prepend

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

prepend
 /pree`pend'/, vt.

   [by analogy with `append'] To prefix. As with `append' (but not
   `prefix' or `suffix' as a verb), the direct object is always the thing
   being added and not the original word (or character string, or
   whatever). "If you prepend a semicolon to the line, the translation
   routine will pass it through unaltered."

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

prepend

   <jargon> /pree'pend'/ (by analogy with "append") To prefix or
   add to the beginning.

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   (1998-04-23)