On 1999-10-25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <Sam Heywood> said:
>Do any of you guys know of an English word meaning the opposite of
>"append"? When we add some additional text to the end of a document
>we are "appending" something to the document. Is there a word to
>describe the action of adding some text to the top of a document?
>There ought to be a word to describe this particular type of copy
>and paste operation. I think "suprappend" would be a good word for
>it, but it isn't in my dictionary.
After searching through several dictionaries and Roget's Thesaurus, I
believe your safest "opposite" of append would be "prefix" (used as a verb
with the accent on the second syllable). The words suggested here by other
listers don't appear in my references. Although the use of affix and prefix
as verbs is not that common outside of grammatical inflection, I see no
other similar word contrasts in English; there just doesn't seem to be an
ordinary opposite of "append" in regular usage.
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