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Sum Total

Definition: Sum Total

Sum Total

Noun

1. The final aggregate; "the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Sum Total

Synonym: sum (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Sum Total

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Money

Sum, amount; balance, balance sheet; sum total; proceeds;(receipts).

Whole

All, the whole, total, aggregate, one and all, gross amount, sum, sum total, tout ensemble, length and breadth of,

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Sum Total

English words defined with "sum total": aggregatecongeries, conglomerationJack pot. (references)
Specialty definitions using "sum total": chain radar beaconNursing Processvocational aptitude, vocational capacity. (references)

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Modern Usage: Sum Total

DomainUsage

Screenplays

And you wonder, you ask yourself, what the sum total of your life represents. (The Bridge on the River Kwai; writing credit: Pierre Boulle)

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

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Familiar Quotations: Sum Total

AuthorQuotation

Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

Thomas Carlyle

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Sum Total

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

As sum total, and to embrace all in a world, the (r)gamin is a being who amuses himself because he is unfortunate.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translation: Sum Total

Language Translations for "sum total"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

sumtotal (aggregate, grand total), samlet sum (aggregate, grand total). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

totaalcijfer (aggregate, grand total), totaalbedrag (amount, sum), totaal generaal (aggregate, grand total), totaal bedrag (aggregate, amount claimed, grand total, sum of amounts), totaal (amount, at all, complete, completely, entirely, full, integral, overall, quite, sum, through, total, totally, whole, wholly). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

yhteenlaskettu summa. (various references)

   

French

  

somme totale, total général. (various references)

   

German

  

Gesamtsumme (footing, grand total, total, total amount). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

γενικό σύνολο (grand total). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

סך "כל (aggregate, sum, total, totality, toto). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

gunggung. (various references)

   

Italian

  

somma totale (aggregate, grand total), somma finale (aggregate, grand total), somma complessiva (aggregate, grand total), totale generale aggregato (aggregate, grand total), totale generale (aggregate, grand total), totale complessivo (aggregate, grand total). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

総額 (total amount), 総' , 合計 (total amount). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

そうがく (musical performance, total amount), そうわ (episode, transmission), "うけい (total amount). (various references)

   

Manx

  

lane-sym. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

umsay otaltay

   

Romanian

  

sumã totalã (grand sum, gross amount). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

suma total (aggregate, grand total), suma final (aggregate, grand total), total general (aggregate, grand total). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

totalsumma (total, totality). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ผลรวมทั้งหม". (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Sum Total

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: mulattos.

Words within the letters "a-l-m-o-s-t-t-u"

-1 letter: mulatto, outlast.

-2 letters: almost, moults, outsat, smalto, stomal, totals, utmost.

-3 letters: altos, alums, atoms, autos, loams, lotas, lotus, louts, malts, matts, mauls, mauts, moats, molas, molts, motts, moult, mutts, sault, smalt, smolt, solum, stoat, stoma, stout, sutta, talus, tauts, toast, tolas, tolus, total, touts.

-4 letters: alms, also, alto, alts, alum, amus, atom, auto, lams.

 Words containing the letters "a-l-m-o-s-t-t-u"
 

+1 letter: mulattoes.

 

+2 letters: mutilators, stimulator.

 

+3 letters: ethambutols, milquetoast, mutilations, petrolatums, stimulation, stimulators, stimulatory, ultrasmooth.

 

+4 letters: automobilist, milquetoasts, noctambulist, stimulations, stratocumuli, tetrazoliums, tolbutamides.

 

+5 letters: automobilists, documentalist, malnutritions, multihospital, multimegatons, noctambulists, outplacements, overstimulate, restimulation, sansculottism, stratocumulus, ultramontanes.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Quotations: Familiar
6. Quotations: Fiction
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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