prepend
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /pɹɪˈpɛnd/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛnd
Etymology 1
[edit]From pre- + (ap)pend, by analogy with append.
Verb
[edit]prepend (third-person singular simple present prepends, present participle prepending, simple past and past participle prepended)
- (computing, linguistics, transitive) To attach (an expression, phrase, etc.) to another, as a prefix.
- 2023 May 11, Wen-Wei LiaoMobin AsriJana Ebleret al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, :
- The final cleaned assemblies in GenBank were downloaded, and the contig identifiers were pre-pended with the sample name and haplotype integer (where 1 = paternal and 2 = maternal).
Translations
[edit]to attach (an expression, phrase, etc.) to another, as a prefix
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Noun
[edit]prepend (plural prepends)
- The act of prepending.
See also
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From pre- + Latin pendere (“weigh”).
Verb
[edit]prepend (third-person singular simple present prepends, present participle prepending, simple past and past participle prepended)
- (rare, transitive) To premeditate; to weigh up mentally.
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