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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | sum total, summation |
| Type of | aggregation, collection, assemblage, accumulation |
| Has types | conglomeration, aggregate, congeries |
| Derivation | summate |
the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered.
sum::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | join, union |
| Type of | set |
| Has types | direct sum |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | amount, amount of money, sum of money |
| Type of | assets |
| Has types | contribution, advance, cash advance, cash surrender value, coverage, deductible, defalcation, figure, gain, gross, insurance coverage, loss, payroll, paysheet, peanuts, purse, receipts, red, red ink, revenue |
he borrowed a large sum.
sum::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | amount, total |
| Type of | quantity |
| Has types | grand total, subtotal |
| Derivation | summate |
sum::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance |
| Type of | mental object, content, cognitive content |
| Has types | hypostasis, bare bones, quiddity, stuff, haecceity, quintessence |
| Derivation | summate |
Examples of sum
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The price tag is $2,700, which probably sounds like an enormous sum for a dress.
From the online.wsj.com
That may not seem like a crippling sum, but plenty of individuals owe much more.
From the businessweek.com
In sum, almost anything goes in the effort to keep them entertained and engaged.
From the newsweek.com
If the bank finds out, can it order me to pay the loan off in a single lump sum?
From the dailyherald.com
In sum, Jobs'Apple standards contrast most sharply with Page's Google standards.
From the forbes.com
A 65-year-old male would get $1,200 a month, or thereabouts, from this lump sum.
From the forbes.com
It combines a lump sum refundable tax credit with a Roth Health Savings Account.
From the forbes.com
The chicken was marinated in a honey-soy sauce, and the sum total was delicious.
From the omaha.com
Some companies pledge a set sum upfront to allow charity groups to budget ahead.
From the nzherald.co.nz
- A quantity of money; "he borrowed a large sum"; "the amount he had in cash was insufficient"
- Summarize: be a summary of; "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper"
- A quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
- Total: determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town"
- The final aggregate; "the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered"
- Kernel: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"
- Summation is the operation of combining a sequence of numbers using addition; the result is their sum or total. An interim or present total of a summation process is termed the running total. ...
- SUM: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, also simply called Sum , is a work of speculative fiction by the neuroscientist David Eagleman. It is in press in 21 languages . The Los Angeles Times described it as "teeming, writhing with imagination." (book review), Los Angeles Times, February 1, 2009. ...
- In category theory, the coproduct, or categorical sum, is the category-theoretic construction which subsumes the disjoint union of sets and of topological spaces, the free product of groups, and the direct sum of modules and vector spaces. ...
