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  [ad]
Use added in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. 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.
2. to find the sum of (often fol. by up): Add this column of figures. Add up the grocery bills.
3. to say or write further.
4. to include (usually fol. by in): Don't forget to add in the tip.
–verb (used without object)
5. to perform the arithmetic operation of addition: children learning to add and subtract.
6. to be or serve as an addition (usually fol. by to): His illness added to the family's troubles.
–noun
7. Journalism. copy added to a completed story.
—Verb phrase
8. add up to, to signify; indicate: The evidence adds up to a case of murder.
—Idiom
9. add up,
a. to make the desired, expected, or correct total: These figures don't add up right.
b. to seem reasonable or consistent; be in harmony or accord: Some aspects of the story didn't add up.
Origin:
1325–75; ME adden < L addere, equiv. to ad- ad- + -dere to put (comb. form; see do 1 )

Related forms:
add⋅a⋅ble, add⋅i⋅ble, adjective
add⋅ed⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. affix, append, attach, adjoin. 2. total, sum.
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add   (ād)   
v.   add·ed, add·ing, adds

v.   tr.
  1. To combine (a column of figures, for example) to form a sum.
  2. To join or unite so as to increase in size, quantity, quality, or scope: added 12 inches to the deck; flowers that added beauty to the dinner table.
  3. To say or write further.
v.   intr.
  1. To find a sum in arithmetic.
    1. To constitute an addition: an exploit that will add to her reputation.
    2. To create or make an addition: gradually added to my meager savings.
Phrasal Verb(s):
add up
  1. To be reasonable, plausible, or consistent; make sense: The witness's testimony simply did not add up.
  2. To amount to an expected total: a bill that didn't add up.
  3. To formulate an opinion of: added up the other competitors in one glance.

Idiom(s):
add up toTo constitute; amount to: The revisions added up to a lot of work.

[Middle English adden, from Latin addere : ad-, ad- + dare, to give; see dō- in Indo-European roots.]
add'a·ble, add'i·ble adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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