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."

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