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add
1[ ad ]
verb (used with object)
- to unite or join so as to increase the number, quantity, size, or importance:
to add two cups of sugar; to add a postscript to her letter;
to add insult to injury.
Synonyms: , , ,
- to find the sum of (often followed by up ):
Add this column of figures.
Add up the grocery bills.
Synonyms: ,
- to say or write further.
- to include (usually followed by in ):
Don't forget to add in the tip.
verb (used without object)
noun
- Journalism. copy added to a completed story.
verb phrase
- to signify; indicate:
The evidence adds up to a case of murder.
ADD
2[ ey-dee-dee ]
abbreviation for
- attention deficit disorder: the inattentive subtype of ADHD, usually marked by distractibility and difficulties with executive function.
add
1/ æ»å /
verb
- to combine (two or more numbers or quantities) by addition
- trfoll byto to increase (a number or quantity) by another number or quantity using addition
- troften foll byto to join (something) to something else in order to increase the size, quantity, effect, or scope; unite (with)
to add insult to injury
- intrfoll byto to have an extra and increased effect (on)
her illness added to his worries
- tr to say or write further
- trfoll byin to include
noun
- informal.an instance of adding someone to one's list of contacts on a social networking site, esp MySpace
Thanks for the add!
ADD
2abbreviation for
- attention deficit disorder
ADD
- Abbreviation of attention deficit disorder
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²¹»å»åa·²ú±ô±ð ²¹»å»åi·²ú±ô±ð adjective
- ²¹»å»åĻå·±ô²â adverb
- ³¾¾±²õ·²¹»å»å verb
- °ù±ð·²¹»å»å verb (used with object)
- un·²¹»å»åa·²ú±ô±ð adjective
- ³Ü²Ô·²¹»å»åĻå adjective
- un·²¹»å»åi·²ú±ô±ð adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of add1
Idioms and Phrases
- add up,
- to make the desired, expected, or correct total:
These figures don't add up right.
- to seem reasonable or consistent; be in harmony or accord:
Some aspects of the story didn't add up.
Example Sentences
It’s the added cost of purchasing the appliance.
“This is one of the most disastrous and poorly thought out policies that the Trump administration has done thus far, and that’s saying a lot,†he added.
If they remain in place, those cost increases will be "permanently baked into the price consumers pay", he added.
“You see those kinds of outcomes, of course,†Van Scoyoc added.
It added any arrangement between the canal and Welsh Water would be a commercial contractual decision in which it should not be involved.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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