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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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... there, though we're trying to capture or run them off the Range. And a wild stud will always try to add mares to his band. Because he has fought many times to keep or take mares, he is a formidable and vicious opponent, one that an imported, tamed stud can rarely best. Right now, coming into Big Rock well for water is a pinto that has killed three ...
— Rebel Spurs • Andre Norton
... let me add one word more. All this that I have been saying, and all the blessed strength for ourselves and calming in our sorrows which result therefrom, stand or fall with the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. There is nothing else that makes these things certain. There ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) • Alexander Maclaren
... eyes and hair are richly brown. Slender, graceful, perennially neat, she represents the mother beautiful, the wife inspiring, the friend beloved. Happily as we have seen her start a new day for Dick, did she always add some cheer, some fineness of touch, some joy of word, some stimulating helpfulness to ...
— Our Nervous Friends - Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness • Robert S. Carroll
... long story short, the lady on satisfying herself that we were asleep, never said her prayers at all; during the remainder of her visit whenever she found us awake she always said them, but when she thought we were asleep, she never prayed. It is needless to add that we had the matter out with her before she left, and that the consequences were unpleasant for all parties; they added to the troubles in which we were already involved as to our prayers, and were indirectly among the earliest causes which ...
— The Fair Haven • Samuel Butler
... peruse, that I might confirm what the author relates so far as he agrees with what I have learnt concerning the affairs of navigation, the kingdoms on the coast, and the state of the countries of which he treats, and that I might add what I have elsewhere collected concerning these matters: I find that this book was composed in the year of the Hegira 237, and that the accounts given by the author are conformable with what I ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 1 • Robert Kerr


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