append
Plural: appends
Verb
Verb Forms: appended, appending, appends
- To add something as an attachment or supplement.
- add to the very end
- "He appended a glossary to his novel where he used an invented language"
- fix to; attach
- "append a charm to the necklace"
- state or say further
- To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended
- To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex
- To write more data to the end of a pre-existing file, string, or other object.
Noun
- An instance of writing more data to the end of an existing file.
Examples
- a seal appended to a record
- An inscription was appended to the column.
- Just append an ’S’ to my word if you want an easy nine points.
- notes appended to a book chapter
Origin / Etymology
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.
Synonyms
add, add on, affix, hang on, supplement, supply, tack, tack on, tag on
Scrabble Score: 11
append: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordappend: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
append: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary