Crossword clues for adding
adding
- Calculating endeavor
- Totting (up)
- Throwing in
- Tacking on
- Sticking in
- Performing a simple operation
- Making two and two four
- Kindergarten math lesson
- Kind of office machine
- Job for the summer?
- Early arithmetic skill
- Doing the math, in a way
- Counting up
- Contributing (to)
- Arithmetic skill
- Arithmetic chore
- Totaling
- Calculator job
- Simple arithmetic
- Summing
- Summer job?
- Doing sums
- Action for calculating people?
- Arithmetic assignment
- Arithmetic task
- Child's arithmetic lesson
- Sum problem?
- Summing together
- Lacking head protection, though putting two and two together?
- Putting in stuffing, having removed pigeon's head
- Taking a total
- Piling on, say
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Add \Add\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Added; p. pr. & vb. n. Adding.] [L. addere; ad + dare to give, put. Cf. Date, Do.]
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To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on).
The Lord shall add to me another son.
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To join or unite, as one thing to another, or as several particulars, so as to increase the number, augment the quantity, enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate. Hence: To sum up; to put together mentally; as, to add numbers; to add up a column.
Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.
--Milton.As easily as he can add together the ideas of two days or two years.
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To append, as a statement; to say further.
He added that he would willingly consent to the entire abolition of the tax.
--Macaulay.Syn: To Add, Join, Annex, Unite, Coalesce.
Usage: We add by bringing things together so as to form a whole. We join by putting one thing to another in close or continuos connection. We annex by attaching some adjunct to a larger body. We unite by bringing things together so that their parts adhere or intermingle. Things coalesce by coming together or mingling so as to form one organization. To add quantities; to join houses; to annex territory; to unite kingdoms; to make parties coalesce.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of add English)
Usage examples of "adding".
A special test for sulphide may be made by adding a drop or two of solution of acetate of lead to four or five c.
The student must be on his guard against adding a very large excess, which is the commoner error.
It is prepared when wanted in solution, by adding a gram or so of bicarbonate of soda and then as much acid as will decompose the bicarbonate mentioned.
But it is best prepared by adding strong sulphuric acid to ferric hydrate in equivalent proportions.
It may happen that with an unknown ore the first assay will be more or less unsatisfactory: but from it the necessity for adding more or less flour will be learnt, and a second assay, with the necessary modification of the charge, should give a good result.
If this is not satisfactory repeat the assay, adding an extra gram of nitre for each 4 grams of lead in excess of that required, or 1 gram of flour for a 12-gram deficiency.
Dry and transfer to an evaporating dish, adding the ashes of the filter paper.
It is clumsy in practice, for the continued adding of small portions of salt solution is laborious and becomes impossible with more than a few milligrams of silver in solution.
If, after adding excess of silver nitrate to insure a complete precipitation, the arsenate of silver be filtered off, the weight of the arsenic could be estimated from the weight of silver arsenate formed.
This may be tested for by dissolving, say, 2 grams in a little water and adding barium chloride.
On dissolving in hydrochloric acid, neutralising with ammonia, adding 5 c.
Nessler tube and the colour compared with that observed in a similar tube containing water and potassium iodide on adding the standard solution of bismuth.
Made by dissolving 12 grams of tartaric acid and 4 grams of stannous chloride in water, and adding potash solution till it is alkaline.
The solution containing the nickel and cobalt with no great excess of acid, is made alkaline by adding 20 c.
Zinc is detected by dissolving the substance in hydrochloric or nitric acid, boiling, and adding sodic hydrate in excess, filtering, and adding ammonic sulphide to the filtrate.