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verb
(past & past part. added; pres. part. adding)
1.
Make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of.  "She added a personal note to her letter" , "Add insult to injury" , "Add some extra plates to the dinner table"
2.
State or say further.  Synonyms: append, supply.
3.
Bestow a quality on.  Synonyms: bestow, bring, contribute, impart, lend.  "The music added a lot to the play" , "She brings a special atmosphere to our meetings" , "This adds a light note to the program"
4.
Make an addition by combining numbers.  Synonym: add together.
5.
Determine the sum of.  Synonyms: add together, add up, sum, sum up, summate, tally, tot, tot up, total, tote up.
6.
Constitute an addition.
noun
1.
A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.  Synonyms: ADHD, attention deficit disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, hyperkinetic syndrome, MBD, minimal brain damage, minimal brain dysfunction.



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... as if he thought he had knocked us into a cocked hat by that assault we repulsed so easily. He has been kind enough, too, to remind me that Breisach, Regensburg, Gross-Glogau, and Leipzig have all been besieged and taken by the Swedes, and to add that it is quite out of the question for a badly fortified place like Freiberg to withstand his power. We are not to count on any assistance, and if I reject his present kind offers he will take the place by storm, and will not spare even the babe ...
— The Young Carpenters of Freiberg - A Tale of the Thirty Years' War • Anonymous
... with me on these occasions, I am sorry to say that I felt rather frightened; and, now that some of the enthusiasm had gone out of me, and I began to calmly contemplate what we had undertaken to do, truth compels me to add that I did not like it. We were but thirty men all told, a good many of whom were no doubt quite unused to fighting, and we were going to engage two hundred and fifty of the fiercest, bravest, and most formidable savages in Africa, who, ...
— Allan Quatermain • by H. Rider Haggard
... be noted, is set on a slant to add comfort. Thoroughly clean all the parts and assemble them, using good hot glue. Put the back together first, then the front. After these have dried, put the ...
— Mission Furniture - How to Make It, Part 2 • H. H. Windsor
... I may add that Ivan appeared at the time in the light of a mediator between his father and his elder brother Dmitri, who was in open quarrel with his father and even planning to bring an ...
— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... his wife would add weight to the protest, but they remained silent, staring curiously at the inventor, as, indeed, they had throughout. Now she thought of it, she realized that the two had remained practically aloof from the discussion that ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1917 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various


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