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sum

(sŭm)

1. Mathematics

a. An amount obtained as a result of adding numbers.

b. An arithmetic problem: a child good at sums.

2. The whole amount, quantity, or number; an aggregate: the sum of the team's combined experience.

3. An amount of money: paid an enormous sum.

4. A summary: my view of the world, in sum.

5. The central idea or point; the gist.

tr.v. summed, sum·ming, sums

1. Mathematics To add.

2. To give a summary of; summarize.

Phrasal Verb:

sum up

1. To present the substance of (material) in a condensed form; summarize: sum up the day's news; concluded the lecture by summing up.

2. To describe or assess concisely: an epithet that sums up my feelings.

[Middle English summe, from Old French, from Latin summa, from feminine of summus, highest; see uper in Indo-European roots.]

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sum up

vb (adverb)

1. to summarize (feelings, the main points of an argument, etc): the judge began to sum up.

2. (tr) to form a quick opinion of: I summed him up in five minutes.

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Verb	1.	sum up - give a summary (of); "he summed up his results"; "I will now summarize" summarize, summarise, resume ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell - to say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her request" abstract - give an abstract (of) precis - make a summary (of) docket - make a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe it in a list recap, recapitulate - summarize briefly; "Let's recapitulate the main ideas" sum, summarise, summarize, sum up - be a summary of; "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper"
	2.	sum up - be a summary of; "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper" sum, summarise, summarize sum up, summarize, summarise, resume - give a summary (of); "he summed up his results"; "I will now summarize" say, state, tell - express in words; "He said that he wanted to marry her"; "tell me what is bothering you"; "state your opinion"; "state your name"
	3.	sum up - determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town" add together, summate, tot, tot up, tote up, total, add up, sum, tally, add add together, add - make an addition by combining numbers; "Add 27 and 49, please!" count, numerate, enumerate, number - determine the number or amount of; "Can you count the books on your shelf?"; "Count your change"

sum

noun

1. A number or quantity obtained as a result of addition:

aggregate, amount, summation, sum total, total, totality.

Archaic: tale.

2. An amount or quantity from which nothing is left out or held back:

aggregate, all, entirety, everything, gross, total, totality, whole.

Informal: work (used in plural).

Idioms: everything but the kitchen sink, lock, stock, and barrel, the whole ball of wax.

3. An organized array of individual elements and parts forming and working as a unit:

entity, integral, system, totality, whole.

4. A condensation of the essential or main points of something:

recapitulation, rundown, run-through, summary, summation, summing-up, wrap-up.

Informal: recap.

verb

To combine (figures) to form a sum.Also used with up:

add (up), cast, foot (up), tot (up), total, totalize.

phrasal verb
sum up

To give a recapitulation of the salient facts of:

abstract, epitomize, go over, recapitulate, review, run down, run through, summarize, synopsize, wrap up.

Informal: recap.

Translations

يُلَخِّصيُلَخِّصُ

shrnout

opsummere

resümieren summieren zusammenfassen zusammenzählen

ανακεφαλαιώνω

recapitular

esittää yhteenveto

résumer

rezimirati

taka saman

addizionare riassumere

要約する

요약하다

räkna ihop

สรุปสาระ

özetlemek

tóm tắt

总结

w>sum up

vt sep

(= review, summarize) → zusammenfassen

(= evaluate rapidly) → ab- or einschätzen, taxieren; she summed me up at a glance → sie taxierte mich mit einem Blick

vi (also Jur) → zusammenfassen, resümieren; to sum up, we can say that … → zusammenfassend or als Resümee können wir feststellen, dass …; the judge hasn’t summed up yet → der Richter hat sein Resümee noch nicht gegeben

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sum

(sam) noun

1. the amount or total made by two or more things or numbers added together. The sum of 12, 24, 7 and 11 is 54.

2. a quantity of money. It will cost an enormous sum to repair the swimming pool.

3. a problem in arithmetic. My children are better at sums than I am.

sum total

the complete or final total. The sum total of the damage cannot be calculated.

sum up – past tense, past participle summed – verb

to give the main or important points of. He summed up the various proposals.

sum up

→ يُلَخِّصُ shrnout opsummere zusammenfassen ανακεφαλαιώνω recapitular esittää yhteenveto résumer rezimirati riassumere 要約する 요약하다 opsommen summere zsumować resumir подводить итог räkna ihop สรุปสาระ özetlemek tóm tắt 总结

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