In two films about the Titanic, Murdoch was portrayed shooting passengers and himself during the sinking; this was based on a number of eyewitness testimonies of a shooting/suicide by an officer during the launching of the last lifeboat. It is possible that Murdoch was the officer.
In general, to append is to join or add on to the end of something. For example, an appendix is a section appended (added to the end) of a document. In computer programming, append is the name of a procedure for concatenating (linked) lists or arrays in some high-level programming languages.
apposition. n. 1. a putting into juxtaposition. 2. (Grammar) a grammatical construction in which a word, esp a noun phrase, is placed after another to modify its meaning. 3. (Biology) biology growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposition of successive layers of material.oun. 1. apposition-a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows; `Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition. limiting, qualifying, modification-the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase.