Prepend vs Amend - What's the difference?
prepend | amend |
(computing, linguistics, transitive) To attach (an expression, phrase, etc.) to another, as a prefix.
To make better.
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* Shakespeare
* Sir Walter Scott
To become better.
(obsolete) To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.x:
*, II.2.6.ii:
To make a formal alteration in legislation by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.
As verbs the difference between prepend and amend
is that prepend is (computing|linguistics|transitive) to attach (an expression, phrase, etc) to another, as a prefix or prepend can be (rare|transitive) to premeditate; to weigh up mentally while amend is to make better.prepend
English
Etymology 1
From pre-'' + ''(ap)pend , by analogy with append .Verb
(en verb)Etymology 2
From pre-'' + Latin ''pendere ‘weigh’.See also
* append * prefixAnagrams
*amend
English
Verb
(en verb)- Mar not the thing that cannot be amended .
- We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman.
- But Paridell complaynd, that his late fight / With Britomart, so sore did him offend, / That ryde he could not, till his hurts he did amend .
- he gave her a vomit, and conveyed a serpent, such as she conceived, into the basin; upon the sight of it she was amended .