Synonyms for adding
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : ad |
| Phonetic Transcription : æd |
Top 10 synonyms for adding Other synonyms for the word adding
- beef up
- build up
- cast
- charge up
- compute
- count
- count up
- cue in
- do addition
- enumerate
- figure
- figure in
- flesh out
- heat up
- hike
- hike up
- hitch on
- hook on
- hook up with
- jack up
- jazz up
- join together
- pad
- parlay
- piggyback
- plug into
- pour it on
- reckon
- reckon up
- run up
- say further
- slap on
- snowball
- soup up
- speed up
- spike
- step up
- sum
- summate
- supplement
- sweeten
- tack on
- tag
- tally
- tot
- tot up
- total
- tote
Définition of adding
Origin :- late 14c., "to join or unite (something to something else)," from Latin addere "add to, join, attach, place upon," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + -dere comb. form meaning "to put, place," from dare "to give" (see date (n.1)). Meaning "to do sums, do addition" also is from late 14c. Related: Added; adding. To add up "make sense" is from 1942.
- verb simple arithmetical process of increase; accumulation
- verb adjoin, increase; make further comment
- Then stir in the graham flour, adding the nuts while kneading.
- Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 1 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
- So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.
- Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
- Pound the veal also in a mortar, adding butter to it by degrees.
- Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
- It will keep the better for adding to it a wine glass of brandy.
- Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
- By adding to it lemon juice, you may make what is called negus.
- Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
- It will be the better for adding a glass of currant wine also.
- Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
- He wrung his hand, only adding, 'Blind leaders of the blind, Pancks!
- Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
- Work all together into a paste, adding a spoonful of brandy.
- Extract from : « The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; » by Charlotte Campbell Bury
- Then she introduced the two men, adding, "Billy knows all about you already."
- Extract from : « People of Position » by Stanley Portal Hyatt
- Let us go out, if you, indeed, persist in adding to the pain of both of us.
- Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola
Antonyms for adding
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