total
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtəʊ.tl̩/
enpr: tōʹtl
ipa: /ˈtoʊ.tl̩/
ipa: [tʰoʊ̯ɾɫ]
ipa: [tʰɔɾɫ]
rhymes: -əʊtəl
Forms: form: totals
form: totaling
form: totalling
form: totaled
form: totaled
form: totalled
form: totalled
form: totall
Etymology: From Middle English total, from Old French total, from Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus (“all, whole, entire”) + -ālis, the former element of unknown origin. Perhaps related to Oscan 𐌕𐌏𐌖𐌕𐌏 (touto, “community, city-state”), Umbrian 𐌕𐌏𐌕𐌀𐌌 (totam, “tribe”, acc.), Old English þēod (“a nation, people, tribe”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂ (“people”). More at English Dutch, English thede.
Senses: examples: text: When we totalled the takings, we always got a different figure.
synonyms: sum
glosses: To add up; to calculate the sum of.
examples: text: That totals seven times so far.
synonyms: make
glosses: To equal a total of; to amount to.
examples: text: Honey, I’m OK, but I’ve totaled the car.
text: He acted real funny / He hocked up a rock and / It totaled my car!
ref: 1972, Frank Zappa, “Billy the Mountain”:
synonyms: demolish
trash
wreck
glosses: To demolish; to wreck completely. (from total loss)
examples: text: It totals nearly a pound.
glosses: To amount to; to add up to.
Derived terms: sense: from all parts of speech
word: grand total
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word: in total
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word: left total
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word: right total
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word: subtotal
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word: sum-total
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word: sum total
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word: total allergy syndrome
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word: total base number
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word: total bases
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word: total body day
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word: total clearance
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word: total conversion
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word: total conversion mod
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word: total depravity
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word: total digestible nutrients
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word: total eclipse
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word: total-etch
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word: total football
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word: total function
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word: total group
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word: total hardness
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word: total internal reflection
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word: total internal reflexion
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word: totalism
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word: totalitarian
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word: totality
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word: totally
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word: total object
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word: total order
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word: total ordering relation
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word: total package
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word: total quality management
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word: total recall
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word: total return swap
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word: total revenue
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word: total ring of fractions
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word: total running time
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word: total station
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word: total story time
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word: total synthesis
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word: total up
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word: total war