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add

(ăd)

v. add·ed, add·ing, adds

v.tr.

1. To join or combine (numbers) through addition: If you add 5 and 10 and 17, the result is 32. If you add 6 to 8, you get 14.

2. To join or unite so as to increase in size, quantity, quality, or scope: added 12 inches to the deck; flowers that added beauty to the dinner table.

3. To say or write further.

v.intr.

1. To find a sum in arithmetic.

a. To constitute an addition: an exploit that will add to her reputation.

b. To create or make an addition: gradually added to my meager savings.

Phrasal Verb:

add up

1. To be reasonable, plausible, or consistent; make sense: The witness's testimony simply did not add up.

2. To amount to an expected total: a bill that didn't add up.

3. To formulate an opinion of: added up the other competitors in one glance.

Idiom:

add up to

To constitute; amount to: The revisions added up to a lot of work.

[Middle English adden, from Latin addere : ad-, ad- + dare, to give; see dō- in Indo-European roots.]

add′a·ble, add′i·ble adj.

ADD

abbr.

attention deficit disorder

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adding

(ˈædɪŋ)

an act or instance of addition

adj

1. of, for, or relating to addition

2. (Grammar) (in systemic grammar) denoting a bound clause that qualifies the meaning of an antecedent noun rather than of the sentence as a whole. Compare contingency⁴

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sommation

aggiunta somma

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