add
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ăd
ipa: /æd/
rhymes: -æd
homophone: ad
Forms: form: adds
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Etymology: From Middle English adden, from Latin addō (“add, give unto”).
Senses: glosses: To join or unite (e.g. one thing to another, or as several particulars) so as to increase the number, augment the quantity, or enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate.
examples: text: to add numbers
text: […]as easily as he can add together the ideas of two days or two years.
ref: 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To sum up; to put together mentally; to add up.
examples: text: to add a column of numbers
glosses: To combine elements of (something) into one quantity.
examples: text: The Lord shall add to me another son.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 30:24:
text: Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: To give by way of increased possession (to someone); to bestow (on).
examples: text: He added that he would willingly consent to the entire abolition of the tax
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 37:
text: "Bless your dear heart," she said, "I am sure I can tell you of a way to get back to Kansas." Then she added, "But, if I do, you must give me the Golden Cap."
ref: 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:
glosses: To append (e.g. a statement); to say further information.
examples: text: It adds to our anxiety.
text: I will add to your yoke
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 12:14:
text: Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial.[…]Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism. Dr Yoshimoto and his colleagues would like to add liver cancer to that list.
ref: 2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3:
glosses: To intensify; to augment; to increase.
examples: text: He adds rapidly.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To perform the arithmetical operation of addition.
examples: text: Typically, a hostile mob will add whenever it's within the aggro radius of a player.
topics: video-games
glosses: To summon minions or reinforcements.
topics: video-games
glosses: To add someone as a friend.
Synonyms: sense: join or unite so as to increase the number
word: annex
sense: put together mentally
word: add up
word: sum
sense: give by way of increased possession
word: bestow
word: give
sense: combine elements into one quantity
word: coalesce
sense: combine elements into one quantity
word: join
sense: combine elements into one quantity
word: unite
sense: say further information
word: mention
sense: say further information
word: note
sense: make an addition
word: augment
word: increase
word: add
word: lend
word: append
word: tack
Hypernyms: word: augment
word: join
Hyponyms: word: affix
word: subjoin
word: underjoin
Derived terms: addable
addedly
adder
add fuel to fire
add fuel to the fire
add fuel to the flame
addible
add-in
add in quadrature
add insult to injury
addition
additive
add oil
add-on
add one's twopenn'orth
add salt to injury
add to the list
add up
add up to
add value
add value machine
coadd
coadded
cycloadd
misadd
preadded
readd
re-add
superadd
unadd
unadded
value add
value-add
Related terms: addend