transcription, транскрипция: [ æd ]
( adds, adding, added)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
If you add one thing to another, you put it in or on the other thing, to increase, complete, or improve it.
Add the grated cheese to the sauce...
Since 1908, chlorine has been added to drinking water...
He wants to add a huge sports complex to Binfield Manor.
VERB : V n to n , be V-ed to n , V n to n , also V n
2.
If you add numbers or amounts together , you calculate their total.
Banks add all the interest and other charges together...
Two and three added together are five.
≠ subtract
VERB : V pl-n with together
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Add up means the same as add .
More than a quarter of seven year-olds cannot add up properly...
We just added all the numbers up and divided one by the other...
He said the numbers simply did not add up.
PHRASAL VERB : V P , V pl-n P , V P
3.
If one thing adds to another, it makes the other thing greater in degree or amount.
This latest incident will add to the pressure on the government...
VERB : V to n
4.
To add a particular quality to something means to cause it to have that quality.
The generous amount of garlic adds flavour...
Pictures add interest to plain painted walls.
VERB : V n , V n to n
5.
If you add something when you are speaking, you say something more.
‘You can tell that he is extremely embarrassed,’ Mr Brigden added...
The President agreed, adding that he hoped for a peaceful solution.
VERB : V with quote , V that
6.
to add insult to injury: see insult