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Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
Thomas Carlyle

Meaning of "sum total" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SUM TOTAL

sum total  [sʌm ˈtəʊtəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SUM TOTAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sum total is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SUM TOTAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of sum total in the English dictionary

The definition of sum total in the dictionary is the sum total the result you get when you add numbers or amounts together. Other definition of sum total is the sum total of sth all of something.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SUM TOTAL


anecdotal
ˌænɛkˈdəʊtəl
antidotal
ˈæntɪˌdəʊtəl
dotal
ˈdəʊtəl
holophotal
ˌhɒləʊˈfəʊtəl
isophotal
ˈaɪsəʊˌfəʊtəl
notal
nəʊtəl
pronotal
prəʊˈnəʊtəl
retotal
ˌriːˈtəʊtəl
rotal
ˈrəʊtəl
sacerdotal
ˌsæsəˈdəʊtəl
sclerotal
sklɪəˈrəʊtəl
scrotal
ˈskrəʊtəl
subtotal
sʌbˈtəʊtəl
teetotal
tiːˈtəʊtəl
total
ˈtəʊtəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SUM TOTAL

sum
sum up
sumac
sumach
Sumatra
Sumatran
Sumba
Sumba Strait
Sumbawa
Sumer
Sumerian
sumless
summa
summa cum laude
Summa Theologica
summability
summable
summae
summand
summaries

WORDS THAT END LIKE SUM TOTAL

capital
crotal
crystal
dental
dicrotal
digital
environmental
experimental
extradotal
fundamental
grand total
horizontal
hospital
incremental
mental
metal
oriental
pivotal
running total
uprootal

Synonyms and antonyms of sum total in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «sum total» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SUM TOTAL

Find out the translation of sum total to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sum total from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sum total» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

总和
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

suma total de
570 millions of speakers

English

sum total
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कुल योग
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مجموع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

общая сумма
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

soma total
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পুরো যোগফল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

somme totale
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jumlah keseluruhan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Summe
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

合計
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Jumlah total
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tổng số tiền
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மொத்த எண்ணிக்கை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

एकूण बेरीज
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

toplamı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

somma totale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

suma
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Загальна сума
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sumă totală
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συνολικό άθροισμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

somtotaal
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

summan
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

summen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sum total

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SUM TOTAL»

The term «sum total» is regularly used and occupies the 65.104 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SUM TOTAL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sum total

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10 QUOTES WITH «SUM TOTAL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word sum total.
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Konrad Adenauer
History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
2
Maya Angelou
You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.
3
Kelley Armstrong
Everyone is the sum total of past experiences. A character doesn't just spring to life at age thirty.
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Thomas Carlyle
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
5
Joan Crawford
Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.
6
Joel Edgerton
The sum total of all my stop-starts have made me less concerned about the future. I'm just aware now that I'll always land on my feet somehow.
7
Mike Figgis
In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.
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Daniel Libeskind
Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.
9
Gary Lucas
The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.
10
Brit Marling
You are the sum total of the choices you make every day.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUM TOTAL»

Discover the use of sum total in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sum total and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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GREATER THAN THE SUM TOTAL: A Novel By: DC Doyle
A very wise person once told me that I was “greater than the sum total of everything that has happened, is happening, or will ever happen” in my life. At the time she said it to me, it was meaningless, just a bunch of words meant to take the sting ...
DC Doyle, 2014
2
Contemporary Capitalism and Marxist Economics
If this is so, there must always exist, in every market society, a certain relation between the sum total of prices (in pounds) and the sum total of values (in hours of labour). This quantitative relation between the sum total of prices and the sum  ...
Jacques Gouverneur, 1983
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A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, borough of ...
The Sum Total of the Yearly Charge of the poor People within the Parish ot St. Margaret's Westminster, 115/. 5 j. 5 d. The Sum Total , of the Yearly Receipt of the Parishioners within the said Parish for the Relief of the said Poor, 119/. 5 s. qd.
John Stow, John Mottley, 1735
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The royal treasury of England or a general history of taxes, ...
Total Value of Buckingham/hire The net Sum Total Value in Devonflme The net Sum Total Value of Oxfordshire The net Sum Total Value in Leicester/hire The net Sum Total Value in Derbyshire The net Sum Total Value in Sussex The net Sum ...
John Stevens, 1728
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Subject and Consciousness: A Philosophical Inquiry Into ...
On the other hand, if God is treated as being determined, then He includes negation within Himself; and the sum total of all realities is actually the sum total of all negations. For if God includes negation, then He must be solely negation in order ...
Oded Balaban, 1990
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A Select Collection of scarce and valuable Tracts on Money, ...
Therefore, as soon as money becomes properly diffused throughout any community; the value of the sum total of it in circulation, will be equal to the whole quantity of commodities in traflic, in that country: For so much money and goods as lie ...
Political Economy Club (LONDON), John Ramsay McCulloch, 1856
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Analysis of Chinese Macroeconomy
Since the last thirty years, surplus purchasing power has been growing very rapidly; moreover, the percentage of deposits in the sum total of surplus purchasing power is steadily catching up and even surpassing that of cash in hand.
Fengbo Zhang, 2008
8
商务英语综合教程: 第3册
People who built the great walls of Zimbabwe. c. Communities that laid irrigation canals and constructed stone-lined wells in Kenya. d. People who built well-laid terraces in Nigeria and East Africa. Passage 4 Culture is the sum total of all the ...
‎2004
9
Classical Indian Philosophy of Induction: The Nyaya Viewpoint
Gangesa presents the alternatives that smoke is produced by either a sum total of things that includes fire or excludes fire. The two alternatives are mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive. As Mathuranatha points out, all produced things ...
Kisor Kumar Chakrabarti, 2010
10
An intire system of arithmetic: or, Arithmetic in all its ...
Thus the Sum of the 3 upper Lines added to the Sum of the 2 lower, is equal to the Sum Total : 9876 For the Sum of any Parts added to the rest of the 5432 ' □ j Parts, must give the Sum Total of all the Parts 1234 which make the Whole. 567 Or ...
Edward Hatton, 1731

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUM TOTAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sum total is used in the context of the following news items.
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Trailer: 'The Sum Total of Our Memory: Facing Alzheimer's Together'
April 16, 2015 6:17 PM EDT - “The Sum Total of Our Memory: Facing Alzheimer's Together” is a documentary by Barbara Klutinis inspired by experiences with ... «Washington Post, Apr 15»

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