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ADAM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine
Synonyms:
Adam; cristal; disco biscuit; ecstasy; go; hug drug; X; XTC
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("Adam" is a kind of...):
MDMA; methylenedioxymethamphetamine (a stimulant drug that is chemically related to mescaline and amphetamine and is used illicitly for its euphoric and hallucinogenic effects; it was formerly used in psychotherapy but in 1985 it was declared illegal in the United States)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(Old Testament) in Judeo-Christian mythology; the first man and the husband of Eve and the progenitor of the human race
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))
Domain category:
Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Scottish architect who designed many public buildings in England and Scotland (1728-1792)
Synonyms:
Adam; Robert Adam
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
architect; designer (someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings))
Context examples:
Screening was key in catching Amy Adam's cancer early.
(Study Shows Chemotherapy Not Needed To Treat Many Breast Cancers, Carol Pearson/VOA)
I remembered Adam’s supplication to his Creator.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Adams is going to be called to the bar almost directly, and is to be an advocate, and to wear a wig.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It was Adams, of course.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In spite of their Unitarian proclivities and their masks of conservative broadmindedness, they were two generations behind interpretative science: their mental processes were mediaeval, while their thinking on the ultimate data of existence and of the universe struck him as the same metaphysical method that was as young as the youngest race, as old as the cave-man, and older—the same that moved the first Pleistocene ape-man to fear the dark; that moved the first hasty Hebrew savage to incarnate Eve from Adam's rib; that moved Descartes to build an idealistic system of the universe out of the projections of his own puny ego; and that moved the famous British ecclesiastic to denounce evolution in satire so scathing as to win immediate applause and leave his name a notorious scrawl on the page of history.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Adam was lucky — a mammogram caught her cancer early… when the tumor was just three by four millimeters, smaller than the size of a pencil eraser.
(Study Shows Chemotherapy Not Needed To Treat Many Breast Cancers, Carol Pearson/VOA)
Like Adam, I was apparently united by no link to any other being in existence; but his state was far different from mine in every other respect.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Time has stolen on unobserved, for Adams is not the head-boy in the days that are come now, nor has he been this many and many a day.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Since she was diagnosed with breast cancer last April, Amy Adam values family time even more.
(Study Shows Chemotherapy Not Needed To Treat Many Breast Cancers, Carol Pearson/VOA)
Adams has left the school so long, that when he comes back, on a visit to Doctor Strong, there are not many there, besides myself, who know him.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
