English-Thai Dictionary
Adam
N ชื่อ บุคคล แรก ของ โลก ตาม ศาสนาคริสต์ chue-buk-khon-raek-khong-lok-tam-sat-sa-na khrid
Adam and Eve
SL เชื่อ chuea
Adam's apple
N ลูกกระเดือก luk-kra-dueak
adam
N ชื่อ บุ คค แรก ของ โลก chue-buk-kon-leak-kong-lok
adamant
ADJ แน่วแน่ ใจแข็ง ยืนกราน inflexible naeo-nae
adamant
N หิน ใน ตำนาน ที่ มี ความแข็ง มาก hin-nai-tam-nan ti-mee-khwam-khaeng-mak
adamantine
A ใจแข็ง jai-kang
adamite
N มนุษย์ ma-nud
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
ADAM
n.In Heb. , Man; primarily, the name of the human species, mankind; appropriately, the first Man, the progenitor of the human race. The word signifies form, shape, or suitable form, hence, species. It is evidently connected with Heb. , to be like or equal, to form an image, to assimilate. Whence the sense of likeness, image, form, shape; Gr. , a body, like. [See Man. ] Adam's apple, a species of citron [See Citron. ] also the prominent part of the throat.
Ad'am's needle, the popular name of the yucca, a plant of four species, cultivated in gardens. Of the roots, the Indians made a kind of bread. [See Yucca. ]
ADAMANT
n.[Gr. ; L. adamas; a word of Celtic origin. ] A very hard or impenetrable stone; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness. The name has often been given to the load stone; but in modern mineralogy, it has no technical signification.
ADAMANTEAN
a.Hard as adamant.
ADAMANTINE
a.Made of adamant; having the qualities of adamant; that cannot be broken, dissolved, or penetrated, as adamantine bonds, or chains. Adamantine Spar, a genus of earths, of three varieties. The color of the first is gray, with shades of brown or green; the form when regular, a hexangular prism, two sides large and four small, without a pyramid; its surface striated, and with a thin covering of white mica, interspersed with particles of red felspar; its fracture, foliaceous and sparry. The second variety is whiter, and the texture more foliaceous. The third variety is of a reddish brown color. This stone is very hard, and of difficult fusion.
A variety of corrundum.
ADAMIC
a.Pertaining to Adam. Adamic earth, is the term given to common red clay, so called by means of a mistaken opinion that Adam means red earth.
ADAMITES
in Church history, a sect of visionaries, who pretended to establish a state of innocence, and like Adam, went naked. They abhorred marriage, holding it to be the effect of sin. Several attempts have been made to revive this sec; one as late as the 15th century.
ADAMITIC
Like the Adamites.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
ADAM
ADAM Ad "am, n.
1. The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race.
2. (As a symbol )
Defn: "Original sin; " human frailty. And whipped the offending Adam out of him. Shak. Adam's ale, water. [Coll. ] -- Adam's apple.
1. (Bot. ) (a ) A species of banana (Musa paradisiaca ). It attains a height of twenty feet or more. Paxton ]. (b ) A species of lime (Citris limetta ).
2. The projection formed by the thyroid cartilage in the neck. It is particularly prominent in males, and is so called from a notion that it was caused by the forbidden fruit (an apple ) sticking in the throat of our first parent. -- Adam's flannel (Bot. ), the mullein (Verbascum thapsus ). -- Adam's needle (Bot. ), the popular name of a genus (Yucca ) of liliaceous plants.
ADAMANT
Ad "a *mant, n. Etym: [OE. adamaunt, adamant, diamond, magnet, OF. adamant, L. adamas, adamantis, the hardest metal, fr. Gr. adamare to love, be attached to, the word meant also magnet, as in OF. and LL. See Diamond, Tame. ]
1. A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substance of extreme hardness; but in modern minerology it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield. Milton.
2. Lodestone; magnet. [Obs. ] "A great adamant of acquaintance. " Bacon. As true to thee as steel to adamant. Greene.
ADAMANTEAN
Ad `a *man *te "an, a. Etym: [L. adamanteus.]
Defn: Of adamant; hard as adamant. Milton.
ADAMANTINE
Ad `a *man "tine, a. Etym: [L. adamantinus, Gr.
1. Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.
2. (Min. )
Defn: Like the diamond in hardness or luster.
ADAMBULACRAL
Ad `am *bu *la "cral, a. Etym: [L. ad + E. ambulacral. ] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Next to the ambulacra; as, the adambulacral ossicles of the starfish.
ADAMIC; ADAMICAL
ADAMIC; ADAMICAL A *dam "ic, A *dam "ic *al, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to Adam, or resembling him. Adamic earth, a name given to common red clay, from a notion that Adam means red earth.
ADAMITE
Ad "am *ite, n. Etym: [From Adam. ]
1. A descendant of Adam; a human being.
2. (Eccl. Hist. )
Defn: One of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate the state of Adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies.
ADAM'S APPLE
ADAM'S APPLE Ad "am's ap "ple.
Defn: See under Adam.
New American Oxford Dictionary
Adam
Ad am |ˈadəm ˈædəm | (in the biblical and Koranic traditions ) the first man. According to the Book of Genesis, Adam was created by God as the progenitor of the human race and lived with Eve in the Garden of Eden. PHRASES not know someone from Adam not know or be completely unable to recognize the person in question. ORIGIN from Hebrew ῾ ādām ‘man, ’ later taken to be a name.
Adam, Robert
Ad am, Robert |ˈædəm ˈadəm | (1728 –92 ), Scottish architect and furniture designer. With his brother James (1730 –94 ), he was influential in the change from the prevailing Palladian fashion to a neoclassical style.
adamant
ad a mant |ˈadəmənt ˈædəmənt | ▶adjective refusing to be persuaded or to change one's mind: he is adamant that he is not going to resign. ▶noun archaic a legendary rock or mineral to which many, often contradictory, properties were attributed, formerly associated with diamond or lodestone. DERIVATIVES ad a mance noun, ad a man cy |-mənsē |noun, ad a mant ly adverb ORIGIN Old English (as a noun ), from Old French adamaunt-, via Latin from Greek adamas, adamant, ‘untamable, invincible ’ (later used to denote the hardest metal or stone, hence diamond ), from a- ‘not ’ + daman ‘to tame. ’ The phrase to be adamant dates from the 1930s, although adjectival use had been implied in such collocations as “an adamant heart ” since the 16th cent.
adamantine
ad a man tine |ˌadəˈmanˌtīn, -tin-, -ˌtēn ˌædəˈmænˌtaɪn | ▶adjective literary unbreakable: adamantine chains | figurative : her adamantine will.
Adams, Abigail
Ad ams, Abigail |ˈadəmz ˈædəmz | (1744 –1818 ), US first lady 1797 –1801, the wife of President John Adams and mother of President John Quincy Adams; full name Abigail Smith Adams. She is noted for her letters that gave an insider's view of the times.
Adams, Alice
Ad ams, Alice |ˈædəmz ˈadəmz | (1926 –99 ), US writer and editor. She wrote about women's lives in her novels Families and Survivors ( 1975 ), Superior Women (1984 ), and A Southern Exposure (1995 ), among others, and in short stories that are collected in such works as To See You Again (1982 ).
Adams, Ansel
Ad ams, Ansel |ˈædəmz ˈadəmz | (1902 –84 ), US photographer, noted for his black-and-white photographs of American landscapes; full name Ansel Easton Adams. Many of his collections, such as My Camera in the National Parks (1950 ) and This Is the American Earth (1960 ), reflect his interest in conservation.
Adams, John
Ad ams, John |ˈædəmz ˈadəmz | (1735 –1826 ), 2nd president of the US 1797 –1801. A Massachusetts Federalist, he was a delegate to the Continental Congress 1774 –78 and helped draft the Declaration of Independence in 1776. With John Jay and Benjamin Franklin, he negotiated the Treaty of Paris, which ended the American Revolution in 1783. Adams was minister to Great Britain 1785 –88 before becoming the first vice president of the US 1789 –97.
Adams, John Couch
Ad ams, John Couch |ˈædəmz ˈadəmz | (1819 –92 ), English astronomer. He postulated the existence of an eighth planet in 1843, three years before Le Verrier discovered Neptune.
Adams, John Quincy
Ad ams, John Quincy |ˈædəmz ˈadəmz | (1767 –1848 ), 6th president of the US 1825 –29; a Massachusetts Democratic-Republican; eldest son of President John Adams. His ministerial positions from 1794 to 1801 included appointments to the Netherlands, Portugal, and Prussia. After serving in the US Senate 1803 –08, he was minister to Russia, then to England. He helped negotiate the Treaty of Ghent 1814, which ended the War of 1812. As President Monroe's secretary of state 1817 –25, he was the chief architect of the Monroe Doctrine. His impassioned advocacy of the abolition of slavery and the safeguarding of freedom of speech defined his postpresidential career as a member of the US House of Representatives 1831 –48.
Adams, Samuel
Ad ams, Samuel |ˈædəmz ˈadəmz | (1722 –1803 ), US patriot. One of the leaders of the Boston Tea Party in 1773, he was active in pre-Revolutionary anti-British activities that took place in that city. He served in the First and Second Continental Congresses 1774 –75 and was a signer of the Declaration of Independence 1776.
Adam's ale
Ad am's ale ▶noun dated, humorous water.
Adam's apple
Ad am's ap ple ▶noun the projection at the front of the neck formed by the thyroid cartilage of the larynx, often prominent in men.
Adam's Bridge
Ad am's Bridge a line of shoals lying between northwestern Sri Lanka and the southeastern coast of Tamil Nadu in India. It separates the Palk Strait from the Gulf of Mannar.
Adam's needle
Ad am's nee dle (also Adam's needle-and-thread ) ▶noun a frost-hardy yucca native to the eastern US, with long leaves that are edged with white threads. [Yucca filamentosa, family Agavaceae. ]
Adam's Peak
Ad am's Peak a mountain in south central Sri Lanka, rising to 7,360 feet (2,243 m ). It is regarded as sacred by Buddhists, Hindus, and Muslims.
Oxford Dictionary
Adam
Adam |ˈadəm | (in the biblical and Koranic traditions ) the name of the first man. According to the Book of Genesis, Adam was created by God as the progenitor of the human race and lived with Eve in the Garden of Eden. PHRASES not know someone from Adam not know or be completely unable to recognize the person in question. ORIGIN from Hebrew 'āḏām ‘man ’, later taken to be a name.
Adam, Robert
Adam |ˈadəm | (1728 –92 ), Scottish architect. He was influenced by neoclassical theory and, assisted by his brother James (1730 –94 ), he initiated a lighter, more decorative style than the Palladianism favoured by the British architecture of the previous half-century.
adamant
ad ¦am |ant |ˈadəm (ə )nt | ▶adjective refusing to be persuaded or to change one's mind: he is adamant that he is not going to resign. ▶noun [ mass noun ] archaic a legendary rock or mineral to which many properties were attributed, formerly associated with diamond or lodestone. DERIVATIVES adamance noun, adamancy noun, adamantly adverb ORIGIN Old English (as a noun ), from Old French adamaunt-, via Latin from Greek adamas, adamant-, ‘untameable, invincible ’ (later used to denote the hardest metal or stone, hence diamond ), from a- ‘not ’ + daman ‘to tame ’. The phrase to be adamant dates from the 1930s, although adjectival use had been implied in such collocations as ‘an adamant heart ’ since the 16th cent.
adamantine
adamantine |ˌadəˈmantʌɪn | ▶adjective literary unable to be broken: adamantine chains | figurative : her adamantine will.
Adams, Alice
Ad ams, Alice |ˈædəmz ˈadəmz | (1926 –99 ), US writer and editor. She wrote about women's lives in her novels Families and Survivors ( 1975 ), Superior Women (1984 ), and A Southern Exposure (1995 ), among others, and in short stories that are collected in such works as To See You Again (1982 ).
Adams, Ansel
Adams |ˈadəmz | (1902 –84 ), American photographer, noted for his black-and-white photographs of American landscapes; full name Ansel Easton Adams.
Adams, John
Adams |ˈadəmz | (1735 –1826 ), American Federalist statesman, 2nd President of the US 1797 –1801; father of John Quincy Adams. He helped draft the Declaration of Independence (1776 ).
Adams, John Couch
Adams |ˈadəmz | (1819 –92 ), English astronomer. In 1843 he calculated the position of a supposed planet beyond Uranus; similar calculations performed by Le Verrier resulted in the discovery of Neptune three years later.
Adams, John Quincy
Ad ams, John Quincy |ˈædəmz ˈadəmz | (1767 –1848 ), 6th president of the US 1825 –29; a Massachusetts Democratic-Republican; eldest son of President John Adams. His ministerial positions from 1794 to 1801 included appointments to the Netherlands, Portugal, and Prussia. After serving in the US Senate 1803 –08, he was minister to Russia, then to England. He helped negotiate the Treaty of Ghent 1814, which ended the War of 1812. As President Monroe's secretary of state 1817 –25, he was the chief architect of the Monroe Doctrine. His impassioned advocacy of the abolition of slavery and the safeguarding of freedom of speech defined his postpresidential career as a member of the US House of Representatives 1831 –48.
Adams, John Quincy
Adams |ˈadəmz | (1767 –1848 ), American statesman, 6th President of the US 1825 –9; eldest son of John Adams.
Adams, Samuel
Ad ams, Samuel |ˈædəmz ˈadəmz | (1722 –1803 ), US patriot. One of the leaders of the Boston Tea Party in 1773, he was active in pre-Revolutionary anti-British activities that took place in that city. He served in the First and Second Continental Congresses 1774 –75 and was a signer of the Declaration of Independence 1776.
Adam's ale
Adam's ale ▶noun [ mass noun ] dated, humorous water.
Adam's apple
Adam's apple ▶noun a projection at the front of the neck formed by the thyroid cartilage of the larynx, often prominent in men. ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: so named from the notion that a piece of the forbidden fruit became lodged in Adam's throat.
Adam's Bridge
Adam's Bridge a line of shoals lying between NW Sri Lanka and the SE coast of Tamil Nadu in India, separating the Palk Strait from the Gulf of Mannar.
Adam's needle
Adam's nee ¦dle ▶noun another term for yucca.
Adam's Peak
Adam's Peak a mountain in south central Sri Lanka, rising to 2,243 m (7,360 ft ). A rock near the top bears a depression resembling a footprint, which is the focus of religious pilgrimages.
American Oxford Thesaurus
adamant
adamant adjective he begged his mother to let him try out for the football team, but she was adamant: unshakable, immovable, inflexible, unwavering, unswerving, uncompromising, insistent, resolute, resolved, determined, firm, steadfast; stubborn, unrelenting, diehard, unyielding, unbending, rigid, obdurate, inexorable, intransigent, (dead ) set.
Oxford Thesaurus
adamant
adamant adjective scientists are adamant about the absence of risk: unshakeable, immovable, inflexible, unwavering, uncompromising, resolute, resolved, determined, firm, rigid, steadfast; unswerving, stubborn, unrelenting, unyielding, unbending, obdurate, inexorable, intransigent, dead set, iron-willed, strong-willed, steely; N. Amer. rock-ribbed; informal stiff-necked; rare indurate. ANTONYMS unsure.
Duden Dictionary
Adam
Adam Eigenname , der |A dam |der; Genitiv: des Adam [s ], Plural: die Adams hebräisch a d a m = der erste, von Gott erschaffene Mensch im Alten Testament 1 umgangssprachlich scherzhaft Mann [als Partner der Frau ]2 bei Adam und Eva anfangen /beginnen umgangssprachlich in einem Vortrag, bei seinen Ausführungen sehr weit ausholen seit Adams Zeiten umgangssprachlich seit je, von jeher, solange man denken kann von Adam und Eva abstammen umgangssprachlich [von Dingen ] sehr alt sein
Adam
Adam Eigenname |A dam |männlicher Vorname
Adamantin
Ada man tin Substantiv, Neutrum Medizin , das |Adamant i n |das Adamantin; Genitiv: des Adamantins griechisch-lateinisch Zahnschmelz
Adamantinom
Ada man ti nom Substantiv, Neutrum Medizin , das |Adamantin o m |das Adamantinom; Genitiv: des Adamantinoms, Plural: die Adamantinome Kiefergeschwulst
Adamantoblast
Ada man to blast Substantiv, maskulin Medizin , der |Adamantobl a st |der Adamantoblast; Genitiv: des Adamantoblasten, Plural: die Adamantoblasten Zelle, die den Zahnschmelz bildet
Adamit
Ada mit Substantiv, maskulin Geschichte , der |Adam i t |hebräisch -lateinisch ; nach dem biblischen Stammvater der Menschen Angehöriger von Sekten, die angeblich nackt zu ihren Kulten zusammenkamen, um so ihre paradiesische Unschuld zu dokumentieren
adamitisch
ada mi tisch Adjektiv |adam i tisch |a nach Art der Adamiten b nackt c auf Adam (und die Schöpfungsgeschichte ) zurückgehend, sie betreffend
Adam Riese
Adam Rie se |A dam R ie se |in der Fügung nach Adam Riese umgangssprachlich scherzhaft richtig gerechnet nach dem Rechenmeister Adam Ries [e ], 1492 –1559 das macht nach Adam Riese zehn Euro
Adamsapfel
Adams ap fel Substantiv, maskulin umgangssprachlich scherzhaft , der |A damsapfel |nach der Vorstellung, dass Adam das Kerngehäuse des verbotenen Apfels im Halse stecken geblieben sei [stark ] hervortretender Knorpel am Hals (besonders bei Männern )
Adamsit
Adam sit Substantiv, Neutrum , das |Adams i t |das Adamsit; Genitiv: des Adamsits neulateinisch ; nach dem amerikanischen Chemiker R. Adams, 1889 –1971 Haut und Atemwege reizendes Gas
Adamskostüm
Adams kos tüm Substantiv, Neutrum , das |A damskostüm |in der Wendung im Adamskostüm umgangssprachlich scherzhaft von männlichen Personen nackt im Adamskostüm herumlaufen
French Dictionary
adamantin
adamantin , ine adj. adjectif littéraire Qui a l ’éclat du diamant.
Spanish Dictionary
adamantino, -na
adamantino, -na adjetivo formal Que tiene una o más características propias del diamante .SINÓNIMO diamantino .
adamascado, -da
adamascado, -da adjetivo Que tiene la superficie de damasco de seda o parecida al damasco de seda :satén adasmacado; la brisa que llega del jardín mueve la cortina adamascada .SINÓNIMO damascado .
adamascar
adamascar verbo transitivo Tejer una tela a modo de damasco . Conjugación [1 ] como sacar .
adámico, -ca
adámico, -ca adjetivo 1 Adánico .2 geol [sedimento ] Que deja el mar en el reflujo .
adamsita
adamsita nombre femenino Compuesto químico venenoso que irrita la piel y las vías respiratorias y que a veces se utiliza como arma química .
Sanseido Dictionary
ADAMS
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Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
Adam
Ad am /ǽdəm /名詞 1 アダム 〘男の名 〙.2 〘聖書 〙アダム 〘旧約聖書で神が最初に創造した男性; →Eve 〙.n ò t kn ó w A from Á dam ｟くだけて ｠A 〈人 〉を見てもまったく知らない [わからない ].～̀ 's á le [w í ne ]｟やや古 ｠水 〘唯一の飲み物であったことから 〙.～́ 's à pple のどぼとけ 〘エデンの園にある禁断の実をAdamが食べた時にのどにつかえたという伝説から 〙.
adamant
ad a mant /ǽdəmənt /〖原義は 名詞 〗形容詞 ｟かたく ｠〖通例be ～〗 «…だと /…を » 断固 (として )主張する «that 節 /about » ; 〈人が 〉断固たる態度 [決意 ]で ; «…を » 断固として譲らない [変えない ] «about » ; 断固として «…する » «in do ing » ; 〈人が 〉 «…に対して » 動じない «to » ; 意志堅固な .名詞 U ｟まれ ｠きわめてかたい物 ; ｟古 ｠アダマント 〘ダイヤモンドとも言われた伝説上のかたい石 〙.á d a man cy 名詞 ～ly 副詞 断固として, 頑固に .
Adams
Ad ams /ǽdəmz /名詞 アダムズ 〘a John ～, 1735 --1826; 米国第2代大統領 (1797 --1801 ).b John Quincy ～/kwɪ́nsi /, 1767 --1848; 米国第6代大統領 (1825 --29 );a の子.c William ～, 1564 --1620; もと英国の航海士; 日本に帰化し三浦按針と名乗った 〙.
The Wordsmith Dictionary