append

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.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ʌˈpɛnd/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈpɛnd/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnd
• Homophone: upend

append (third-person singular simple present appends, present participle appending, simple past and past participle appended)

1. (transitive) To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended

   a seal appended to a record

   An inscription was appended to the column.

2. (transitive) To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex

   notes appended to a book chapter

3. (computing) To write more data to the end of a pre-existing file, string, or other object.

append (plural appends)

1. (computing) An instance of writing more data to the end of an existing file.
   • 1997, Jeffrey H. Kingston, Algorithms and Data Structures, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2007, Jeff LeSueur, Marketing Automation: Practical Steps to More Effective Direct Marketing, →ISBN:

     Logging can be used to back out bad data, be it an overwrite of existing data or an append of new data.

   • 2016, Sibsankar Haldar, SQLite Database System Design and Implementation:

     When a file is created or expanded due to an append of new data to the file, new blocks are allocated to the file.

• “append”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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append

1. third-person singular present indicative of appendre