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How to pronounce total in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms add, add together, add up, sum, sum up, summate, tally, tot, tot up, tote up
Type of enumerate, count, number, numerate
Verb group add together, add
Type Words
Synonyms aggregate, sum, totality
Type of whole, unit
Type Words
Synonyms add up, amount, come, number
Type of be
Has types work out, make, outnumber, average, average out
Type Words
Synonyms entire, full
Derivation totality


a total failure.
Type Words
Synonyms amount, sum
Type of quantity
Has types subtotal, grand total
Type Words
Synonyms full


a total eclipse.
a total disaster.
Type Words
Type of damage


My son totaled our new car.
the rock star totals his guitar at every concert.

Examples of total

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Monsanto paid its chief executive, Hugh Grant, a total of $13 million last year.
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He also scored five touchdowns on returns and accounted for 31 total touchdowns.
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Callahan said the estimates of total loss are from $450 million to $600 million.
From the stltoday.com
Strictly speaking, they examined a grand total of nine countries, most European.
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Slover is the only player at par or better with a 54-hole total of even-par 216.
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A total of 162 officers died in the line of duty last year, up from 117 in 2009.
From the thenewstribune.com
In total, the district spent $225,088 for those new HVAC units at Bellevue West.
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Gazelle said it expects to pay out more than $2 million to iPad owners in total.
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The total number of cancellations for this week is 12,630, FlightAware reported.
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More examples
  • Add up in number or quantity; "The bills amounted to $2,000"; "The bill came to $2,000"
  • Entire: constituting the full quantity or extent; complete; "an entire town devastated by an earthquake"; "gave full attention"; "a total failure"
  • Sum: the whole amount
  • Determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town"
  • Full: complete in extent or degree and in every particular; "a full game"; "a total eclipse"; "a total disaster"
  • Sum: a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
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