append

verb

ap·pend | \ ə-ˈpend

appended; appending; appends

Definition of append

transitive verb

1 : attach, affix appended a diagram to the instructions

2 : to add as a supplement or appendix (as in a book) notes appended to each chapter

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Append is a somewhat formal word. Lawyers, for example, often speak of appending items to other documents, and lawmakers frequently append small bills to big ones, hoping that everyone will be paying attention only to the main part of the big bill and won't notice. When we append a small separate section to the end of a report or a book, we call it an appendix. But in the early years of e-mail, the words we decided on were attach and attachment, probably because appendixes are thought of as unimportant, whereas the attachment is often the whole reason for sending an e-mail.

Examples of append in a Sentence

append the prefix “un-” to each of these words

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Kim Sanchez, the owner of Sweet Dixie Kitchen—who happened to be the Popeyes smuggler Tyler had spotted—doubled down on her decision in a response appended to Tyler’s Yelp post. — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, "The Popeyes Chicken Sandwich Is Here to Save America," 20 Aug. 2019 At the next higher tier, a specific village name might be appended; for example, Mâcon-Pierreclos or Mâcon-Vergisson. — Fortune, "Wine Drinkers Should Pay More Attention to This Lesser-Known Spot in Burgundy," 10 Aug. 2019 Art museums now seem to feel that topical relevance is somehow served by appending recent art to exhibitions otherwise anchored in a historical epoch. — Los Angeles Times, "Review: Unicorns are just one of the wild rides in the Getty’s marvelous ‘Book of Beasts’," 23 July 2019 That means the passwords were appended with a unique string of text and then passed through a one-way hash function. — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, "Hackers breach Quora.com and steal password data for 100 million users," 4 Dec. 2018 President Bush signed the bill, but appended a signing statement that could be read to claim the power to disregard such restrictions under his inherent constitutional power. — Byron Tau, WSJ, "Kavanaugh Pledges Fairness as Supreme Court Justice," 5 Sep. 2018 Following the thread's initial popularity, Foone appended a few small corrections to the summary of the long, convoluted history. — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, "This Modern-Day Computer Bug Dates Back to 1974," 5 Nov. 2018 Facebook researchers describe using 3.5 billion public Instagram photos—carrying 17,000 hashtags appended by users—to train algorithms to categorize images for themselves. — Tom Simonite, WIRED, "Your Instagram #Dogs and #Cats Are Training Facebook's AI," 2 May 2018 That’s likely the idea behind appending the Charlottesville footage to the end of the film (something, again, that wasn’t in the original plan for the film), which includes Duke’s vocal praise of Trump. — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, "Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman draws a ham-fisted line from white supremacy’s past to its present," 15 May 2018

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append

verb

ap·pend | \ ə-ˈpend

appended; appending

Kids Definition of append

: to add as something extra append a postscript

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