Dictionary Definition
sum
Noun
1 a quantity of money; "he borrowed a large sum";
"the amount he had in cash was insufficient" [syn: sum of
money, amount,
amount of
money]
3 the final aggregate; "the sum of all our
troubles did not equal the misery they suffered" [syn: summation, sum
total]
4 the choicest or most essential or most vital
part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's
argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub
of the story" [syn: kernel, substance, core, center, essence, gist, heart, heart and
soul, inwardness,
marrow, meat, nub, pith, nitty-gritty]
6 the basic unit of money in Uzbekistan
7 a set containing all and only the members of
two or more given sets; "let C be the union of the sets A and B"
[syn: union, join]
Verb
1 be a summary of; "The abstract summarizes the
main ideas in the paper" [syn: summarize, summarise, sum up]
2 determine the sum of; "Add all the people in
this town to those of the neighboring town" [syn: total, tot, tot up, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add
together, tally,
add up]
[also: summing, summed]summed See sum
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Verb
summed- past of sum