append

[uh-pend]

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verb (used with object)

to add as a supplement, accessory, or appendix; subjoin: to append a note to a letter.

to attach or suspend as a pendant.

to sign a document with; affix: to append one's signature to a will.

Origin of append

1640–50; < Latin appendere, equivalent to ap- ap-¹ + -pendere to hang (transitive)

Related formsmis·ap·pend·ed, adjectiveun·ap·pend·ed, adjective

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Related Words for append

affix, annex, fix, conjoin, hang, attach, supplement, adjoin, fasten, subjoin

Examples from the Web for append

Contemporary Examples of append

Just append “/tweber/socialmedia” to your search terms when using Blekko.
Testing the New Google Killer
Thomas E. Weber
November 3, 2010
Random House lawyers were not so convinced and told him to append a complete list of citations at the back of the book.
Have We Given Up on Fiction?
Tom Shone
March 17, 2010

Historical Examples of append

I append her experience as nearly as possible as she is stated to have told it.
Scottish Ghost Stories
Elliott O'Donnell
They contain so much valuable information we are induced to append them.
Guano
Solon Robinson
I append a brief report of one case which came under my own observation.
The Sexual Life of the Child
Albert Moll
Get it translated, and append it as a note to the next edition.
My Recollections of Lord Byron
Teresa Guiccioli
It has only seemed feasible to append some comparisons with Yuki and Miwok beliefs.
Pomo Bear Doctors
Samuel Alfred Barrett

British Dictionary definitions for append

append

verb (tr)

to add as a supplementto append a footnote

to attach; hang on

Word Origin for append

C15: from Late Latin appendere to hang (something) from, from Latin pendere to hang

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Word Origin and History for append

late 14c., "to belong to as a possession or right," from Old French apendre (13c.) belong, be dependent (on); attach (oneself) to; hang, hang up," and directly from Latin appendere "to cause to hang (from something), weigh," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + pendere "hang" (see pendant).

Meaning "to hang on, attach as a pendant" is 1640s; that of "attach as an appendix" is recorded by 1843. OED says the original word was obsolete by c.1500, and these later transitive senses represent a reborrowing from Latin or French. Related: Appended; appending.