APPEND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does append mean? 

• APPEND (verb)
  The verb APPEND has 3 senses:

1. add to the very end

2. fix to; attach

3. state or say further

  Familiarity information: APPEND used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPEND (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they append    ... he / she / it appends   
Past simple: appended   
Past participle: appended   
-ing form: appending   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Add to the very end

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

add on; affix; append; supplement

Context example:

He appended a glossary to his novel where he used an invented language

Hypernyms (to "append" is one way to...):

attach (cause to be attached)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "append"):

annex (attach to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Derivation:

appendage (a part that is joined to something larger)

appendant (affixed as an appendage)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fix to; attach

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

append; hang on; tack; tack on; tag on

Context example:

append a charm to the necklace

Hypernyms (to "append" is one way to...):

attach (cause to be attached)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "append"):

subjoin (add to the end)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Derivation:

appendage (a part that is joined to something larger)

Sense 3

Meaning:

State or say further

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

add; append; supply

Context example:

'It doesn't matter,' he supplied

Hypernyms (to "append" is one way to...):

say; state; tell (express in words)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "append"):

insert; slip in; sneak in; stick in (insert casually)

toss in (add casually to a conversation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sentence example:

They append that there was a traffic accident

 Context examples 

“I say what I think, sir,” the sailor answered courageously, not failing at the same time in ship courtesy, which demanded that “sir” be appended to each speech he made.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Here and there a brief remark was appended to a date, usually no more than a single word: double occurring perhaps six times in a total of several hundred entries; and once very early in the list and followed by several marks of exclamation, total failure!!!

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The record lasted over nearly twenty years, the amount of the separate entries growing larger as time went on, and at the end a grand total had been made out after five or six wrong additions, and these words appended, Bones, his pile.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

"They carried him into my house," appended Jordan, "because we lived just two doors from the church. And he stayed three weeks, until Daddy told him he had to get out. The day after he left Daddy died." After a moment she added as if she might have sounded irreverent, "There wasn't any connection."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)