Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To add or attach as a supplement to something at the beginning.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb rare (
transitive ) Topremeditate ; to weigh up mentally. - verb computing, linguistics, transitive To attach (an expression, phrase, etc.) to another, as a
prefix .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Notice in the above that I'm switching the default case for each; the assumption will be that labels prepend content, and input appends. render (), the element will iterate through the various attached decorators, calling render () on each.
Planet PHP 2009
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In this chunck of code, the jQuery "prepend" content manipulation is used to inject the tooltip immediately after the opening body tag.
doggdot.us 2009
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Also, maybe it's just that I'm a fast typer but typing "facebook" and hitting CTRL-ENTER (to prepend "www." and append ". com") seems faster to me than relying on typing a few letters and then selecting from the autofill.
Force Firefox Autofill To Behave By Removing “WWW” URLs | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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And we could prepend to the sign, “Welcome to California, Home of Loyal Americans.”
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Saying "pleased to meet you" is just something you prepend to a conversation, but the sort of spin added by politicians is woven through it.
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Also, maybe it's just that I'm a fast typer but typing "facebook" and hitting CTRL-ENTER to prepend "www." and append ".com" seems faster to me than relying on typing a few letters and then selecting from the autofill.
Force Firefox Autofill To Behave By Removing “WWW” URLs | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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If you're going to call me an economist, however, you should probably prepend "amateur" to that title ;~
The Confirmatory Bias Diet, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I then drag in any relevant files and other emails, set the deadline of the task to the delivery date, and prepend the number of pages to the task title.
I don’t need no stinkin’ job tracking system… « Musings from an overworked translator 2008
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I do believe it is important that teachers are treated with respect and my students do prepend my name with "Mrs."
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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I do believe it is important that teachers are treated with respect and my students do prepend my name with "Mrs."
When did being bored in class deserve disciplinary action? 2007
jonwhite commented on the word prepend
To form the full URL, prepend "http://" to "www.wordnik.com".
July 14, 2009