add
verb/æd/
/æd/
Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they add | /æd/ /æd/ |
| he / she / it adds | /ædz/ /ædz/ |
| past simple added | /ˈædɪd/ /ˈædɪd/ |
| past participle added | /ˈædɪd/ /ˈædɪd/ |
| -ing form adding | /ˈædɪŋ/ /ˈædɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] to put something together with something else so as to increase the size, number, amount, etc.
- add something Next add the flour.
- The juice contains no added sugar.
- As an added bonus, the book includes many black-and-white photographs.
- Melt the butter, then add the onion.
- The plan has the added (= extra) advantage of bringing employment to rural areas.
- add something to something Shall I add your name to the list?
- They are looking at ways to add further value to their products.
- There are a number of ways to add emphasis to words on a web page.
- A new wing was added to the building.
- Chlorine is added to the water to kill bacteria.
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- [intransitive, transitive] to put numbers or amounts together to get a total
- He knew how to add and subtract.
- add A to B Add 9 to the total.
- add A and B together If you add all these amounts together you get a huge figure.
- [transitive] to say something more; to make a further remark
- + speech ‘And don't be late,’ she added.
- add something to something I have nothing to add to my earlier statement.
- add something Do you have anything to add?
- add that… He added that they would return a week later.
- ‘The hotel is child-friendly,’ she said, adding that special rates apply to children.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- hastily
- hurriedly
- quickly
- …
- hasten to
- [transitive] add something (to something) to give a particular quality to an event, a situation, etc.
- The suite will add a touch of class to your bedroom.
- The Easter Festival added a new dimension to Salzburg's musical life.
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin addere, from ad- ‘to’ + the base of dare ‘put’.
Idioms
See add in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee add in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishadded to this… | add to this…
- used to introduce another fact that helps to emphasize a point you have already made
- Add to this the excellent service and you can see why it's the most popular hotel on the island.
add insult to injury
- to make a bad relationship with somebody worse by offending them even more
- Then, to add insult to injury, they told me I couldn't get on the flight.
- It adds insult to injury that banks are allowed to increase their charges without our knowledge or consent.
- Only 300 people came to the match and, to add insult to injury, the floodlights went out during the second half.
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