different between adduct vs adduce

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adductus, past participle of adduco. See adduce

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?kt

Verb

• enPR: ?-d?kt?, IPA^(key): /??d?kt/

Noun

• enPR: ??-d?kt, IPA^(key): /?æ.d?kt/

Verb

adduct (third-person singular simple present adducts, present participle adducting, simple past and past participle adducted)

2. (transitive, physiology) To draw towards a center or a middle line.

Noun

adduct (plural adducts)

1. (chemistry) The product of an addition reaction.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adducere, adductum (“to lead or bring to”), from ad- + ducere (“to lead”). See duke, and compare adduct.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??d(j)u?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??dju?s/, /??d?u?s/
• (US)
• Rhymes: -u?s

Verb

adduce (third-person singular simple present adduces, present participle adducing, simple past and past participle adduced)

1. (transitive) To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.
   • 1840, Thomas de Quincey, "Style" (published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, July 1840

     Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration.

   • For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, […]

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References

• adduce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “adduce”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• “adduce”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Italian

Verb

adduce

1. third-person singular present indicative of addurre

Anagrams

• deduca

Latin

Verb

add?ce

1. second-person singular present active imperative of add?c?

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ad(j)us/

Verb

adduce (third-person singular present adduces, present participle adducin, past adduced, past participle adduced)

1. to adduce
2. (law) to bring forth as proof

References

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.