pre-pend

Verb (1)

prepend (third-person singular simple present prepends, present participle prepending, simple past and past participle prepended)

1. (transitive) To attach (an expression, phrase, etc.) to another, as a prefix.
   • The final cleaned assemblies in GenBank were downloaded, and the contig identifiers were pre-pended with the sample name and haplotype integer (where 1 = paternal and 2 = maternal).2023 May 11, Wen-Wei Liao, Mobin Asri, Jana Ebler, et al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, →DOI

Verb (2)

prepend (third-person singular simple present prepends, present participle prepending, simple past and past participle prepended)

1. (rare, transitive) To premeditate; to weigh up mentally.

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