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TOTAL (totalled, totalling)
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, totalling Dictionary entry overview: What does total mean?
• TOTAL (noun)
The noun TOTAL has 2 senses:
1. the whole amount
2. a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
Familiarity information: TOTAL used as a noun is rare.
• TOTAL (adjective)
The adjective TOTAL has 2 senses:
1. constituting the full quantity or extent; complete
2. complete in extent or degree and in every particular
Familiarity information: TOTAL used as an adjective is rare.
• TOTAL (verb)
The verb TOTAL has 3 senses:
1. add up in number or quantity
2. determine the sum of
3. damage beyond the point of repair
Familiarity information: TOTAL used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The whole amount
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
aggregate; sum; total; totality
Hypernyms ("total" is a kind of...):
unit; whole (an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity)
Derivation:
total (determine the sum of)
total (add up in number or quantity)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("total" is a kind of...):
quantity (the concept that something has a magnitude and can be represented in mathematical expressions by a constant or a variable)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "total"):
grand total (the sum of the sums of several groups of numbers)
subtotal (the sum of part of a group of numbers)
Derivation:
total (determine the sum of)
total (add up in number or quantity)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Constituting the full quantity or extent; complete
Synonyms:
Context example:
a total failure
Similar:
whole (including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete)
Derivation:
totality (the quality of being complete and indiscriminate)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Complete in extent or degree and in every particular
Synonyms:
full; total
Context example:
a total disaster
Similar:
complete (having every necessary or normal part or component or step)
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it totals Past simple: totaled
/ totalled Past participle: totaled
/ totalled -ing form: totaling
/ totalling Sense 1
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 "total" 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 "total"):
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
Derivation:
total (the whole amount)
total (a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers)
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 "total" 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
Derivation:
total (the whole amount)
total (a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Damage beyond the point of repair
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
the rock star totals his guitar at every concert
Hypernyms (to "total" is one way to...):
damage (inflict damage upon)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples
We made a march that day which totaled some two-and-twenty miles, without any change in our prospects.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Well, dear, what is the 'dem'd total', as Mr. Mantalini says?
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
These two processes together only produced a quarter of an inch (7 millimeters) of growth — less than a third of the total.
(Sierras Lost Water Weight, Grew Taller During Drought, NASA)
I was left in total darkness.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The determination of the ratio of monocytes compared to total cells present in a sample.
(Monocytes to Total Cell Ratio Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)
Michigan Neuropathy Screening Instrument (MNSI) Physical assessment; total score.
(MNSI - Physical Assessment Total Score, NCI Thesaurus)
In the ebb of their fortunes, this sum was their total capital; yet they laid it unhesitatingly against Matthewson’s six hundred.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Though in total darkness, I followed his progress by its sound.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The first group, 73% of the total, had the lowest increase, from an average of nearly 51 minutes a day to nearly an hour and 47 minutes a day.
(High amounts of screen time begin as early as infancy, National Institutes of Health)
My total ignorance of the connection must plead my apology.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
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