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append

UK/əˈpɛnd/US/ʌˈpɛnd/
verbC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — appendix sits at #5,132mostly written

Other forms: appended, appending, appends

To append is to add something at the end. Append a note, appended to the report, append your signature.

It is formal and belongs to documents, and in computing appending to a file adds without rewriting what is there. The Latin means to hang on, which is where appendix and pendant come from too.

Definitions of append

  1. 1verbappendTo add something at the end.C1

    “She appended a short list of sources to her essay.”

append is an adding.

Where it comes from

Latin appendere means to hang on, from ad plus pendere, to hang.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *(s)pend-

  2. Latin

    appendere — to hang up, suspend on, pay out

  3. Middle English

    appenden

  4. English, today

    append

Built from

  • ad · Latin — on, upon, against
  • pendere · Latin — to suspend, hang

From Middle English appenden. 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.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

Practise this word

append in the wild

  • Email appending is a controversial practice in the email marketing world, with critics claiming that sending email to people who never explicitly opted-in is against best practices.

    Email appending

  • An email appending process involves either a business or consumer database made up of contacts including their name, address and company name.

    Email appending

  • Using the append command on the other side, programs are able to find files without recognizing that the command is in effect.

    Dpath

  • Append-only is a property of computer data storage such that new data can be appended to the storage, but where existing data is immutable.

    Append-only

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the pendere family

ponderpenchant

append — used too rare to measure · point at the bar for the others

  • appendix