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transitive verb
- 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
- to state further
- to combine (numbers) into a sum; calculate the total of
Etymology: ME adden < L addere, to add < ad-, to + dare, to give
intransitive verb
- to cause an increase; be an addition (to) this adds to my pleasure
- to find a sum by doing arithmetic
add up
- to calculate the total of
- to equal the expected sum these figures don't add up
- to seem reasonable his excuse just doesn't add up
add up to
- to reach a total of
- to mean; signify
add
Etymology: L adde
Pharmacy let there be added; addADD
- American Dialect Dictionary
- attention-deficit (hyperactivity) disorder
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Alternate definitions:
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v.
To combine numbers into a sum
total, sum, sum up, figure, figure up, compute, calculate, do a sum, tally, count up, foot up, cipher up, add up, cast up, do simple addition, run over, enumerate, reckon, tell off, score, tote up*. Antonyms
subtract, decrease*, take away. * To join so as to increase
append, annex, supplement, affix, attach, unite, combine, superimpose, tack on, hitch on, clap on*; see also join 1.To make a further remark
say further, continue, write further, append, add a postscript, reply, go on.
Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus Copyright © 1999 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Preposition: about
- cm: This should be added about 3 cm 3 at a time, and the contents of the flask thoroughly mixed after each addition.
Object
- comment: You can also add any further comments about your order.
Preposition: into
- equation: Yep, with last week's sales figures added into the equation, here is the slightly rejigged album top 10 of 2004.
Adjective complement
- 4th: Added 4th January 2005, 14:41 Transport Direct, the travel information and journey planning service for Great Britain, was officially launched today.
Modifying Another Word
- then: He paused, then added quietly, 'I've been talking to your mother outside.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- on: Cost does not include room hire which must be added on.
Followed by a transitive particle
- up: It was only at that point that I started to mentally add up the individual weights in the set.
Used with why or when
- when: These are the figures you have to add when calling from outside that area.
Infinitive complement
- flour: For example, chalk had been added to flour ( fairly harmless ), lead to bread ( poisonous ).
Preposition: in
- parenthesis: The metric system is to be used throughout and if it is necessary to quote other units then these should be added in parentheses.
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Aprendamos a ignorar, pensamiento, pues hallamos que cuanto an ado al discurso, tanto le usurpo a los an os. Thought, let's learn not to know, since so plainly it appears that whatever we add to our minds we take away from our years.
Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2005 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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