Append vs Happen - What's the difference?
append | happen |
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.
To occur or take place.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= To occur unexpectedly, by chance or with a low probability.
To encounter by chance.
* 1860 , , The Marble Faun , ch. 30:
(obsolete or dialect) maybe, perhaps.
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As verbs the difference between append and happen
is that append is 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 while happen is to occur or take place.As a noun append
is an instance of writing more data to the end of an existing file.As an adverb happen is
obsolete or dialect maybe, perhaps.append
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(en verb)Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.}}
- Unexpectedly, in a nook close by the farmhouse, he happened upon a spot where the vintage had actually commenced.