Definition of "add" []

• To combine (a column of figures, for example) to form a sum. (verb-transitive)
• To join or unite so as to increase in size, quantity, quality, or scope: added 12 inches to the deck; flowers that added beauty to the dinner table. (verb-transitive)
• To say or write further. (verb-transitive)
• To find a sum in arithmetic. (verb-intransitive)
• To constitute an addition: an exploit that will add to her reputation. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "After reading her comment, the only thing I would add is that properly-rotated cattle or bison eating grass actually *add* an inch of topsoil to the earth each year."
• "That sort of responsibility has to come from inside a person, and with no incentive to add to what is already a perfect system i.e, live in maid and sexbot, why would men *add* to the resources of the nuclear family?"
• "Slide 8: 它们的使用方法都相同： my $add = $memcached - > add ( '键', '值', '期限'); my"