Index of English words, starting with "ad"

(1) - Adjective (v. t.) To make an adjective of; to form or change into an adjective.
(2) - Adjective (n.) A dependent; an accessory.
(3) - Adjective (n.) A word used with a noun, or substantive, to express a quality of the thing named, or something attributed to it, or to limit or define it, or to specify or describe a thing, as distinct from something else. Thus, in phrase, "a wise ruler," wise is the adjective, expressing a property of ruler.
(4) - Adjective (n.) Relating to procedure.
(5) - Adjective (n.) Not standing by itself; dependent.
(6) - Adjective (n.) Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an adjective word or sentence.

(1) - Adjoin (v. i.) To join one's self.
(2) - Adjoin (v. i.) To lie or be next, or in contact; to be contiguous; as, the houses adjoin.
(3) - Adjoin (v. t.) To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append.

(1) - Adjoining (a.) Joining to; contiguous; adjacent; as, an adjoining room.
(2) - Adjoining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adjoin

(1) - Adjourn (v. i.) To suspend business for a time, as from one day to another, or for a longer period, or indefinitely; usually, to suspend public business, as of legislatures and courts, or other convened bodies; as, congress adjourned at four o'clock; the court adjourned without day.
(2) - Adjourn (v. t.) To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate.

(1) - Adjournment (n.) The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.
(2) - Adjournment (n.) The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day.