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(ăd)v. add·ed, add·ing, adds
v.tr.
1. To join or combine (numbers) through addition: If you add 5 and 10 and 17, the result is 32. If you add 6 to 8, you get 14.
2. To join or unite so as to increase in size, quantity, quality, or scope: added 12 inches to the deck; flowers that added beauty to the dinner table.
3. To say or write further.
v.intr.
Phrasal Verb: 1. To find a sum in arithmetic.
2.
a. To constitute an addition: an exploit that will add to her reputation.
b. To create or make an addition: gradually added to my meager savings.
add up
Idiom: 1. To be reasonable, plausible, or consistent; make sense: The witness's testimony simply did not add up.
2. To amount to an expected total: a bill that didn't add up.
3. To formulate an opinion of: added up the other competitors in one glance.
add up to
To constitute; amount to: The revisions added up to a lot of work.
[Middle English adden, from Latin addere : ad-, ad- + dare, to give; see dō- in Indo-European roots.]
add′a·ble, add′i·ble adj.
ADD
abbr.
attention deficit disorder
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add up
vb (adverb)
1. (Mathematics) to find the sum (of)
2. (intr) to result in a correct total
3. (intr) informal to make sense
4. (foll by: to) to amount to
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| Verb | 1. | add up - develop into; "This idea will never amount to anything"; "nothing came of his grandiose plans" become, turn - undergo a change or development; "The water turned into ice"; "Her former friend became her worst enemy"; "He turned traitor" aggregate - amount in the aggregate to |
| 2. |  add up - determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town"add together, add - make an addition by combining numbers; "Add 27 and 49, please!" | |
| 3. |  add up - add up in number or quantity; "The bills amounted to $2,000"; "The bill came to $2,000"work out - be calculated; "The fees work out to less than $1,000" be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" outnumber - be larger in number average, average out - amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain; "The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40" make - add up to; "four and four make eight" | |
| 4. |  add up - be reasonable or logical or comprehensiblebe - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
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Translations
sečíst
lægge sammen
laskea yhteen
zbrojiti
･･･を合計する
합계하다
summera
คิดผลรวม
tính tổng
w>add up
vt sep → zusammenzählen or -rechnen
vi
(figures etc) → stimmen; (fig: = make sense) → sich reimen; it’s beginning to add up → jetzt wird so manches klar; it all adds up (lit) → es summiert sich; (fig) → es passt alles zusammen
to add up to (figures) → ergeben; (expenses also) → sich belaufen auf (+acc); that all adds up to a rather unusual state of affairs → alles in allem ergibt das eine recht ungewöhnliche Situation; it doesn’t add up to much (fig) → das ist nicht berühmt (inf)
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
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→ يُجْمَعُ sečíst lægge sammen addieren αθροίζω sumar laskea yhteen additionner zbrojiti sommare ･･･を合計する 합계하다 optellen summere dodać somar складывать summera คิดผลรวม toplamak tính tổng 增添Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009