ADD ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does add on mean? 

• ADD ON (verb)
  The verb ADD ON has 2 senses:

1. make an addition

2. add to the very end

  Familiarity information: ADD ON used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADD ON (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make an addition

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

Let's add on to this

Hypernyms (to "add on" is one way to...):

add (make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

add-on (a component that is added to something to improve it)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Add to the very end

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

add on; affix; append; supplement

Context example:

He appended a glossary to his novel where he used an invented language

Hypernyms (to "add on" is one way to...):

attach (cause to be attached)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "add on"):

annex (attach to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Derivation:

add-on (a supplementary component that improves capability)