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add (ad)

transitive verb

  1. to join or unite (something) to something else so as to increase the quantity, number, size, etc. or change the total effect to add a wing to the building, to add seasoning to the sauce
  2. to state further
  3. to combine (numbers) into a sum; calculate the total of

Etymology: ME adden < L addere, to add < ad-, to + dare, to give

intransitive verb

  1. to cause an increase; be an addition (to) this adds to my pleasure
  2. to find a sum by doing arithmetic

Related Forms:

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add up

  1. to calculate the total of
  2. to equal the expected sum these figures don't add up
  3. to seem reasonable his excuse just doesn't add up

add up to

  1. to reach a total of
  2. to mean; signify
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add

Etymology: L adde

Pharmacy let there be added; add
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ADD

  1. American Dialect Dictionary
  2. attention-deficit (hyperactivity) disorder

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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