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adding
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | simple arithmetical process of increase; accumulation |
| Synonyms: | calculate, cast, compute, count, count up, do addition, enumerate, figure, reckon, reckon up, sum, summate, tally, tot, tot up, total, tote |
| Notes: | ad is short for advertisement while add means 'to join or unite' so as to increase in size, quantity, quality, or scope |
| Antonyms: | subtract |
| Main Entry: | addition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | process of conjoining, adding |
| Synonyms: | accession, adding, adjoining, affixing, annexation, attachment, augmentation, enlargement, extension, inclusion, increasing |
| Notes: | an addition is something that, when added, serves simply to augment or extend that to which it has been added, leaving the character of the original unchanged; an addendum forms a separate distinguishable portion of the whole and it first meant 'a thing to be added' |
| Antonyms: | decrease, deduction, lessening, loss, reduction, shrinkage, subtraction, withdrawal |
| Main Entry: | addition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | arithmetical process of augmentation |
| Synonyms: | accretion, accruing, adding, computing, counting, enlarging, expanding, increasing, reckoning, summation, summing, tabulating, totaling, toting |
| Notes: | an addition is something that, when added, serves simply to augment or extend that to which it has been added, leaving the character of the original unchanged; an addendum forms a separate distinguishable portion of the whole and it first meant 'a thing to be added' |
| Antonyms: | subtraction |
| Main Entry: | calculation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | computing, estimating amount |
| Synonyms: | adding, arithmetic, ciphering, computation, counting, dividing, estimate, estimation, figuring, forecast, judgment, multiplying, prediction, reckoning, subtracting, summation, totaling |
| Main Entry: | reckoning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | computation, account |
| Synonyms: | IOU, adding, addition, arithmetic, bad news, bill, calculation, charge, check, ciphering, cost, count, counting, debt, due, estimate, estimation, fee, figuring, grunt*, invoice, score, settlement, statement, summation, tab, working |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | incorporation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inclusion |
| Synonyms: | adding, embodiment, fusion |
| Main Entry: | totalization |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | addition |
| Synonyms: | accretion, accruing, adding, computing, counting, enlarging, expanding, increasing, reckoning, summation, summing, tabulating, totaling, toting |
| Main Entry: | accompany |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | occur with something |
| Synonyms: | add, appear with, append, be connected, belong to, characterize, co-occur, coexist, coincide with, come with, complete, follow, go together, happen with, join with, occur with, supplement, take place with |
| Main Entry: | adjoin |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | attach |
| Synonyms: | add, affix, annex, append, combine, connect, couple, interconnect, join, link, unite |
| Antonyms: | detach |
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