add

noun

(computer science) An act or instance of adding.

(radio) The addition of a song to a station's playlist.

(video games) An additional enemy that joins a fight after the primary target.

(sound engineering) A designation on prerecorded compact discs indicating that the contents were recorded in analog but mixed and mastered in digital.

(pathology) Initialism of attention deficit disorder. [A syndrome formerly thought to affect children only, but now known also to affect adults, that is characterized by frequent, chronic distractibility, and either inattentiveness or hyperactivity (fidgeting).]

(insurance) Initialism of accidental death and dismemberment.

verb

(transitive) 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.

To sum up; to put together mentally; to add up.

(transitive) To combine elements of (something) into one quantity.

(transitive) To append (e.g. a statement); to say further information.

(transitive) To give by way of increased possession (to someone); to bestow (on).

(intransitive) To intensify; to augment; to increase.

(intransitive, mathematics) To perform the arithmetical operation of addition.

(transitive, Internet, text messaging, video games) To add someone as a friend.

(intransitive, video games) To summon minions or reinforcements.

Roots

addoadd- · Latin · add, give to

Synonyms for add

appendv superadd subjoinv totaladj subtractv combinev augmentv plusn incorporatev attachv includev sumn integratev increasen mixn joinv

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