Add

• POS: Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

Add, v. t. [L. addere; ad + dare to give, put. Cf. Date, Do.].

•  To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on).  [1913 Webster]

  "The Lord shall add to me another son."  [1913 Webster]
•  To join or unite, as one thing to another, or as several particulars, so as to increase the number, augment the quantity, enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate. Hence: To sum up; to put together mentally; as, to add numbers; to add up a column.  [1913 Webster]

  "Back to thy punishment,
  False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings."  [1913 Webster]

  "As easily as he can add together the ideas of two days or two years."  [1913 Webster]
•  To append, as a statement; to say further.  [1913 Webster]

  "He added that he would willingly consent to the entire abolition of the tax."  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- To Add, Join, Annex, Unite, Coalesce.

Add, v. i. 

•  To make an addition. To add to, to augment; to increase; as, it adds to our anxiety.  1 Kings xii. 14.  [1913 Webster]
•  To perform the arithmetical operation of addition; as, he adds rapidly.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Add, v.tr.
1 join (one thing to another) as an increase or supplement (add your efforts to mine; add insult to injury).
2 put together (two or more numbers) to find a number denoting their combined value.
3 say in addition (added a remark; added that I was wrong).

Idiom

add in include. add-on something added to an existing object or quantity. add to increase; be a further item among (this adds to our difficulties). add up
1 find the total of.
2 (foll. by to) amount to; constitute (adds up to a disaster).
3 colloq. make sense; be understandable.

Derivative

added adj.

Etymology

ME f. L addere (as AD-, dare put)

THESAURUS

Add

adjoin, affix, agglutinate, algebraize, amalgamate, annex, append, assimilate, attach, augment, blend, burden, calculate, cast, cipher, clutter, coalesce, combine, come together, complicate, compound, comprise, compute, conjoin, connect, consolidate, cumber, decorate, divide, dope out, embody, encompass, encumber, enlarge, estimate, extract roots, fasten, figure, figure in, figure out, flux, foot, fuse, glue on, hitch on, include, incorporate, increase, infix, integrate, interblend, interfuse, join, join with, lump together, make one, measure, meld, melt into one, merge, mix, multiply, ornament, paste on, plus, postfix, prefix, put together, put with, reckon, reembody, roll into one, saddle, saddle with, score, shade into, slap on, solidify, subjoin, subtract, suffix, sum, summate, superadd, superimpose, superpose, syncretize, syndicate, synthesize, tack on, tag, tag on, take account of, take on, tally, tot, total, tote, unify, unite, unite with, work out

ROGET THESAURUS

Add

Addition

VB add, annex, affix, superadd, subjoin, superpose, clap on, saddle on, tack to, append, tag, ingraft, saddle with, sprinkle, introduce, insert, become added, accrue, advene, supervene, reinforce, reenforce, restrengthen, swell the ranks of, augment.

Numeration

VB number, count, tally, tell, call over, run over, take an account of, enumerate, muster, poll, recite, recapitulate, sum, sum up, cast up, tell off, score, cipher, compute, calculate, suppute, add, subtract, multiply, divide, extract roots, algebraize, check, prove, demonstrate, balance, audit, overhaul, take stock, affix numbers to, page, amount to, add up to, come to.