sum
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English summe, from Old French summe, from Latin summa (“highest point; sum”), from summus (“highest”).
Inflected forms:
form: sums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sums
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: summing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: summed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: summed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.
pos: noun
examples: The sum of 3 and 4 is 7.
Take yee the ſumme of all the Congregation of the children of Iſrael,[…]
"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."
gloss: An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily limited to addition).
pos: noun
tags: often
plural
examples: We're learning about division, and the sums are tricky.
[…] a large sheet of paper […] covered with long sums […]
"I think it was a disgraceful performance from a captain that got his sums wrong today, and I think it should never be permitted to happen again."
gloss: A quantity of money.
pos: noun
examples: a tidy sum
the sum of forty pounds
[…]With a great ſumme obteined I this freedome.
Merchant Opold: This one promised compensation for services rendered. It humbly suggests that a sum of 250 credits would be most appropriate.
Shepard: Would you have had any chance of getting this past customs without me? You can be a bit more generous.
Merchant Opold: The other's words possess the discomforting ring of truth.
Merchant Opold: This one could raise the sum to 500 credits. That is half this one's profit taken by the other. It can offer no more.
gloss: A summary; the principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the substance.
pos: noun
examples: This is the sum of all the evidence in the case.
This is the sum and substance of his objections.
gloss: A central idea or point; gist.
pos: noun
gloss: The utmost degree; the greatest or most perfect realization (of some concept).
pos: noun
tags: literary
rare
examples: Thus I have told thee all my State, and brought / My Storie to the ſum of earthly bliſs[…]
Our wisdom and skill cannot save us from accidents, pains, and from that sum of all fears and distresses—death.
gloss: An old English measure of corn equal to the quarter.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: The sum is also used for the quarter, and the strike for the bushel.
gloss: To add together.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: when you say that stability and change are, it's because you're summing them up together as embraced by it, and taking note of the communion each of them has with being.
gloss: To give a summary of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: summand
summary
summation
summative
successor
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Derived words: Abel sum
Appell-Lerch sum
checksum
digit sum
direct sum
formal sum
in sum
linear sum
lump sum
Murasugi sum
negative-sum
partial sum
positive-sum
princely sum
Ramanujan's sum
rank sum
residual sum of squares
Riemann sum
ring sum normal form
semisum
sum and substance
sum assured
sumless
summist
sum of best
sum of its parts
sum of parts
sumset
sum-total
sumtree
sum-up
sum up
vector sum
wedge sum
zero-sum
zero-sum game
outsum
oversum
resum
summability
summable
summate
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