Meanings
present singular third person appends · participle present appending · participle past appended · past appended
- transitiveTo hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended.
a seal appended to a record
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An inscription was appended to the column.
- computingTo write more data to the end of a pre-existing file, string, or other object.
plural appends
- computingAn instance of writing more data to the end of an existing file or sequential data structure, such as a list.
Logging can be used to back out bad data, be it an overwrite of existing data or an append of new data.
2007, Jeff LeSueur, Marketing Automation: Practical Steps to More Effective Direct Marketing, →ISBN2 more examples
After recursively sorting the two subsets, the situation is (11,28) 35 (45,50,62) and an append of the three pieces gives the final result.
1997, Jeffrey H. Kingston, Algorithms and Data Structures, →ISBNWhen a file is created or expanded due to an append of new data to the file, new blocks are allocated to the file.
2016, Sibsankar Haldar, SQLite Database System Design and Implementation
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
- Proto-Italic*ad
- Proto-Italic*ad-
- Latinad-
- Proto-Indo-European*(s)pend-
- Proto-Indo-European*(s)péndeti
- Proto-Italic*pendō
- Latinpendō
- Latinappendō
- Old Frenchapendre
- Middle Englishappenden
- Englishappend
From Latin appendere (“to hang up, suspend on, pay out”), via Old French apendre, appendre, via Middle English appenden; from ad (“on, upon, against”) + pendere (“to suspend, hang”), equivalent to ad- + pend. Compare with Old English appenden, apenden (“to belong”). See also pendant.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian окачвам, закачам
- окачвам (okačvam)to hang or attach to, as by a string
- закачам (zakačam)to hang or attach to, as by a string
- прибавям (pribavjam)to add as an accessory
- добавям (dobavjam)to add as an accessory
- прилагам (prilagam)to add as an accessory
Catalan agregar
- agregarto add as an accessory
Chinese Mandarin 附加, 附上
- 附加 (fùjiā)to hang or attach to, as by a string
- 附上 (fùshàng)to hang or attach to, as by a string
Danish tilføje
- tilføjeto hang or attach to, as by a string
Dutch hechten, aanhechten
- hechtento hang or attach to, as by a string
- aanhechtento hang or attach to, as by a string
- vastmakento hang or attach to, as by a string
- bevestigento hang or attach to, as by a string
- toevoegento add as an accessory
- bijvoegento add as an accessory
Finnish liittää, kiinnittää
- liittääto hang or attach to, as by a string
- kiinnittääto hang or attach to, as by a string
- liittääto add as an accessory
French appendre, suspendre
- appendreto hang or attach to, as by a string
- suspendreto hang or attach to, as by a string
- ajouterto hang or attach to, as by a string
- ajouterto add as an accessory
German heften, anheften
- heftento hang or attach to, as by a string
- anheftento hang or attach to, as by a string
- hinzufügento add as an accessory
- beifügento add as an accessory
Italian attaccare, aggiungere
- attaccareto hang or attach to, as by a string
- aggiungereto add as an accessory
Latin adiungō
- adiungōto add as an accessory
Persian پیوندانیدن, آویزانیدن
- پیوندانیدن (peyvandānīdan)to hang or attach to, as by a string
- آویزانیدن (avīzānīdan)to hang or attach to, as by a string
Polish doczepić, dołączyć
- doczepićto hang or attach to, as by a string
- dołączyćto hang or attach to, as by a string
Portuguese atrelar, juntar
- atrelarto hang or attach to, as by a string
- juntarto hang or attach to, as by a string
- apensarto hang or attach to, as by a string
- anexarto hang or attach to, as by a string
- agregarto add as an accessory
- anexarto add as an accessory
- apensarto add as an accessory
Russian подвешивать, добавлять
- подвешивать (podvešivatʹ)to hang or attach to, as by a string
- добавлять (dobavljatʹ)to add as an accessory
Spanish apostillar, enserir
- apostillarto add as an accessory
- enserirto add as an accessory
- inserirto add as an accessory
- injerirto add as an accessory
Tagalog idagdag
- idagdagto add as an accessory
Rhymes & wordplay
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Cite this entry
append. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/append
“append.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/append. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “append,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/append.
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