(v. t.) To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on).
(v. t.) To join or unite, as one thing to another, or as several particulars, so as to increase the number, augment the quantity, enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate. Hence: To sum up; to put together mentally; as, to add numbers; to add up a column.
(v. t.) To append, as a statement; to say further.
(v. i.) To make an addition. To add to, to augment; to increase; as, it adds to our anxiety.
(v. i.) To perform the arithmetical operation of addition; as, he adds rapidly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Philip Shaw, chief economist at broker Investec, expects CPI to hit 5.1%, just shy of the 5.2% reached in September 2008, as the utility hikes alone add 0.4% to inflation.
(2) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
(3) The Coalition promises to add more misery to their lives.
(4) Maintenance therapy was always steroid-free to start with (cyclosporin+azathioprine) but in almost one half of our oldest survivors, it failed to avoid rejection and we had to add low-dose oral steroids for at least several months.
(5) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
(6) Continuity of care programs, such as that developed by the Pain Service of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York), with good communication and liaison work between hospital and community, add a much needed dimension to the pain management of these patients in the home.
(7) Will the United fans' eternal favourite soon add his voice to that of 140,000 fans?
(8) Our results show that paramagnetic enhancement with T1-weighted imaging adds specificity and enables rapid assessment of abnormalities of the blood-brain barrier.
(9) This report adds another modification of the standard gastrocnemius muscle flap: transtibial transposition of the muscle through the posterior cortex.
(10) In his biography, Tony Blair admits to having accumulated 70 at one point – "considered by some to be a bit of a constitutional outrage", he adds.
(11) If an inhibitory concentration of Dgalactose was add 24 to 40 hr after mitogenic activation, rate of 3H-thymadine uptake at 72 hr was two to twenty times above the rate induced in cultures to which no galactose was added.
(12) At relapse an additional change, add(2), was present.
(13) Put in a large bowl, add the parsley, oil and lemon juice, and gently toss.
(14) Where Brooks was concerned on the hacking charge, there was very little extra evidence to add to that platform of inference.
(15) I would like to add the spirit within the dressing room, it is much better now.
(16) Tim Potter, managing director of support charity the Fragile X Society , adds that the challenges Tom faces in the film will give "hope and encouragement to many other families".
(17) The results add support for the general significance of AAV-2 and specifically the rep gene as tools for down-regulating heterologous gene expression.
(18) Your gas bills should give a figure for your usage each quarter – but remember you use very little in the summer months, so you'll need to add up the total across all four quarters.
(19) It adds that the number of deals signed in relation to betting shops alone in 2012-13 was 77% greater than the number signed in in 2007-08.
(20) Romanians making Polish wages go down.” Then he adds: “The Romanian, he not the worst.
Dad
Definition:
(n.) Father; -- a word sometimes used by children.
Example Sentences:
(1) To many he was a rockstar, to me he was simply 'Dad', and I loved him hugely.
(2) The reason I liked them was because they were a band, and my dad had a band.
(3) My dad had just died, and he was born on the very same day, in the very same year.
(4) Prince was named after his father's own stage persona, and when his parents split up he became determined to better his dad on piano.
(5) If he was a cartoon character, he’d be … On looks alone, American Dad’s Stan Smith .
(6) It will make entering the market more difficult still for new buyers, further highlighting the importance of the right timing, advice, support and financial planning; and not just having a mum and dad who bought a house, but a grandparent, too.” Average UK house price reaches £288,000 Read more The average property price in the UK, currently £283,565, is expected to double by 2030, breaking through the £500,000 mark to £557,444.
(7) I saw my dad sitting in the audience, looking at me like, “Yes, he really is crazy.” Having listened to thousands of people, I realised we had a narrow view of what the environment is.
(8) He is Taurus and I'm Pisces; my dad was Pisces and my mum was Taurus.
(9) DADs may reach a magnitude in which extrinsic interventions may not adequately terminate sustained triggered activity.
(10) Flaviu, a two-year-old male about the size of a cocker spaniel, arrived at the zoo from a park in Kent after being separated from his mum and dad for the first time.
(11) Multivariate techniques for LC-DAD data are shown to suffer from inherent limitations of sensitivity for the minor components.
(12) When we reached our summit, or whatever spot was deemed by my father to be of adequately punishing distance from the car to deserve lunch, Dad would invariably find he had forgotten his Swiss army knife (looking back, I begin to doubt he ever had one) and instead would cut cheese into slices with the edge of his credit card.
(13) Not just going to a live show, but that kind of live show, with that kind of audience, the kind where mums and dads either have to tag along or turn up at the end to pick their children up.
(14) "It's made him more real, more of a person for me, whereas when I was a little girl I would say to my friends 'My dad died in the war' but it didn't mean anything to me because I never knew him.
(15) I cook, I save money, I do my own thing.’ Photograph: Antonio Olmos Laura: 'I couldn't live at home with my dad any longer.
(16) There they are, drinking again.’” Harper is a loner – a suburban boy who went trainspotting with his dad; whose asthma stopped him playing ice hockey That scorn appears to have interrupted the clever student’s journey to the top of the class.
(17) "But my dad ran a furniture business, which he lost at the time of the Great Recession before dying of a brain haemorrhage," he says.
(18) The road to gaining nearly 1.2 billion monthly active users has seen the mums, dads, aunts and uncles of the generation who pioneered Facebook join it too, spamming their walls with inspirational quotes and images of cute animals, and (shock, horror) commenting on their kids' photos.
(19) Throughout his life, Dad observed the rule that profanity – effing and blinding as he called it – should be confined to workplaces and other all-male venues where men gathered outside the earshot of women and children.
(20) In his V-neck sweater, dad jeans and white New Balance sneakers, Michael Lewis doesn’t look like a troublemaker.