Word Meanings - ADDUCENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Bringing together or towards a given point; -- a word applied to those muscles of the body which pull one part towards another. Opposed to abducent.

Related words: (words related to ADDUCENT)

• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• OPPOSABILITY
  The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• TOWARDS
  See TOWARD
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
• POINTAL
  The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer.
• POINTED
  1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope.
• OPPOSITIVE
  Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• POINT ALPHABET
  An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters.
• BRINGER
  One who brings. Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office. Shak. Bringer in, one who, or that which, introduces.
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• TOWARD; TOWARDS
  1. In the direction of; to. He set his face toward the wilderness. Num. xxiv. 1. The waves make towards'' the pebbled shore. Shak. 2. With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning. His eye shall be evil
• TROIS POINT
  The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table.
• INAPPLICABILITY
  The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
• REAPPOINT
  To appoint again.