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sum (sum; for n. 6 so̵̅o̅m)

noun

  1. an amount of money a sum paid in reparation
  2. the whole amount; totality; aggregate the sum of our experience
  3. the gist or a summary of something said, done, etc.: usually in sum and substance
    1. the result obtained by adding numbers or quantities; total
    2. Old-fashioned a series of numbers to be added together, or any problem in arithmetic
    3. the limit of the sum of the first n terms of an infinite series as n grows indefinitely
    4. the set containing every element belonging to one or both of two original sets and no other elements
    5. in Boolean algebra, disjunction (sense )
  5. Archaic the highest degree; height; summit
  6. pl. sum

    Etymology: Uzbek sŭm

    the basic monetary unit of Uzbekistan

Etymology: ME somme < MFr < L summa, fem. of summus, highest, superl. < base of super: see super-

transitive verb summed, sum′·ming

  1. to determine the sum of by adding
  2. to summarize or review briefly; sum up

intransitive verb

to get, or come to, a total

sum Idioms

in sum

to put it briefly; in short

sum up

  1. to add up or collect into a whole or total
  2. to review briefly; summarize
sum Synonyms

sum

n.

amount, total, quantity, sum total, aggregate, gross, tally, whole, entirety; see also whole.

sum refers to the number or amount obtained by adding individual units the sum of 3 and 5 is 8; amount applies to the result obtained by combining all the sums, quantities, measures, etc. that are involved we paid the full amount of the damages; aggregate refers to the whole group or mass of individual items gathered together the aggregate of our experiences; total stresses the wholeness or inclusiveness of a sum or amount the collection reached a total of $200

sum Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • ensure: Contents temporarily removed 15 % of the sum insured.
  • invest: For many years schools in the northern hemisphere have invested large sums in ICT suites.
  • assure: The sum assured under each policy should be the amount required to meet the value of the life assured's share on death.
  • pay: Jeremy Paxman is paid huge sums to keep his mouth shut.
  • donate: Some of our members have already donated large sums of money to get the drawing fund started.
  • borrow: Some doctors have borrowed large sums to train in the UK.

Adjective modifier

  • undisclosed: Top of page Jordan acquires Wisdom Wisdom Toothbrushes has been acquired by Jordan AS, for an undisclosed sum.
  • tax-free: From A day, the maximum tax-free lump sum will be 25 % of the value of the fund.
  • princely: For this I receive the princely sum of £ 20.
  • substantial: The re-organisation of local government will cost substantial sums.
  • vast: Today's courts award a fraction of those vast sums.
  • nominal: These two micas can be readily obtained for a nominal sum from geology suppliers.

Modifies a noun

  • insured: Also if the property is made uninhabitable, alternative accommodation up to a maximum of 30 % of the sum insured can be claimed.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • up: Let's now sum up what we have found.

Preposition: of

  • money: Paying players large sums of money at club level is not the way to go forward.
  • shilling: It is reputed that the sum of ten shillings per night was paid for this privilege.
  • pound: I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of ten pounds.

Noun used with modifier

  • lump: The simplest is a lump sum payment of the value of the policy.
  • cash: Use a low interest credit card to finance small cash sums.
  • five-figure: Officers also recovered a five-figure sum of money as well as approximately half a kilogram of cocaine following house searches.
sum Quotes

I see you belong to the category, old friend, which will havethingsintheround, whichdoesloveanend, causes, the balance sheet drawn and equalled.But, mydear Gid, the world is not like thatöit is untidy, there are no reasons, the final sum never balances.

—Mo,Timothy

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

—Parkinson, C(yril) Northcote

To make a start, out of particulars and make them general, rolling up the sum, by defective meansö Sniffing the trees, just another dog among a lot of dogs.What else is there? And to do?

—Williams,William Carlos

  The production of surplus-value, or the extraction of surplus labour, is the specific end and aim, the sum and 558 substance, of capitalist production.

—Marx, Karl Heinrich

   Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?

—Didion,Joan

The community is a fictitious body, composed of the individual personswhoare considered asconstituting as it were its members.The interest of the community then, Bentley is what? The sum of the interests of the several members who compose it.

—Bentham,Jeremy

Nec species sua cuique manet, rerumque novatrix ex aliis alias reddit natura figuras. nec perit in toto quidquam, mihi credite, mundo, sed variat faciemque novat, nascique vocatur incipere esse aliud, quam quod fuit ante, morique, desinere illud idem. cum sint huc forsitan illa, haec translata illuc, summa tamen omnia constant. No species remains constant: that great renovator of matter Nature, endlessly fashions new forms from old: there's nothing in the whole universe that perishes, believe me; rather it renews and varies its substance. What we describe as birth isno morethan incipient change froma prior state, while dying is merely to quit it. Though the parts may be transported hither and thither, the sum of all matter is constant.

—Ovid full name Publius OvidiusNaso   4317

   There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys; they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked out the sum for themselves.

—Kierkegaard, So«  ren Aabye