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ADD
abbr.
attention deficit disorder

add  (d)
v. add·ed, add·ing, adds
v.tr.
1. To combine (a column of figures, for example) to form a sum.
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.
2.
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 d- in Indo-European roots.]

adda·ble, addi·ble adj.

adding [ˈædɪŋ]
n
an act or instance of addition
adj
1. of, for, or relating to addition
2. (Linguistics / 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 contingency [4]


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"No," I answered; adding in my mind, "not, at all events, for the present.
Sometimes too we qualify the metaphor by adding the term to which the proper word is relative.
For so much was then subject to demonstration, that the globe of the earth had great parts beyond the Atlantic, which mought be probably conceived not to be all sea: and adding thereto the tradition in Plato's Timaeus, and his Atlanticus, it mought encourage one to turn it to a prediction.
 
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