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ap⋅pend

[uh-pend]

–verb (used with object)

1.	to add as a supplement, accessory, or appendix; subjoin: to append a note to a letter.

2.	to attach or suspend as a pendant.

3.	to sign a document with; affix: to append one's signature to a will.

Origin:
1640–50; < L appendere, equiv. to ap- ap¹ + -pendere to hang (transit.)

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ap·pend (ə-pěnd')

tr.v. ap·pend·ed, ap·pend·ing, ap·pends

To add as a supplement or appendix: appended a list of errors to the report.
To fix to; attach: append a charm to the bracelet.

[Latin appendere, to hang upon : ad-, ad- + pendere, to hang; see (s)pen- in Indo-European roots.]

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Append

Ap*pend"\ ([a^]p*p[e^]nd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Appended; p. pr. & vb. n. Appending.] [L. appendere or F. appendre: cf. OE. appenden, apenden, to belong, OF. apendre, F. appendre, fr. L. append[=e]re, v. i., to hang to, append[e^]re, v. t., to hang to; ad + pend[=e]re, v. i., to hang, pend[e^]re, v. t., to hang. See Pendant.]

1. To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was appended to the column.

2. To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex; as, notes appended to this chapter.

A further purpose appended to the primary one. --I. Taylor.

append

1646, "to hang on, attach as a pendant," from L. appendere "to cause to hang (from something), weigh," from ad- "to" + pendere "hang" (see pendant). Meaning "to attach as an appendix" is first recorded 1843. Appendage first recorded 1649.

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