Meaning & use
add
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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