add

To join or unite (e.g. one thing to another, or as several particulars) so as to increase the number, augment the quantity, or enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate.

Noun

  1. The addition of a song to a station's playlist.
    • In a typical week, 10 to 15 songs may be up for consideration as “adds” of new songs for the station's playlist. - 2006, David Baskerville, Music Business Handbook and Career Guide, page 370:
    • Effectiveness of their work is measured by the number of “adds” they receive on the airplay charts of major trades. - 2013, Russ Hepworth-Sawyer, From Demo to Delivery:
  2. An act or instance of adding.
    • List the number of adds and multiplies for each of the forms (6) , (7), and (8). - 2004, C. K. Birdsall, A. B. Langdon, Plasma Physics via Computer Simulation, page 75:
  3. An additional enemy that joins a fight after the primary target.
    • When the player has fought the boss for one minute, two adds will arrive from the back and must be dealt with.

Origin

From Middle English adden, from Latin addō (“add, give unto”).

Forms

adds

Verb

  1. To join or unite (e.g. one thing to another, or as several particulars) so as to increase the number, augment the quantity, or enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate.
  2. To sum up; to put together mentally; to add up.
    • to add numbers
    • […]as easily as he can add together the ideas of two days or two years. - 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […],...
    • I could add and subtract and multiply and divide, but I entered the wilderness when words became equations. - 2022 August 7, Alec Wilkinson, “Could learning algebra in my 60s make me smarter?”, in The Guardian, archived...
  3. To combine elements of (something) into one quantity.
    • to add a column of numbers
  4. To give by way of increased possession (to someone); to bestow (on).
    • The Lord shall add to me another son. - 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 30:24:
    • Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings. - 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […];...
  5. To append (e.g. a statement); to say further information.
    • He added that he would willingly consent to the entire abolition of the tax - 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V),...
    • "Bless your dear heart," she said, "I am sure I can tell you of a way to get back to Kansas." Then she added, "But, if I do, you must give me the Golden Cap." - 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The...
  6. To intensify; to augment; to increase.
    • It adds to our anxiety.
    • I will add to your yoke - 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 12:14:
    • Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial.[…]Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism. Dr Yoshimoto and his colleagues would like to add liver cancer...
  7. To perform the arithmetical operation of addition.
    • He adds rapidly.
  8. To summon minions or reinforcements.
    • Typically, a hostile mob will add whenever it's within the aggro radius of a player.
  9. To add someone as a friend.

Forms

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Synonyms

annex add up sum bestow give coalesce join unite mention note augment increase add lend append tack

Antonyms

subtract remove

Hypernyms

augment join

Hyponyms

affix subjoin underjoin

Related

addend

Derived

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