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append
- /ʌˈpɛnd/ US
- /əˈpɛnd/ UK
Sounds like upend · Rhymes with -ɛnd
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)péndeti
Proto-Italic *pendō
Latin pendō
Latin appendō
Old French apendrebor.
Middle English appenden
English append
From Latin appendere (“to hang up, suspend on, pay out”), via Old French apendre, appendre, via Middle English appenden; from ad (“on, upon, against”) + pendere (“to suspend, hang”), equivalent to ad- + pend. Compare with Old English appenden, apenden (“to belong”). See also pendant.
verb appends · appending · appended
- To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended. a seal appended to a record
- To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex. notes appended to a book chapter
- To write more data to the end of a pre-existing file, string, or other object.
noun appends
- An instance of writing more data to the end of an existing file or sequential data structure, such as a list. After recursively sorting the two subsets, the situation is (11,28) 35 (45,50,62) and an append of the three pieces gives the final result.
