adds

1. 1
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of add.

   The accountant adds the totals at the end of each month.

   Her latest album adds a richer sound to the band's catalog.

   Note

   The form a singular subject takes: he adds, the album adds, it adds up. Most uses want an object (she adds the totals, he adds a postscript), but the "intensify" use can stand without one, usually with to: the delay adds to the strain. When it introduces further speech, it works as a reporting verb after a quotation: "And bring a coat," she adds.

2. 2
   noun

   Plural of add.

   The producer reviewed the last-minute adds before the broadcast.

   Two of the proposed adds were cut to save space on the page.

   Note

   A plural that belongs to the countable uses of the noun: a station's new playlist adds, or the adds that join a fight after the main target. The initialisms ADD, for attention deficit disorder or for the analog-recorded, digitally mastered disc, are written in capitals and are a separate matter. The same spelling is also the verb's present form, so context decides: the station adds a song; the station's adds this week.

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