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to prepend

to prepend

1 8.3
To put something at the beginning of another thing
  • verb
  • /prɪˈpɛnd/
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  • You should prepend your name to the top of the document before submitting it.

And I think almost about it as a, you know, text prepended to GPT.

Examples

  • It turns out, even though the attacker doesn't know the value of the prepended secret, he can still generate a valid hash for secret data attackercontrolleddata!

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  • A week later, I got another e-mail with the same subject (prepended this time with Re:)... and from the same sender.

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  • And then at the end, we would get the same number as before, except that we're going to prepend a negative sign.

  • The addition of prepending "ClientDataclientname" to the path as it's being copied will sometimes make the final path name too long.

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  • The server will prepend the signature, hash it, and come up with the exact same hash we did (victory!).

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  • She has, in effect, disclosed that she works for them by appearing in their commercials, but she does not prepend every statement about them on her show with "I work for them and they pay me to talk about them."

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  • So in these cases, institution-specific proxy URLs are prepended to the institution-neutral URLs on-the-fly in the user interfaces.

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  • The link text for IP-restricted (prepended proxy) and open access resources (no prepended proxy) is adjusted appropriately when records are rendered for patron use, as shown in figures 4 and 5.

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  • The link text for IP-restricted (prepended proxy) and open access resources (no prepended proxy) is adjusted appropriately when records are rendered for patron use, as shown in figures 4 and 5.

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  • An application is susceptible to a hash length extension attack if it prepends a secret value to a string, hashes it with a vulnerable algorithm, and entrusts the attacker with both the string and the hash, but not the secret.

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Synonyms

to prefix
vsto prepend
1 3.7

To put letters at the start of a word or put something at the start of something else

is used more generally to place something at the beginning, not only words
to prepose
vsto prepend
9.5

To put something before something else in order, position, or time

is about adding an item at the start rather than changing sequence order

Antonyms

7 4.6

To add something to the end of a document or list

How Early

to prepend
1 8.3
to insert
208 3.5
to append
7 4.6

Surface Forms

prepend infinitive
prepended past
prepended past participle
prepending present participle
prepends third person singular

Morphology

prepend = pend (semi-transparent) = pre + pend

The prefix 'pre-' indicates 'before', but the root 'pend' is not commonly recognized in modern English, making the overall meaning less transparent.

Etymology

The word prepend comes from putting pre- 'before' in front of append, which means 'to add'. So, to prepend something is to add it at the start rather than at the end.