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Add

verb

(past & past part. added; pres. part. adding)

1.

Make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of. "She added a personal note to her letter" , "Add insult to injury" , "Add some extra plates to the dinner table"

2.

State or say further. Synonyms: append, supply.

3.

Bestow a quality on. Synonyms: bestow, bring, contribute, impart, lend. "The music added a lot to the play" , "She brings a special atmosphere to our meetings" , "This adds a light note to the program"

4.

Make an addition by combining numbers. Synonym: add together.

5.

Determine the sum of. Synonyms: add together, add up, sum, sum up, summate, tally, tot, tot up, total, tote up.

6.

Constitute an addition.

noun

1.

A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders. Synonyms: ADHD, attention deficit disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, hyperkinetic syndrome, MBD, minimal brain damage, minimal brain dysfunction.

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"Add" Quotes from Famous Books

... road is planted on both sides with trees, most of which bear a species of mulberry. In the night, this road is dangerously infested with thieves, but is quite secure in the day. Every five or six coss, there are serais, built by the king or some great man, which add greatly to the beauty of the road, are very convenient for the accommodation of travellers, and serve to perpetuate the memory of their founders. In these the traveller may have a chamber for his own use, a place in which to tie up his horse, and can be furnished with provender; ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume IX. • Robert Kerr

... You may add that this Government is making earnest representations to the German Government in regard to the danger to American vessels and citizens if the declaration of the German Admiralty ...

— New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various

... those times was simple and monotonous without our variety of vegetables and sauces and sweets, and the meat, if fresh, was likely to be tough in fiber and strong in flavor. Spices were the very thing to add zest to such a diet, and without them the epicure of the sixteenth century would have been truly miserable. Ale and wine, as well as meats, were spiced, and pepper was eaten separately as a delicacy. No wonder that, although the rich alone could buy ...

— A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. • Carlton J. H. Hayes

... unconsciously discover and employ new associative methods in our recording of facts, making them easier to recall, but we can certainly add nothing to the actual scope ...

— The Trained Memory • Warren Hilton

... into a two-lobed plain petal, the lobes of which are emarginate. This appendix is of a bright rose colour, and forms the principal part of the flower." The describer relaxes, or relapses, into common language so far as to add that 'this appendix' "dispersed among the green foliage in every part of the shrub, gives it a ...

— Proserpina, Volume 2 - Studies Of Wayside Flowers • John Ruskin

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