ADD UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does add up mean? 

• ADD UP (verb)
  The verb ADD UP has 4 senses:

1. develop into

2. determine the sum of

3. add up in number or quantity

4. be reasonable or logical or comprehensible

  Familiarity information: ADD UP used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADD UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Develop into

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

add up; amount; come

Context example:

nothing came of his grandiose plans

Hypernyms (to "add up" is one way to...):

become; turn (undergo a change or development)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "add up"):

aggregate (amount in the aggregate to)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Determine the sum of

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

add; add together; add up; sum; sum up; summate; tally; tot; tot up; total; tote up

Context example:

Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town

Hypernyms (to "add up" is one way to...):

count; enumerate; number; numerate (determine the number or amount of)

Verb group:

add; add together (make an addition by combining numbers)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Add up in number or quantity

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

add up; amount; come; number; total

Context example:

The bill came to $2,000

Hypernyms (to "add up" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "add up"):

work out (be calculated)

outnumber (be larger in number)

average; average out (amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain)

make (add up to)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Be reasonable or logical or comprehensible

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

add up; make sense

Hypernyms (to "add up" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
It ----s that CLAUSE

 Context examples 

Over time, extra calories add up, and that extra weight can lead to serious health conditions.

(Heavily processed foods cause overeating and weight gain, National Institutes of Health)

They wouldn't add up, she said.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There is much work to be done in preventing heart disease, but we also know that better dietary habits can improve our health quickly, and we can act on that knowledge by making and building on small changes that add up over time.

(How dietary factors influence disease risk, NIH)

If there's anything to add up, besides, I don't know when I shall make it out; and my bad boy will look so miserable all the time.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But the figures had the old obstinate propensity—they WOULD NOT add up.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)