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lisätä — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • add verb To combine numbers or amounts to get a total.
  • augment verb To make something larger or stronger by adding to it.
  • eke noun An addition.
  • increase verb To become larger in amount, number, or degree.
  • inoculate verb To introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into something (e.g. the body) or someone, such as to produce immunity to a specific disease.
  • introduce verb To make people known to each other for the first time.
  • load verb To put a quantity of goods, cargo, or material onto or into something for transport or storage.
  • propagate verb To spread or pass something on, such as information, a belief, or a disease.
  • push verb To apply force to something so it moves away from you.
  • spawn verb Of fish, frogs, or other aquatic creatures, to lay eggs in water.
  • stretch verb To pull or extend something so it becomes longer or tighter.
  • supplement noun Something added to make up for what's missing.

Senses

lisätä is used for these senses in English:

  • crank up (idiomatic) To increase, as the volume, power or energy of something.
  • eke (transitive) Chiefly in the form eke out: to add to, to augment; to increase; to lengthen.
  • increase (transitive) To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.
  • inoculate (transitive) To add one substance to another.
  • introduce (transitive) To add (something) to a system, a mixture, or a container.
  • load (transitive) To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.
  • propagate (transitive) To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to disseminate.
  • push (computing) To add (a data item) to the top of a stack.

add — full definition

  1. verb To combine numbers or amounts to get a total.
  2. verb To put something extra in or with something else.
  3. verb To say something further, often as a clarification.

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