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{
"term": "addition",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a thing that is added to something else",
"sensetop": "addition to something",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "All of these technologies are fairly recent additions."
},
{
"text": "the latest addition to our range of cars",
"contextForm": "addition to something"
},
{
"text": "This is a **welcome addition** to the literature of western art history."
},
{
"text": "an addition to the family (= another child)"
},
{
"text": "last minute additions to the government’s package of proposals"
},
{
"text": "We have made several additions to the collection recently."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["useful", "valuable", "welcome"],
"verb + addition": ["make"],
"preposition": ["in addition", "addition to"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "the act of adding something to something else",
"sensetop": "addition of something",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Add salt, tasting with every addition."
},
{
"text": "Pasta's basic ingredients are flour and water, sometimes **with the addition of** eggs or oil.",
"contextForm": "addition of something"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["useful", "valuable", "welcome"],
"verb + addition": ["make"],
"preposition": ["in addition", "addition to"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a new part that is added to a building",
"sensetop": "addition (to something)",
"labels": "(North American English)British English",
"examples": [
{
"text": "architects who specialize in home additions"
},
{
"text": "The addition should match the architecture of the house."
},
{
"text": "a 22 000-square-foot addition designed by a Japanese architect"
},
{
"text": "a family-room addition to his home"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["building", "room", "two-story"],
"verb + addition": ["build", "design"],
"preposition": ["addition to"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "the process of adding two or more numbers together to find their total",
"cefr": "b1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "children learning addition and subtraction"
},
{
"text": "He worked it out through simple addition."
},
{
"text": "She can do addition, but she hasn't learned subtraction yet."
}
],
"topics": ["Maths and measurement"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["simple"],
"verb + addition": ["do"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used when you want to mention another person or thing after something else",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "In addition to these arrangements, extra ambulances will be on duty until midnight."
},
{
"text": "There is, in addition, one further point to make."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈdɪʃn/",
"audio": "ad/addition/addition__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈdɪʃn/",
"audio": "ad/addition/addition__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Latin additio(n-), from the verb addere, from ad- ‘to’ + the base of dare ‘put’."
}