add
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
add/ad/
▶verb
- 1 join to or put with something else.
- 2 put together (two or more numbers or amounts) to calculate their total value.
■ (add up) increase in amount, number, or degree.
■ (add up to) amount to.
- 3 (add up) informal make sense.
- 4 say as a further remark.
– origin ME: from L. addit-, addere, from ad- ‘to’ + the base of dare ‘put’.
'add' also found in these Oxford entries:
addendum
- adjective
- adorn
- agglomerate
- annex
- annotate
- append
- blog
- bow
- carboxylate
- carburize
- complement
- contribute
- counterpoint
- countersign
- cream
- credit
- decorate
- dollop
- dope
- double
- dress
- dub
- elaborate
- embellish
- embroider
- epithet
- fill
- flesh
- fluoridate
- footnote
- fortify
- gross
- interfacing
- jetton
- lace
- leave
- magic square
- medicate
- mend
- mull
- Pelion
- perfect
- please
- polish
- populate
- postscript
- post-synch
- prefix
