Meaning & use

add

verb·Everyday

To combine numbers or amounts to find their total, or to put something together with something else to increase it.

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If you add the numbers seven and five together, you get twelve.

She added a pinch of salt to bring out the flavor of the soup.

A note on using this word

Add is used both in arithmetic, meaning to find a sum, and more generally, meaning to include something extra.

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