different between prepend vs prebend

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???p?nd/

  Rhymes: -?nd

Etymology 1

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

Verb

prepend (third-person singular simple present prepends, present participle prepending, simple past and past participle prepended)

1. (computing, linguistics, transitive) To attach (an expression, phrase, etc.) to another, as a prefix.

Translations

Noun

prepend (plural prepends)

1. The act of prepending.

See also

• append
• postpend
• prefix
• postfix

Etymology 2

From pre- +? Latin pendere (“weigh”).

Verb

prepend (third-person singular simple present prepends, present participle prepending, simple past and past participle prepended)

1. (rare, transitive) To premeditate; to weigh up mentally.

Anagrams

• perpend

English

Etymology 1

From Middle French prebende, from Medieval Latin prebenda, from Late Latin praebenda, from Latin praebendus, verbal adjective of praebere. Doublet of provender.

Noun

prebend (plural prebends)

1. (obsolete) A stipend paid to a canon of a cathedral.
2. (obsolete) The property or other source of this endowment.
   • 1885, William Hunt, Aldred (d.1069), article in Leslie Stephen (editor) Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 1,

     He is said to have added prebends to Southwell; it is more probable that he gave estates to the church which were afterwards made into separate prebends.

3. Political patronage employment.
4. (obsolete) A prebendary.
   • c. 1593, Francis Bacon, letter to Sir Thomas Coneysby

     a lease of the prebend of Withington

Derived terms

• prebendal

Related terms

• prebendalism
• prebendary

Translations

Etymology 2

pre- +? bend

Verb

prebend (third-person singular simple present prebends, present participle prebending, simple past and past participle prebent)

1. (transitive) To bend in advance.
   • 2006, Michael Wagner, Robert Frigg, AO Manual of Fracture Management: Internal Fixators (page 14)

     For large and/or dense bones compression plate fixation achieves absolute stability but the fragments have to be in contact remote to the plate by prebending the plate.

Anagrams

• perbend