append
verbEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- Proto-Indo-European *(s)péndeti Proto-Italic *pendō Latin pendō Latin appendō Old French apendrebor. Middle English appenden English 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.
- inherited from appenden
Definitions
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.
To add, as an accessory to the principal thing
To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex
- notes appended to a book chapter
To write more data to the end of a pre-existing file, string, or other object.
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An instance of writing more data to the end of an existing file.
- 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.
- Logging can be used to back out bad data, be it an overwrite of existing data or an append of new data.
- When a file is created or expanded due to an append of new data to the file, new blocks are allocated to the file.
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Derived
appendable, appendage, appendant, appendation, appender, appendment, prepend, unappended
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at append. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at append. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at append
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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