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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.
- to find the sum of (often followed by up ):
Add this column of figures.
Add up the grocery bills.
- 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/ æd /
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 Words From
- adda·ble addi·ble adjective
- added·ly adverb
- mis·add verb
- re·add verb (used with object)
- un·adda·ble adjective
- un·added adjective
- un·addi·ble adjective
Word 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
Then add in all bored people, as well as people whose job it is to report on celebrities.
Seeing what they were doing, I was inspired to add my vision to their technique.
Think of it as Game of Thrones—if you subtract the sex and violence and add drunken revelry and singing.
Her new comments will only add to ongoing speculation that the Yorks plan, one day, to remarry.
The economy has begun to add jobs, but the quality of those jobs is an increasing concern.
Add to this, if you please, the great difficulty of obtaining from them even the words that they have.
To add point to this success, he knew that the victor of Montebello was straining every nerve to gain this very prize.
It is painful to add, that the latter years of his life were passed in prison, where he was confined for debt.
Must I add, that your good money paid this second loan—and yet a third—a fourth—a fifth?
The Federal Reserve Board reserves the right to add to, alter, or amend these regulations.
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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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