(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.
Dismemberment
Definition:
(n.) The act of dismembering, or the state of being dismembered; cutting in piece; m/tilation; division; separation.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a statement to the UN's general assembly last summer, Ramgoolam said: "The dismemberment of part of our territory, the Chagos archipelago – prior to independence – by the then colonial power, the United Kingdom, in clear breach of international law, leaves the process of decolonisation not only of Mauritius, but of Africa , incomplete."
(2) 11 cases were classified as defensive and 16 cases as offensive dismemberment of bodies (among these: 2 cases of dismemberment after stealing the corpse and 2 cases of killing the victims by decapitation).
(3) Findings suggest that a high percent of advertisements: (1) place women in submissive positions to men; (2) place women in unnatural poses; (3) emphasize dismemberment of body parts; (4) focus on sexuality rather than wellness.
(4) Pro-Russia activists point out that one obvious outcome of events has been the complete dismemberment of Odessa’s pro-Russia political movement.
(5) But strengthening the Kurdish army, with the UK already supplying military equipment, could speed up the creation of an independent Kurdish state and the dismemberment of Iraq.
(6) We are seated on sofas in a cavernous, wood-floored room in his Los Angeles base, Studio Della Morte, where instruments (several gongs, a discarded accordion on the floor) compete for space with macabre props (cow skulls, dolls in various states of metamorphosis or dismemberment) and oddball paintings (a hare with boxing gloves).
(7) And we found one: this year’s winner has written – at a variety of lengths up to and including books – on subjects from WikiLeaks to the dismemberment of Ukraine and the surveillance revelations of Edward Snowden .” Harding was the Guardian’s Moscow bureau chief from 2007 until 2011, when the Kremlin expelled him from the country in the first case of its kind since the cold war.
(8) In the exercise of such authority they will take such steps, including the complete dismemberment of Germany, as they deem requisite for future peace and security."
(9) He gave fierce lectures decrying the dismemberment of music libraries (especially his beloved Henry Watson music library in Manchester), and the decline of Latin and classical music provision in schools.
(10) 12 cases were classified as defensive and 14 cases as offensive dismemberment of bodies; 2 cases of necrophilous dismemberment occurred after stealing the corpse and 3 victims were killed by intravital decapitation or mutilation.
(11) Meanwhile Mr Letwin successfully urged Lady Thatcher to “use Scotland as a trail-blazer”, a discriminatory approach for which the Conservative party is still paying in Scotland and of which the ultimate price may yet be the dismemberment of the United Kingdom.
(12) In fact, limb dismemberment is something of a general Star Wars trope , with Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader (twice) and Samuel L Jackson’s Mace Windu all losing body parts over the course of the six movies.
(13) It is a competitive field as to when this event happened but the pointless, unnecessary dismemberment of the 115-year-old UK record company has to be in the dismal top 10.
(14) Cameron and his gang will surely not dare to continue the dismemberment of the NHS after this.
(15) Nine cases of defensive corpse dismemberment are reported.
(16) They fear dismemberment with all the emotion (and anxiety) you discover when you talk Kashmir in Delhi.
(17) The creation of descendants with the same hereditary factors is possible in mammals up to now only by the dismemberment of the germ up to the eight-cell-stage.
(18) 2.55pm BST Brazil bashing Phil Scolari suggested in the aftermath of his dull team's dismemberment by Germany that he bore most of the blame.
(19) The psychological problems doctors experience with dismemberment of the fetus may be relieved with development of new techniques.
(20) 31 cases of criminal dismemberment or mutilation were investigated in the period from 1959 to 1987 at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Hamburg.