
noun
- a component, as a video card or chip, added to a computer to expand its capabilities.
- a small software program that adds a feature to another application.
verb (used with object)
- to unite or join so as to increase the number, quantity, size, or importance: to add two cups of sugar; to add a postscript to her letter; to add insult to injury.
- to find the sum of (often followed by up): Add this column of figures. Add up the grocery bills.
- to say or write further.
- to include (usually followed by in): Don’t forget to add in the tip.
verb (used without object)
- to perform the arithmetic operation of addition: children learning to add and subtract.
- to be or serve as an addition (usually followed by to): His illness added to the family’s troubles.
noun
- Journalism. copy added to a completed story.
Verb Phrases
- add up to, to signify; indicate: The evidence adds up to a case of murder.
- add up,
- to make the desired, expected, or correct total: These figures don’t add up right.
- to seem reasonable or consistent; be in harmony or accord: Some aspects of the story didn’t add up.
verb
- to combine (two or more numbers or quantities) by addition
- (tr foll by to) to increase (a number or quantity) by another number or quantity using addition
- (tr often foll by to) to join (something) to something else in order to increase the size, quantity, effect, or scope; unite (with)to add insult to injury
- (intr foll by to) to have an extra and increased effect (on)her illness added to his worries
- (tr) to say or write further
- (tr foll by in) to include
noun
- informal an instance of adding someone to one’s list of contacts on a social networking site, esp MySpaceThanks for the add!
abbreviation for
- attention deficit disorder
late 14c., “to join or unite (something to something else),” from Latin addere “add to, join, attach, place upon,” from ad- “to” (see ad-) + -dere comb. form meaning “to put, place,” from dare “to give” (see date (n.1)). Meaning “to do sums, do addition” also is from late 14c. Related: Added; adding. To add up “make sense” is from 1942.
abbr.
- attention deficit disorder
- Abbreviation of attention deficit disorder