total
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
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 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.
Base: tōtus
Affixes: -ālis
Inflected forms:
form: totals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: totall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more total
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most total
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: totall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: totals
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: totaling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: totalling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: totaled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: totaled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: totalled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: totalled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
form: totall
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.
pos: noun
examples: A total of £145 was raised by the bring-and-buy stall.
gloss: Sum.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: The total of 4, 5 and 6 is 15.
gloss: Entire; relating to the whole of something.
pos: adj
examples: The total book is rubbish from start to finish.  The total number of votes cast is 3,270.
Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
Each member brought a unique musical influence to the total sound.
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
gloss: Complete; absolute.
pos: adj
examples: He is a total failure.
Air waid! Wights out! Total bwackout!
gloss: Defined on all possible inputs.
pos: adj
examples: The Ackermann function is one of the simplest and earliest examples of a total computable function that is not primitive recursive.
gloss: Left total: Such that for every x in X there is a y in Y with x R y.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
gloss: Such that any two elements are comparable, i.e. for all a and b, either a ≤ b, or b ≤ a.
pos: adj
gloss: To add up; to calculate the sum of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: When we totalled the takings, we always got a different figure.
gloss: To equal a total of; to amount to.
pos: verb
examples: That totals seven times so far.
gloss: To demolish; to wreck completely. (from total loss)
pos: verb
tags: US
slang
transitive
examples: Honey, I’m OK, but I’ve totaled the car.
He acted real funny / He hocked up a rock and / It totaled my car!
Smashed up against a car at 3 AM, / The kids dressed up for basketball beat me in my head, / There's bum trash in my hall, and my place is ripped, / I totaled another amp, I'm calling in sick.
gloss: To amount to; to add up to.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: It totals nearly a pound.
Synonyms: full
whole
absolute
complete
utter
abject
frightful
arrant
categoric
categorical
consummate
decided
downright
full-blown
full-bore
full-on
mere
outright
out-and-out
perfect
precious
proper
pure
stark
rank
regular
right
root and branch
sheer
straight-out
thorough
thoroughgoing
total
unadulterated
unalloyed
unattenuated
uncompromising
unconditional
unfettered
unmitigated
unqualified
unreserved
unrestricted
wholesale
Antonyms: attenuated
conditional
depleted
half-assed
half-baked
hollowed out
incomplete
limited
mitigated
nontotal
partial
relative
reserved
Related words: successor
completely
entire
entirety
intact
damned
the dickens
:Category:English intensifiers
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: възлизам
roman: vǎzlizam
lang: Catalan
word: totalitzar
lang: Dutch
word: uitkomen op
lang: Dutch
word: gelijk zijn aan
lang: Finnish
word: olla
lang: Finnish
word: tehdä
lang: Indonesian
word: seluruhnya
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: tev bûn
lang: Polish
word: równać się
lang: Polish
word: wynosić
lang: Polish
word: wynieść
lang: Telugu
word: సరాసరి
roman: sarāsari