append

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd

Proto-Italic *ad

Proto-Italic *ad-

Latin ad-

Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend-

Proto-Indo-European *(s)péndeti

Proto-Italic *pendō

Latin pendō

Latin appendō

Old French apendrebor.

Middle English appenden

English 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.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛnd
• Homophone: upend

Verb

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.

Derived terms

• appendable
• appendage
• appendant
• appendation
• appender
• appendment
• prepend
• unappended

Translations

to hang or attach to, as by a string

• Bulgarian: окачвам (bg) (okačvam), закачам (bg) (zakačam)
• Dutch: hechten (nl), aanhechten (nl), vastmaken (nl), bevestigen (nl)
• Finnish: liittää (fi), kiinnittää (fi)
• French: appendre (fr), suspendre (fr), ajouter (fr)
• German: heften (de), anheften (de)
• Italian: attaccare (it)
• Persian: پیوندانیدن sg (peyvandānīdan), آویزانیدن sg (avīzānīdan)
• Polish: doczepić (pl), dołączyć (pl)
• Portuguese: atrelar (pt), juntar (pt), apensar (pt), anexar (pt)
• Russian: подвешивать (ru) (podvešivatʹ)
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: آصمق (asmak), طاقمق (takmak)

to add as an accessory

• Breton: ouzhpennañ (br)
• Bulgarian: прибавям (bg) (pribavjam), добавям (bg) (dobavjam), прилагам (bg) (prilagam)
• Catalan: agregar (ca)
• Dutch: toevoegen (nl), bijvoegen (nl)
• Finnish: liittää (fi)
• French: ajouter (fr)
• German: hinzufügen (de), beifügen (de)
• Italian: aggiungere (it)
• Latin: adiungō (la)
• Portuguese: agregar (pt), anexar (pt), apensar (pt)
• Russian: добавлять (ru) (dobavljatʹ)
• Spanish: agregar (es), añadir (es), adjuntar (es), apostillar (es)
• Tagalog: idagdag

Noun

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.

References

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

Anagrams

• napped

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (Canada (Shawinigan)):

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Verb

append

1. third-person singular present indicative of appendre