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n 1: a condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders [syn: attention deficit disorder, ADD, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, hyperkinetic syndrome, minimal brain dysfunction, minimal brain damage, MBD] v 1: make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of; "We added two students to that dorm room"; "She added a personal note to her letter"; "Add insult to injury"; "Add some extra plates to the dinner table" [ant: take away, take out] 2: state or say further; "`It doesn't matter,' he supplied" [syn: add, append, supply] 3: bestow a quality on; "Her presence lends a certain cachet to the company"; "The music added a lot to the play"; "She brings a special atmosphere to our meetings"; "This adds a light note to the program" [syn: lend, impart, bestow, contribute, add, bring] 4: make an addition by combining numbers; "Add 27 and 49, please!" [syn: add, add together] [ant: deduct, subtract, take off] 5: determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town" [syn: total, tot, tot up, sum, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add together, tally, add up] 6: constitute an addition; "This paper will add to her reputation"

n 1: wild sheep of northern Africa [syn: aoudad, arui, audad, Barbary sheep, maned sheep, Ammotragus lervia]

adv 1: with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly'); "the injury hurt badly"; "the buildings were badly shaken"; "it hurts bad"; "we need water bad" [syn: badly, bad] 2: very much; strongly; "I wanted it badly enough to work hard for it"; "the cables had sagged badly"; "they were badly in need of help"; "he wants a bicycle so bad he can taste it" [syn: badly, bad] adj 1: having undesirable or negative qualities; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice" [ant: good] 2: very intense; "a bad headache"; "in a big rage"; "had a big (or bad) shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad storm" [syn: bad, big] 3: feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad'); "my throat feels bad"; "she felt bad all over"; "he was feeling tough after a restless night" [syn: bad, tough] 4: (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition; "bad meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food" [syn: bad, spoiled, spoilt] 5: feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone; "felt regretful over his vanished youth"; "regretful over mistakes she had made"; "he felt bad about breaking the vase" [syn: regretful, sorry, bad] [ant: unregretful, unregretting] 6: not capable of being collected; "a bad (or uncollectible) debt" [syn: bad, uncollectible] 7: below average in quality or performance; "a bad chess player"; "a bad recital" 8: nonstandard; "so-called bad grammar" 9: not financially safe or secure; "a bad investment"; "high risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky"; "speculative business enterprises" [syn: bad, risky, high-risk, speculative] 10: physically unsound or diseased; "has a bad back"; "a bad heart"; "bad teeth"; "an unsound limb"; "unsound teeth" [syn: bad, unfit, unsound] 11: capable of harming; "bad air"; "smoking is bad for you" 12: characterized by wickedness or immorality; "led a very bad life" 13: reproduced fraudulently; "like a bad penny..."; "a forged twenty dollar bill" [syn: bad, forged] 14: not working properly; "a bad telephone connection"; "a defective appliance" [syn: bad, defective] n 1: that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; "take the bad with the good" [syn: bad, badness] [ant: good, goodness]

n 1: a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria

n 1: a small nail v 1: fasten with brads

n 1: someone who is morally reprehensible; "you dirty dog" [syn: cad, bounder, blackguard, dog, hound, heel] 2: software used in art and architecture and engineering and manufacturing to assist in precision drawing [syn: computer- aided design, CAD]

n 1: the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 [syn: thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yard]

adj 1: wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination; "clothed and in his right mind"- Bible; "proud of her well-clothed family"; "nurses clad in white"; "white-clad nurses" [syn: clothed, clad] [ant: unclothed] 2: having an outer covering especially of thin metal; "steel- clad"; "armor-clad"

n 1: a friend who is frequently in the company of another; "drinking companions"; "comrades in arms" [syn: companion, comrade, fellow, familiar, associate] 2: a fellow member of the Communist Party 3: used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement; "Greetings, comrade!" [syn: brother, comrade]

n 1: any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales; having unbranched stems with a crown of fernlike leaves

n 1: an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk [syn: dad, dada, daddy, pa, papa, pappa, pop]

n 1: something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known; "she eased the ball-shaped doodad back into its socket"; "there may be some great new gizmo around the corner that you will want to use" [syn: doodad, doohickey, doojigger, gimmick, gizmo, gismo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingumabob, thingmabob, thingamajig, thingumajig, thingmajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget]

n 1: two items of the same kind [syn: couple, pair, twosome, twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet, distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad]

n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one [syn: nine, 9, IX, niner, Nina from Carolina, ennead]

n 1: an interest followed with exaggerated zeal; "he always follows the latest fads"; "it was all the rage that season" [syn: fad, craze, furor, furore, cult, rage]

n 1: a highwayman who robs on foot [syn: footpad, padder]

n 1: an anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling or lightheadedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months [syn: generalized anxiety disorder, GAD, anxiety reaction] 2: a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward; "cowboys know not to squat with their spurs on" [syn: spur, gad] v 1: wander aimlessly in search of pleasure [syn: gallivant, gad, jazz around]

adj 1: showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy; "glad you are here"; "glad that they succeeded"; "gave a glad shout"; "a glad smile"; "heard the glad news"; "a glad occasion" [ant: sad] 2: eagerly disposed to act or to be of service; "glad to help" [syn: glad, happy] 3: feeling happy appreciation; "glad of the fire's warmth" 4: cheerful and bright; "a beaming smile"; "a glad May morning" [syn: beaming, glad] n 1: any of numerous plants of the genus Gladiolus native chiefly to tropical and South Africa having sword-shaped leaves and one-sided spikes of brightly colored funnel- shaped flowers; widely cultivated [syn: gladiolus, gladiola, glad, sword lily]

n 1: a gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced [syn: gonad, sex gland]

n 1: one-hundredth of a right angle [syn: grad, grade] 2: a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) [syn: alumnus, alumna, alum, graduate, grad]

n 1: the father of your father or mother [syn: grandfather, gramps, granddad, grandad, granddaddy, grandpa]

n 1: the father of your father or mother [syn: grandfather, gramps, granddad, grandad, granddaddy, grandpa]

n 1: any period of seven consecutive days; "it rained for a week" [syn: week, hebdomad]

adj 1: sheathed in iron plates for protection 2: inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable; "brassbound traditions"; "brassbound party loyalists"; "an ironclad rule" [syn: ironclad, brassbound] n 1: a wooden warship of the 19th century that is plated with iron or steel armor

n 1: a holy war waged by Muslims against infidels [syn: jihad, jehad, international jihad] 2: a holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal [syn: jihad, jehad]

n 1: a keyboard that is a data input device for computers; arrangement of keys is modelled after the typewriter keyboard [syn: computer keyboard, keypad]

n 1: a boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at the door"; "he's a likable cuss"; "he's a good bloke" [syn: chap, fellow, feller, fella, lad, gent, blighter, cuss, bloke] 2: a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy) [syn: cub, lad, laddie, sonny, sonny boy]

adj 1: roused to anger; "stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain; "she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at his friend"; "sore over a remark" [syn: huffy, mad, sore] 2: affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad" [syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged] 3: marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure" [syn: delirious, excited, frantic, mad, unrestrained] 4: very foolish; "harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains" [syn: harebrained, insane, mad]

n 1: an unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman 2: (Greek mythology) a woman participant in the orgiastic rites of Dionysus

n 1: (chemistry) an atom having a valence of one 2: a singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive [syn: monad, monas] 3: (biology) a single-celled microorganism (especially a flagellate protozoan)

n 1: submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers; of fresh or brackish water [syn: naiad, water nymph] 2: (Greek mythology) a nymph of lakes and springs and rivers and fountains

n 1: a member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons

n 1: a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge [syn: pad, pad of paper, tablet] 2: the large floating leaf of an aquatic plant (as the water lily) 3: a block of absorbent material saturated with ink; used to transfer ink evenly to a rubber stamp [syn: pad, inkpad, inking pad, stamp pad] 4: a flat mass of soft material used for protection, stuffing, or comfort 5: a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched [syn: launching pad, launchpad, launch pad, launch area, pad] 6: temporary living quarters [syn: diggings, digs, domiciliation, lodgings, pad] 7: the fleshy cushion-like underside of an animal's foot or of a human's finger v 1: add details to [syn: embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatise] 2: walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud; "Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone" [syn: slog, footslog, plod, trudge, pad, tramp] 3: line or stuff with soft material; "pad a bra" [syn: pad, fill out] 4: add padding to; "pad the seat of the chair" [syn: pad, bolster]

n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one [syn: five, 5, V, cinque, quint, quintet, fivesome, quintuplet, pentad, fin, Phoebe, Little Phoebe]

n 1: a cloth having a crisscross design [syn: tartan, plaid]

adj 1: experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; "feeling sad because his dog had died"; "Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad"- Christina Rossetti [ant: glad] 2: of things that make you feel sad; "sad news"; "she doesn't like sad movies"; "it was a very sad story"; "When I am dead, my dearest, / Sing no sad songs for me"- Christina Rossetti 3: bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs" [syn: deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry]

n 1: bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning; especially of Atlantic coast 2: herring-like food fishes that migrate from the sea to fresh water to spawn

n 1: a slight amount or degree of difference; "a tad too expensive"; "not a tad of difference"; "the new model is a shade better than the old one" [syn: tad, shade]

n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one [syn: four, 4, IV, tetrad, quatern, quaternion, quaternary, quaternity, quartet, quadruplet, foursome, Little Joe]

n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one [syn: three, 3, III, trio, threesome, tierce, leash, troika, triad, trine, trinity, ternary, ternion, triplet, tercet, terzetto, trey, deuce- ace] 2: a set of three similar things considered as a unit [syn: trio, triad, triplet, triple] 3: three people considered as a unit [syn: trio, threesome, triad, trinity] 4: a three-note major or minor chord; a note and its third and fifth tones [syn: common chord, triad]

adj 1: having removed clothing [syn: unappareled, unattired, unclad, undressed, ungarbed, ungarmented]

n 1: a university student who has not yet received a first degree [syn: undergraduate, undergrad]

n 1: the Israeli foreign intelligence agency; "the primary focus of the Mossad is on Arab nations"

n 1: joint capital (with Mecca) of Saudi Arabia located in the central oasis; largest city in Saudi Arabia [syn: Riyadh, capital of Saudi Arabia]

n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of six and one [syn: seven, 7, VII, sevener, heptad, septet, septenary]

n 1: a small piece of paper that is supposed to be removed when a hole is punched in a card or paper tape 2: a lake in north central Africa; fed by the Shari river [syn: Lake Chad, Chad] 3: a landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa; was under French control until 1960 [syn: Chad, Republic of Chad, Tchad] 4: a family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa [syn: Chad, Chadic, Chadic language]

n 1: a coenzyme present in most living cells and derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid; serves as a reductant in various metabolic processes [syn: nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, NAD]

n 1: a unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material 2: the unit of plane angle adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to the angle at the center of a circle subtended by an arc equal in length to the radius (approximately 57.295 degrees) [syn: radian, rad]

n 1: any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae

n 1: a violin made by Antonio Stradivari or a member of his family [syn: Stradavarius, Strad]

n 1: traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s

n 1: the holy city of Shiite Muslims; located in northeastern Iran [syn: Mashhad, Meshed]

n 1: in the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages [syn: Sinbad the Sailor, Sinbad]

n 1: a city in northern Colombia; a suburb of Barranquilla

n 1: surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments [syn: alidade, alidad] 2: surveying instrument used with a plane table for drawing lines of sight on a distant object and for measuring angles [syn: alidade, alidad]

n 1: (Arthurian legend) the most virtuous knight of the Round Table; was able to see the Holy Grail [syn: Galahad, Sir Galahad]

n 1: a city in the European part of Russia; 2nd largest Russian city; located at the head of the Gulf of Finland; former capital of Russia [syn: St. Petersburg, Leningrad, Peterburg, Petrograd, Saint Petersburg]

n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one [syn: eight, 8, VIII, eighter, eighter from Decatur, octad, ogdoad, octonary, octet]

n 1: (Greek mythology) one of the mountain nymphs

n 1: a city in the European part of Russia; 2nd largest Russian city; located at the head of the Gulf of Finland; former capital of Russia [syn: St. Petersburg, Leningrad, Peterburg, Petrograd, Saint Petersburg]

n 1: a city in the European part of Russia on the Volga; site of German defeat in World War II in the winter of 1942-43 [syn: Volgograd, Stalingrad, Tsaritsyn]

n 1: an island in West Indies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela

n 1: a city in the European part of Russia on the Volga; site of German defeat in World War II in the winter of 1942-43 [syn: Volgograd, Stalingrad, Tsaritsyn]

n 1: a city in southern Pakistan on the Indus River 2: a city in south central India in Andhra Pradesh

n 1: one of the four-year intervals between Olympic Games; used to reckon time in ancient Greece for twelve centuries beginning in 776 BC 2: the modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected country [syn: Olympic Games, Olympics, Olympiad]

n 1: a later sacred text of Hinduism of a mystical nature dealing with metaphysical questions; "the Vedanta philosophy developed from the pantheistic views of the Upanishads"

n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one [syn: six, 6, VI, sixer, sise, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, sextet, sestet, sextuplet, hexad]

n 1: capital and largest city of Iraq; located on the Tigris River; "Baghdad is one of the great cities of the Muslim world" [syn: Baghdad, Bagdad, capital of Iraq]

n 1: capital and largest city of Iraq; located on the Tigris River; "Baghdad is one of the great cities of the Muslim world" [syn: Baghdad, Bagdad, capital of Iraq]

n 1: a town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border; potash deposits

n 1: English novelist (born in Poland) noted for sea stories and for his narrative technique (1857-1924) [syn: Conrad, Joseph Conrad, Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski]

n 1: two items of the same kind [syn: couple, pair, twosome, twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet, distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad]

n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one [syn: eight, 8, VIII, eighter, eighter from Decatur, octad, ogdoad, octonary, octet]

adv 1: toward the mouth or oral region [ant: aborad]

n 1: a capacitance unit equal to one billion farads

adv 1: away from the mouth or oral region [ant: orad]

n 1: the first dynasty of Arab caliphs whose capital was Damascus [syn: Umayyad, Ommiad, Omayyad]

n 1: the first dynasty of Arab caliphs whose capital was Damascus [syn: Umayyad, Ommiad, Omayyad]

n 1: the capital of Pakistan in the north on a plateau; the site was chosen in 1959 [syn: Islamabad, capital of Pakistan]

n 1: a town in eastern Afghanistan (east of Kabul)

n 1: a long and mournful complaint; "a jeremiad against any form of government"

n 1: cause of trichomoniasis in women and cattle and birds