Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To add as a supplement or appendix.
  • transitive verb To fix to; attach.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To belong; pertain.
  • To hang or attach as a proper part, possession, or accompaniment, as a pendant; suspend: as, a seal appended to a record.
  • To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; subjoin; annex.
  • Synonyms To join, superadd, affix.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended
  • transitive verb To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was appended to the column.
  • verb transitive To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex; as, notes appended to this chapter.
  • verb computing To write more data to the end of a pre-existing file.
  • noun computing An instance of writing more data to the end of an existing file.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb add to the very end
  • verb fix to; attach
  • verb state or say further

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin appendere, to hang upon : ad-, ad- + pendere, to hang; see (s)pen- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin appendō ("hang something upon something, suspend on") or French appendre: compare with Old English appenden, apenden ("to belong"), Old French apendre, French appendre, from Latin appendere, present active infinitive of appendō ("hang something upon something, suspend on"); from ad ("on, upon, against") + pendō ("I suspend, hang"). See pendant.

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Examples

  • I offered her the right of reply, but she has declined except to say: "The only thing you need append is that your opinion was formed without reading the work".

    God to be proved on March 14th Ray Girvan 2005

  • I call append on this element to populate it with data.

    doggdot.us 2009

  • Here is a simple example ... def append (arg) {println "you called the append method and passed $ {arg}" def doIt () {def closure = {append 'Jeff was here.' def buffer = new StringBuffer () closure. delegate = buffer

    Javalobby - The heart of the Java developer community brownj 2008

  • For each alias append "OR you@alias" in From and To field of the filter criteria.

    Black Sweater, White Cat biotic 2010

  • Write an XDV "append" or "prepend" rule to copy these elements over.

    Softpedia - Windows - All 2010

  • Other than that, when you 'append' the files back together, they should be seamless if your split was at the proper location.

    VideoHelp.com Forum 2009

  • After that, do you think i will be able to put the 2 files together (to make my final video) without any problem (with the fonction "append")?

    VideoHelp.com Forum 2009

  • You simply specify this attribute, with the value of "append" at the parent element where such aggregation should occur, and Maven will switch its merge behavior for that element's children.

    Dashboard RSS Feed Paul Gier 2009

  • I've tried the new value string from you and insert mode = "append" to my procedure call.

    ASP.NET Forums Waldie 2009

  • After that, do you think i will be able to put the 2 files together (to make my final video) without any problem (with the fonction "append")?

    VideoHelp.com Forum 2009

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