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/əpˈɛnd/ Listen

verb

Append v. t. (past & past part. appended; pres. part. appending)

To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was appended to the column.

To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex; as, notes appended to this chapter. "A further purpose appended to the primary one."

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Etymology of 'Append'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Append" Quotes from Famous Books

... that the reading of novels almost uniformly operates unfavorably on the female heart. In the first place, fictitious writings are very seldom read, except for the sake of the story. Let the author append a moral to his book, who thinks of stopping to read that? But again, where is the novel, which is an exact transcript of real life? There may be no one character in a work, that is not somewhat natural. Yet are the relations of each to all the others such as those in which we daily see people ...

— The Young Maiden • A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey

... I append a cut (opposite page) from the drawing representing these Kolo-man in the original work from which Bridgman translated, and which is in the possession of ...

— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa

... implies that the apex was turned upwards by so many degrees from the downward direction which it would naturally have followed, and to the side opposite to that to which the card was affixed. That the reader may have a clear idea of the kind of movement excited by the bits of attached card, we append here accurate sketches of three germinating beans thus treated, and selected out of several specimens to show the gradations in the degrees of curvature. We will now give in detail a series of experiments, and afterwards a summary of ...

— The Power of Movement in Plants • Charles Darwin

... and append, a scheme for a course or courses of lectures; a plan for laboratory instruction; another for library work; a sketch of what should be done in the field; and finally, I name a few of the best text-books on the various subdivisions ...

— Anthropology - As a Science and as a Branch of University Education in the United States • Daniel Garrison Brinton

... have engaged her to stop their progress, or even forbear openly assisting them, but her intention of still amusing the queen of Scots, by the hopes of being peaceably restored to her throne. See, further Strype, vol. ii. Append. p. 20.] ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. - From Elizabeth to James I. • David Hume

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