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TOTAL.

Specialty Definition: TOTAL.

DomainDefinition

Literature

Total.
Books
30
27
66
Chapters
929
260
1,189
Verses
23,214
7,959
31,173
Words
592,439
181,253
773,692
Letters
2,728,800
838,380
3,567,180
Apocrypha. Books 14; chapters, 183; verses, 6,081; words, 252,185; letters, 1,063,876.
Middle book
Proverbs
2 Thess.
Middle chapter
Job xxix.
Rom. xiii. & xiv.
Middle verse
2 Chron. xx.
Acts xvii. 17.
(between verses 17 and 18)
Least verse
1 Chron. i. 25, John xi. 35.
Smallest chapter
Psalm cx vii.
Longest chapter
Psalm cxix.
Ezra vii. 21 contains all the letters of the alphabet except j.
2 Kings xix. and Isaiah xxxvii. are exactly alike.
The last two verses of 2 Chron. and the opening verses of Ezra are alike.
Ezra ii. and Nehemiah vii are alike.
The word and occurs in the Old Testament 35,543 times.
The word and occurs in the New Testament 10,684 times.
The word Jehovah occurs 6,835 times.
The letter Mem in the Hebrew text occurs 77,778 times.
The letter Vau in the Hebrew text occurs 76,922 times. (These are the most frequent.)
The letter Teth occurs 11,052 times.
The letter Samech occurs 13,580 times. (These are the least frequent.)
The Bible was divided into chapters by Cardinal. Hugo de Sancto-Caro, about 1236.
The Old Testament was divided into verses by Rabbi Mordecai Nathan; and the New Testament, in 1544, by R. Stephens, a French printer, it is said, while on horseback.
Of the 3,000 languages and dialects on the earth, the Bible has been translated into 180.
The Septuagint, a translation into Greek, was made in Egypt 285 B.C.
The first complete English translation was by Wicklif, A.D. 1380; the first French translation, in 1160; the first German, in 1460; the first American edition was printed at Boston in 1752.
The oldest MS. of the Bible in the British Museum is the "Codex Alexandrinus." Parts of the New Testament are omitted. The "Codex Vaticanus" is the oldest in the Vatican Library at Rome. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: TOTAL.

English words defined with "TOTAL.": centilepercentileUniversal umbel. (references)
Specialty definitions using "TOTAL.": bauxitic clayDeafness, Sudden. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Usage: TOTAL.

DomainUsage

Screenplays

246 total. (Rain Man; writing credit: Ronald Bass)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: TOTAL.

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

For Paris is a sum total.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: TOTAL.

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

TB cases among immigrants increased from 4,925 in 1986 to 7,640 in 1998, accounting for 42 percent of the national total. (references)

Business

Exports from Piedmont are 40.5% of Italy's total. (references)

The top five firms in the market account for 76.9 percent of the total. (references)

The U.S. share of the equipment imports was roughly 25 percent of the total. (references)

Economic History

Mexico

Colima currently produces 38% of Mexico's total. (references)

Mexico

Iron ore processing amounts to 15% of the national total. (references)

Latvia

In 1997 Latvia's exports to the CIS area were almost 30 percent of the total. (references)

Human Rights

Brazil

According to the Office of the Police Ombudswoman in Rio de Janiero state, there were 9 reported police homicides in the state during the first 6 months of the year, only a small fraction of the actual total. (references)

Brazil

During its first 27 months of operation, the office of the police ombudswoman in Rio de Janeiro state received 3,591 complaints from April 1999 through June 2000. Complaints against the uniformed police accounted for 60 percent of that total. (references)

Indigenous People

Chile

The Mapuches, from the south, account for approximately 930,000 of this total. (references)

Political Economy

BAHRAIN

The current outstanding amount is $504 million in total. (references)

BANGLADESH

The budget projected $1.4 billion in concessionary foreign aid loans and grants, a 15 percent rise from the final fiscal year 2001 total. (references)

Political Rights

Nigeria

These votes may have added an estimated 15 percent to Obasanjo's total figure; however, observers believe that even if they were thrown out, he still would have maintained roughly a 15 percent lead over Falae's total. (references)

Trade

Lebanon

Seven financing sources together represent three quarters of the total. (references)

Bulgaria

No single applicant may receive a quota allocation larger than 35 percent of the total. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

Since July 1, 1997, customs duties on goods manufactured and marketed in the UEMOA zone were reduced up to 60 percent in total. (references)

Women

Italy

The rule was designed to promote women's access to the higher echelons of public administration and is to apply in offices where women managers number less than a third of the total. (references)

Worker Rights

China

There also are two bilingual channels on which Tibetan language programs make up 15 percent of the total. (references)

China

Authorities report that courts handle approximately 20 cases involving crimes against state security each year, for which maximum prison sentences are 15 years for each count, not to exceed 20 years in total. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Anagrams: TOTAL.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters ".-a-l-o-t-t"

-1 letter: total.

-2 letters: alto, lota, tola.

-3 letters: alt, att, lat, lot, oat, tao, tat, tot.

-4 letters: al, at, la, lo, ta, to.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TOTAL.


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F 54 41 4C 2E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 01010100 01000001 01001100 00101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#84 &#65 &#76 &#46

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F 0054 0041 004C 002E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

544954354616

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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