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Appended vs Prepended - What's the difference?

appended | prepended |

As verbs the difference between appended and prepended

is that appended is past tense of append while prepended is past tense of prepend.

appended

English

Verb

(head)
  • (append)

  • append

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was appended to the column.
  • To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex; as, notes appended to this chapter.
  • (computing) To write more data to the end of a pre-existing file.
  • Derived terms

    * prepend

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) An instance of writing more data to the end of an existing file.
  • Anagrams

    *

    References

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    prepended

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (prepend)
  • Anagrams

    *

    prepend

    English

    Etymology 1

    From pre-'' + ''(ap)pend , by analogy with append .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (computing, linguistics, transitive) To attach (an expression, phrase, etc.) to another, as a prefix.
  • Etymology 2

    From pre-'' + Latin ''pendere ‘weigh’.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (rare) To premeditate; to weigh up mentally.
  • See also

    * append * prefix

    Anagrams

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