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append

UK/əˈpɛnd//ʌˈpɛnd/

append verb: to hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended.

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. To write more data to the end of a pre-existing file, string, or other object.

Noun

append (plural appends)

  1. An instance of writing more data to the end of an existing file or sequential data structure, such as a list.
    • 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.1997, Jeffrey H. Kingston, Algorithms and Data Structures, →ISBN
    • Logging can be used to back out bad data, be it an overwrite of existing data or an append of new data.2007, Jeff LeSueur, Marketing Automation: Practical Steps to More Effective Direct Marketing, →ISBN

append meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

append in Tamil

இணை, ஒட்டு, சேர், பின்னொட்டு, கடையிணைப்பு

append in Urdu

جوڑنا, لگانا, لاحق کرنا, منسلک کرنا

append in Bengali

সংযোজন, সংযোজন করা

append in Malayalam

add, attach, affix
അനുബന്ധിക്കുക, ഘടിപ്പിക്കുക, കൂട്ടിച്ചേർക്കുക, കൂട്ടുക, തൊടുക്കുക, ഏച്ചുകെട്ടുക
More languagesFewer languages
append in Kannada
ಸೇರಿಸು, ಒಟ್ಟು
append in Tagalog
idagdag
append in Persian
پیوندانیدن peyvandānīdan, آویزانیدن avīzānīdan

Examples of append in a sentence

  • Appending items one at a time is still a better deal than concatenation, which reallocates every time.
  • The controls then emit client-side HTML code that is appended to the final page output.
  • Jake occasionally appends an Ed McMahon “Hey-o!” to his own jokes, and Mr.

All 26 example sentences with append

Forms of append

Verb
third-person singular presentappends
present participleappending
past participleappended
pastappended
Noun
pluralappends

Past tense of append: appended

Origin of 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.

Words formed from append

Words that rhyme with append

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Questions about append

What does append mean?
Append means to hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended.
What is append in Tamil?
Append in Tamil is இணை, ஒட்டு, சேர். See Append meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is append?
Append can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce append?
Append is pronounced /ʌˈpɛnd/ (US).
What is the past tense of append?
The past tense of append is appended.

Words near append in the dictionary

  1. appels
  2. Appelt
  3. Appelts
  4. appenage
  5. appenages
  6. append
  7. appendable
  8. appendage
  9. appendageal
  10. appendaged
  11. appendageless

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: append (page history and authors); append (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); append (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); append (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); append (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); append (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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