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verb
(past & past part. added; pres. part. adding)
1.
Make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of.  "She added a personal note to her letter" , "Add insult to injury" , "Add some extra plates to the dinner table"
2.
State or say further.  Synonyms: append, supply.
3.
Bestow a quality on.  Synonyms: bestow, bring, contribute, impart, lend.  "The music added a lot to the play" , "She brings a special atmosphere to our meetings" , "This adds a light note to the program"
4.
Make an addition by combining numbers.  Synonym: add together.
5.
Determine the sum of.  Synonyms: add together, add up, sum, sum up, summate, tally, tot, tot up, total, tote up.
6.
Constitute an addition.
noun
1.
A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.  Synonyms: ADHD, attention deficit disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, hyperkinetic syndrome, MBD, minimal brain damage, minimal brain dysfunction.



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... I add that the whole duty of a Cock is to be an embodied crimson cry! And when a Cock is not that, it matters little that his comb be shaped like a toadstool, or his quills twisted like a screw, he will soon vanish and be heard of no more, having been nothing but a ...
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... circumstances under which the subjoined correspondence took place. The spirit of independence it displays is equally honourable to all parties. At the date of these letters Lord Buckingham's first session had just commenced; and it is scarcely necessary to add, that Mr. Curran took his seat amongst the opponents of ...
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... shall have replaced the sewer, which is a simple impoverishing washing, then, this being combined with the data of a now social economy, the product of the earth will be increased tenfold, and the problem of misery will be singularly lightened. Add the suppression of parasitism, and ...
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