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Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. computing, linguistics, transitive To attach (an expression, phrase, etc.) to another, as a prefix.
- v. rare (transitive) To premeditate; to weigh up mentally.
Etymologies
- From pre- + Latin pendere ‘weigh’. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Notice in the above that I'm switching the default case for each; the assumption will be that labels prepend content, and input appends. render (), the element will iterate through the various attached decorators, calling render () on each.”
“In this chunck of code, the jQuery "prepend" content manipulation is used to inject the tooltip immediately after the opening body tag.”
“Also, maybe it's just that I'm a fast typer but typing "facebook" and hitting CTRL-ENTER (to prepend "www." and append ". com") seems faster to me than relying on typing a few letters and then selecting from the autofill.”
Force Firefox Autofill To Behave By Removing “WWW” URLs | Lifehacker Australia
“And we could prepend to the sign, “Welcome to California, Home of Loyal Americans.””
“Saying "pleased to meet you" is just something you prepend to a conversation, but the sort of spin added by politicians is woven through it.”
“Also, maybe it's just that I'm a fast typer but typing "facebook" and hitting CTRL-ENTER to prepend "www." and append ".com" seems faster to me than relying on typing a few letters and then selecting from the autofill.”
Force Firefox Autofill To Behave By Removing “WWW” URLs | Lifehacker Australia
“If you're going to call me an economist, however, you should probably prepend "amateur" to that title ;~”
The Confirmatory Bias Diet, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“I then drag in any relevant files and other emails, set the deadline of the task to the delivery date, and prepend the number of pages to the task title.”
I don’t need no stinkin’ job tracking system… « Musings from an overworked translator
“I do believe it is important that teachers are treated with respect and my students do prepend my name with "Mrs.”
“But it infuriates me to be forced to prepend or append some numbers to my preferred handle just to get some online social system to accept it.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘prepend’.
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webdev
random webdev lingo used primarily in computer programming.
( open list, randomness, technical jargon, geek speak )
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ajax, user, admin, frontend, backend, database, sql, protocol, call, dom, layout, ui and 440 more... -
Not quite love
prolix, pleonastic, senescence, autochthonous, loup, pronk, onomatopoeia, magisterial, rixatrix, esurient, blowsabella, crapulence and 69 more...
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Quenelles of Random Palavery
More randomly-garnered terms from the world of words that don't quite yet fit into my other lists.
Goddidit, barcelona, filigrain, good-natured, ill-natured, half-bit, endosome, underplaying, parotid, denormalization, sleightgeist, wheezing and 2334 more...
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pearlescent, perfidy, periphrasis, peristalsis, peristyle, phonestheme, phosphene, pleonasm, plump for, portmanteau, prelapsarian, prolix and 52 more...
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VanishedOne's Words
facipulator, fetiphobia, gules, boustrophedon, reverse boustroph..., unreal, ensiform, xiphoid, romhack, heritage, floccinaucinihili..., johnian and 1004 more...
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etymology
preferential, hind, kindling, nonsignificant, intervening, mistakenly, syntactic, streamlined, impassion, impure, involuntary, plaint and 57 more...
Tweets
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jonwhite To form the full URL, prepend "http://" to "www.wordnik.com". Jul 14, 2009