different between prepend vs propend

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

From Latin pr?pend?re.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??(?)?p?nd/

Verb

propend (third-person singular simple present propends, present participle propending, simple past and past participle propended)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To incline or lean.
2. To be inclined; to have a propensity to.
   • 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:

     Yet that which is above all this, the favour and the love of heav'n we have great argument to think in a peculiar manner propitious and propending towards us.

Related terms

• propensity