sum
1. a quantity of money (Freq. 12)
- he borrowed a large sum
- the amount he had in cash was insufficient
• Syn:
sum of money, amount, amount of money
• Hypernyms:
assets
• Hyponyms:
gain, gross, revenue, receipts, cash surrender value,
contribution, deductible, defalcation, loss, red ink, red,
figure, coverage, insurance coverage, advance, cash advance, payroll,
paysheet, peanuts, purse
2. a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers (Freq. 4)
• Syn:
amount, total
• Derivationally related forms:
total (for: total), amount (for: amount), summate
• Hypernyms:
quantity
• Hyponyms:
grand total, subtotal
3. the final aggregate (Freq. 1)
- the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered
• Syn:
summation, sum total
• Derivationally related forms:
summational (for: summation), summate
• Hypernyms:
collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage
• Hyponyms:
aggregate, congeries, conglomeration
4. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience (Freq. 1)
- the gist of the prosecutor's argument
- the heart and soul of the Republican Party
- the nub of the story
• Syn:
kernel, substance, core, center, centre,
essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow,
meat, nub, pith, nitty-gritty
• Derivationally related forms:
summate, pithy (for: pith), meaty (for: meat), essential (for: essence), central (for: center)
• Hypernyms:
content, cognitive content, mental object
• Hyponyms:
bare bones, hypostasis, quiddity, haecceity, quintessence, stuff
5. the whole amount (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
total, totality, aggregate
• Derivationally related forms:
aggregate (for: aggregate), total (for: total), summate
• Hypernyms:
whole, unit
6. a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
- let C be the union of the sets A and B
• Syn:
union, join
• Hypernyms:
set
• Hyponyms:
direct sum
1. be a summary of
- The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper
• Syn:
summarize, summarise, sum up
• Derivationally related forms:
summation, summarisation (for: summarise), summarization (for: summarize)
• Hypernyms:
state, say, tell
• Verb Group:
sum up, summarize, summarise, resume
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
2. determine the sum of
- Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town
• Syn:
total, tot, tot up, sum up, summate,
tote up, add, add together, tally, add up
• Derivationally related forms:
tally (for: tally), addible (for: add), additive (for: add), addable (for: add), addition (for: add), adder (for: add), sum (for: summate), summation, total (for: total)
• Hypernyms:
count, number, enumerate, numerate
• Verb Group:
add, add together
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
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