when parting, often for a long time.↗ Example: "Adieu, my friend," she said.↗ · Heracles bade him adieu and departed.↗ · He waved adieu from the boat.↗

adipose — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) Made of or about body fat: adipose tissue is the fat stored in the body.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) Fatty.↗ Example: Adipose tissue stores energy for later.↗ · Seals have thick adipose layers to keep warm in icy water.↗ · Under the microscope, adipose cells look like round bubbles.↗ · Bears build up adipose tissue before winter.↗ · Our science sheet labelled the adipose layer under the skin.↗ · Adipose tissue also protects the kidneys like a cushion.↗

aditya — Everyday, meaning 1: (a name) A boy's name common in India, from Sanskrit, often taken to mean «the sun».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Hindu belief) In Hindu tradition, the Adityas are a group of gods, and Aditya is a name for the sun god Surya.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The name of India's space probe Aditya-L1 that studies the Sun.↗ Example: Aditya sits next to me in maths.↗ · Aditya's grandma told us a story from India.↗ · In Hindu tradition, Aditya is a name for the sun.↗ · Aditya-L1 is an Indian spacecraft that watches the Sun.↗ · Aditya scored the winning goal at lunch.↗ · Our teacher asked Aditya to read the poem aloud.↗

adjacent — Everyday, meaning 1: Adjacent means next to something or very near it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In maths, adjacent sides or angles share a side or a corner (vertex).↗ Example: Our house is adjacent to the park.↗ · The library is adjacent to the main hall.↗ · Adjacent angles on a straight line add up to 180°.↗ · In a rectangle, two adjacent sides are a length and a width.↗ · We stayed in adjacent rooms at the hotel.↗ · Adjacent sides 3 cm and 4 cm give a rectangle with area 12 cm².↗ · The field adjacent to the river often floods.↗

adjective — Everyday, meaning 1: An adjective is a word that describes a noun, telling us more about a person, place or thing, like «big», «red», «happy» or «three».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Adjectives can come before a noun («a tall tree») or after verbs like «is» and «seems» («the tree is tall»).↗ Example: «Fluffy» is an adjective in «a fluffy kitten».↗ · Add two adjectives to describe the monster.↗ · «Happy» is an adjective; «happiness» is a noun.↗ · The comparative of the adjective «big» is «bigger».↗ · In «The sky is blue», «blue» is an adjective after the verb.↗ · Use an adjective of colour and one of size: «a small green frog».↗ · «Good, better, best» are forms of one adjective.↗ · The true adjective for living is ChIA.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

adjoin — Everyday, meaning 1: To be next to and joined to something: the kitchen adjoins the dining room.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjoining, as an adjective) Next door and connected: adjoining rooms.↗ Example: The gym adjoins the school hall.↗ · Our hotel had two adjoining rooms with a door between them.↗ · The farmer bought the adjoining field.↗ · France adjoins Spain along the mountains.↗ · The two squares adjoin along one side.↗ · The shed adjoins the garage.↗ · Then the marriage was celebrated in the church adjoining the palace.↗

adjourn — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To adjourn a meeting, court or game is to stop it for a while and continue later.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal, jokey) To adjourn to another place is to move there together: «let's adjourn to the kitchen».↗ Example: The judge adjourned the trial until next week.↗ · The meeting was adjourned for lunch.↗ · Shall we adjourn to the garden for tea?↗ · The chess game was adjourned and finished the next day.↗ · The school council adjourned without a decision.↗ · The match was adjourned because of rain.↗ · But let us adjourn to my study, and examine these new stories.↗

adjudge — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To adjudge is to decide officially that something is true or that someone is something, as a judge or referee does.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (law) To give an official decision in a court case.↗ Example: The goal was adjudged offside.↗ · She was adjudged the winner of the poetry competition.↗ · The court adjudged him guilty.↗ · The referee adjudged that the ball had gone out.↗ · Our project was adjudged the best in the school.↗ · The match was adjudged a draw.↗ · An Ape undertook to adjudge the matter between them.↗

adjudicate — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal, law) To make an official decision about a disagreement or a legal case, as a judge does.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To be the judge of a competition, deciding who wins, such as in music, debating or sport.↗ Example: A judge will adjudicate the case next month.↗ · Mrs Patel adjudicated the school debating contest.↗ · Three experts adjudicated the piano competition.↗ · The referee had to adjudicate between the two teams.↗ · The court adjudicated in favour of the family.↗ · Who will adjudicate at the singing contest?↗ · It is hard to adjudicate when both sides seem right.↗

adjudication — Everyday, meaning 1: (law, formal) The official decision made by a judge or another person in charge after hearing both sides.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The act of judging a contest, such as a music, dance or debate competition.↗ Example: The adjudication of the singing contest took an hour.↗ · After the adjudication, our choir came second.↗ · The dispute went to adjudication.↗ · The adjudication panel praised her poem.↗ · The judge's adjudication ended the long argument.↗ · At the dance festival, adjudications were read out at the end.↗

adjudicator — Everyday, meaning 1: An adjudicator is a person who judges a contest, such as a music, dance or speaking competition, and decides who wins.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal, law) A person who officially decides a disagreement between people.↗ Example: The adjudicator gave our choir first place.↗ · Each dancer bowed to the adjudicator.↗ · The adjudicator wrote helpful comments on my sheet.↗ · An independent adjudicator settled the argument between the builder and the family.↗ · The debate adjudicator explained why our team lost.↗ · The adjudicator listened to every reader before choosing.↗

adjuration — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A solemn command or oath, made in God's name, that someone must speak the truth.↗ Example: And if any one sin, in that he heareth the voice of adjuration, he being a witness, whether he hath seen or known, if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity; (Torah LEV.5.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth the adjuration and uttereth nothing.↗ (Writings PRO.29.24, JPS 1917)↗

adjure — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: To solemnly command or beg someone, as if under an oath.↗ Example: What is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so adjure us?'↗ (Writings SNG.5.9, JPS 1917)↗ · 'I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem: Why should ye awaken, or stir up love, until it please?'↗ (Writings SNG.8.4, JPS 1917)↗ · 'I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, what will ye tell him? that I am love-sick.'↗ (Writings SNG.5.8, JPS 1917)↗

adjust — Everyday, meaning 1: To adjust something is to change it a little so that it is right or works better.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To adjust (to something) is to get used to a new situation.↗ Example: Adjust your helmet so it fits snugly.↗ · Dad adjusted the seat so I could reach the pedals.↗ · Can you adjust the volume?↗ It's too loud.↗ · Your eyes need time to adjust to the dark.↗ · She adjusted quickly to life in a new town.↗ · Adjust the mirror before you start driving.↗ · We adjusted our guess after measuring the first stick.↗

adjustment — Everyday, meaning 1: An adjustment is a small change to make something work better, fit better or be more correct.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Adjustment is getting used to a new situation.↗ Example: Dad made an adjustment to my bike seat.↗ · After a small adjustment, the car rolled straighter.↗ · Moving to a new school takes some adjustment.↗ · The recipe needs an adjustment for 8 people.↗ · She made adjustments to her answer after checking.↗ · The glasses needed an adjustment to fit.↗ · One adjustment: add 2 more spoons of flour.↗ · Turn the knob for fine adjustment of the microscope.↗

administer — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To administer means to manage or be in charge of something, such as a school, a test or money.↗ e.g. "the office administers the school trips".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) To administer medicine or first aid means to give it to someone.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) To administer a punishment means to give it out.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To administer a test or an oath means to give it to people and see that it is done properly.↗ Example: The nurse administered the medicine.↗ · A trained first aider administered first aid until the ambulance came.↗ · The test will be administered in the hall.↗ · The money is administered by the head teacher.↗ · The judge administered the oath to the witness.↗ · Only a parent may administer medicine at home.↗ · Since he thus reigned with justice, with justice also his ministers administered the law.↗ · even to give to them that were reckoned by genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation; for in their office of trust they administered the sacred gifts; (Writings 2CH.31.18, JPS 1917)↗

administration — Everyday, meaning 1: Administration is the work of organising and running a business, school or office.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The administration is the group of people who manage an organisation.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An administration is a government, especially in the USA.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (formal) The administration of medicine is giving it to someone.↗ Example: The school administration sent letters home.↗ · Mum works in administration at the hospital.↗ · There is a lot of administration in running a club.↗ · The new administration made changes to taxes.↗ · Only a nurse should handle the administration of medicine.↗ · Ask the administration office for a form.↗ · Not thinking one vizir enough for the administration of his estates he had two, named Khacan and Saouy.↗

administrative — Everyday, meaning 1: About organising and running a school, business or government: the paperwork, planning and office work.↗ Example: The administrative staff work in the school office.↗ · Filling in forms is an administrative job.↗ · The charity keeps its administrative costs low.↗ · The country is split into administrative regions.↗ · She does administrative work for a hospital.↗ · The meeting was about administrative changes.↗ · The Thirty-second Path is the Administrative Intelligence, and it is so called because it directs and associates, in all their operations, the seven planets, even all of them in their own due courses.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · The Thirty-second Path is the Administrative Intel- ligence, and it is so called because it directs and asso- ciates in all their operations the seven planets, even all of them in their own due courses.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

admirable — Everyday, meaning 1: Admirable means deserving praise and respect; very good.↗ Example: It was admirable that she told the truth.↗ · Firefighters show admirable courage.↗ · The team made an admirable effort despite losing.↗ · His patience with his little brother is admirable.↗ · Admirable qualities include kindness and honesty.↗ · The speech was admirable.↗ · The Three Mothers, Aleph, Mem and Shin, are a great Mystery, very admirable and most recondite, and sealed as with six rings; and from them proceed Air, Fire, and Water, which divide into active and passive forces.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · The Three Mothers Aleph, Mem and Shin are a great Mystery, very admirable and most recondite, and sealed as with six rings ; and from them proceed Air, Fire, and Water, which divide into male and female forces.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

admirably — Everyday, meaning 1: In a way that deserves praise; very well and skilfully.↗ The adjective is «admirable».↗ Example: The poem was admirably recited, and the speaker was much applauded.↗ · The fools played the fool most admirably.↗ · He dances admirably.↗ · witli that of "double letters"' and "simple letters", which con- trast admirably witii eacli otlier.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

admiral — Everyday, meaning 1: An admiral is a very high-ranking officer in a navy who commands many ships (a fleet).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A red admiral is a black butterfly with red bands and white spots on its wings, common in gardens.↗ Example: Admiral Nelson stands on top of a tall column in London.↗ · The admiral gave orders to the whole fleet.↗ · A red admiral landed on the buddleia bush.↗ · Red admiral caterpillars feed on stinging nettles.↗ · She joined the navy and dreamed of becoming an admiral.↗ · The admiral's flag flew from the biggest ship.↗