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adding

verbnouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈæ.dɪŋ//

An act of addition.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of addpresent participle and gerund of add

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:adding.

noun

  1. 1

    An act of addition.

    […] she is confronted with the menacing reality of her incompetence. Which is not to say she can't do the addings and subtractings.

Forms

plural
addings
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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).