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Adder vs Asp - What's the difference?

adder | asp |

As nouns the difference between adder and asp

is that adder is a snake while asp is a water snake.

As an initialism ASP is

active Server Pages.

As an acronym ASP is

an extensible baton, used by police and security officers. From the name of the manufacturer: Amalgamated Security Products.

adder

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) addere, misdivision of naddere, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A snake.
  • A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling the viper; a viper.
  • (chiefly, British) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera . The (common European adder) is the .
  • (US, Canada) Any of several small nonvenomous snakes resembling the adder, such as the milk snake.
  • The sea-stickleback or adder-fish.
    • Derived terms
    * adder-fish * puff adder

    Etymology 2

    (add).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who or something which performs arithmetic addition; a machine for adding numbers.
  • Something which adds or increases.
    • They sought out cost adders with an eye toward eliminating them.
    Derived terms
    * carry-lookahead adder * carry-save adder * carry-skip adder * full adder * half adder

    Anagrams

    * * * English agent nouns English nouns which have interacted with their indefinite article ----

    asp

    English

    (Active Server Pages) (Application service provider)

    Initialism

    (Initialism) (head)
  • Active Server Pages
  • Application Service Provider
  • (military) (Ammunition Supply Point)

    • Acronym

    (Acronym) (head)
  • An extensible baton, used by police and security officers. From the name of the manufacturer: Amalgamated Security Products.

    • Related terms

    * .asp

    Anagrams

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