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I've always been - as a teacher, as graduate student, as a student, and I think, really, as a child - I've been interested in poems, but not so much for what the take home pay is, what you might sum up from them in moral or intellectual terms or whatever, but what's in the certain lines and how lines relates to other lines.
David Ferry

Meaning of "sum up" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SUM UP

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SUM UP

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sum up is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

WHAT DOES SUM UP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of sum up in the English dictionary

The definition of sum up in the dictionary is to summarize. Other definition of sum up is to form a quick opinion of.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SUM UP

sum
sum total
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 UP

back up
be made up
clam up
come up
dream up
drum up
end up
follow up
get up
give up
gum up
keep up
look up
set up
show up
sign up
stand up
start up
steam up
warm up

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

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SYNONYMS OF «SUM UP»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «sum up» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of sum up

Translation of «sum up» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SUM UP

Find out the translation of sum up to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sum up 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 up» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

总结
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

recapitular
570 millions of speakers

English

sum up
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

योग
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يُلَخِّصُ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

подводить итог
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

resumir
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

যোগ করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

résumer
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jumlahnya
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

zusammenfassen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

要約する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

요약하다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ringkesan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tóm tắt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மொத்த தொகை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बेरीज करा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Özetle
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

riassumere
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zsumować
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

підбивати підсумки
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

a totaliza
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανακεφαλαιώνω
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

som
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

räkna ihop
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

summere
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SUM UP»

The term «sum up» is quite widely used and occupies the 31.184 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sum up

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10 QUOTES WITH «SUM UP»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word sum up.
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J. G. Ballard
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
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Harold Bloom
If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.
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Carrie Brownstein
I'll admit that I'm not quite certain how to sum up an entire year in music anymore; not when music has become so temporal, so specific and personal, as if we each have our own weather system and what we listen to is our individual forecast.
4
James Callaghan
I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'.
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William Kingdon Clifford
To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Kresley Cole
If I could sum up 'Shadow's Claim' in six words: cage fights with hot alpha males. Seriously, though, while the fights are the backdrop for Trehan and Bettina's love story, the main emphasis is on how Trehan - a pitiless master assassin - wages the ultimate battle to win her heart.
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Hope Davis
It's too easy to sum up a person's character in one negative instant, and it doesn't put anything good out into the world.
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David Ferry
I've always been - as a teacher, as graduate student, as a student, and I think, really, as a child - I've been interested in poems, but not so much for what the take home pay is, what you might sum up from them in moral or intellectual terms or whatever, but what's in the certain lines and how lines relates to other lines.
9
Robert Frost
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
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Dag Hammarskjold
'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUM UP»

Discover the use of sum up in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sum up and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Introduction to COMMON LISP
(apply f '(1234)) (apply f 1 2 '(3 4)) (apply f 1 2 3 4 nil) We can rewrite the above sum-up and fix it so that you can specify arguments to a function which can take more than two arguments. >(defun sum-up* (f n ferest x fcaux (sum 0)) (dotimes ...
Taiichi Yuasa, Masami Hagiya, 1987
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A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet. 1871
But my true love is grown to such excess, I cannot sum up half my sum of wealth. Fri. L. Come, come with me, and we will make short work ; For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone 36 Till holy church incorporate two in one. [Exeunt. ACT III.
William Shakespeare, Horace Howard Furness, 1871
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Quantitative Aptitude For Cat And Other Mba Entrance ...
How many terms of the arithmetic series 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, ... sum up to 780? (1) 19 ( 2)39 (3)20 (4)38 69. If 16 times the 16th term of an arithmetic series is 31 times the 31st term of the series, then find the value of the 47th term of the series.
Time, 2010
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A Programmer's Companion to Algorithm Analysis
This value s can easily be obtained as follows; it depends on the word length used for the representation of sum: sum :=0.0; i:=1.0; while sum < sum +1.0/1 do { sum:=sum + 1.0/i; i:=i+1.0 } ; s : =i Let us now sum up from the back; here we ...
Ernst L. Leiss, 2006
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Principles of Program Design: Problem-Solving with JavaScript
•The sum up to 4 can be defined as 4 plus the sum up to 3. •The sum up to 3 can be defined as 3 plus the sum up to 2. •The sum up to 2 can be defined as 2 plus the sum up to 1. • Finally, the sum up to 1 can simply be defined as 1. This is the ...
Paul Addison, 2011
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Sum of the Parts: The Mathematics and Politics of Region, ...
First, I think that the poems, when juxtaposed, illustrate nicely the contrast between the idealized version of NewEngland and its dark, inverted version; they provide a means here to both sum up and move forward. Carruth provides a good ...
Kent C Ryden, 2011
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Programming in C++
Once i exceeds n, the control is transferred to the statement cout << "sum = " << sum; which displays the sum up to n natural numbers. It is important to note that there are three steps employed to construct a loop: 1. Initialization 2. Checking ...
M. T. Somashekara, 2009
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Synthesis of Strategies for Non-zero-sum Repeated Games
To sum up, we present a general framework for constructing strategies from data in repeated games. This framework revolves around three key data structures for opponent modeling and decision making in repeated games: opponent models, ...
Tsz-Chiu Au, 2008
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Sum It Up: A Thousand and Ninety-Eight Victories, a Couple ...
Pat continues to be a fighter, facing this new challenge the way she's faced every other--with hard work, perseverance, and a sense of humor. From the Hardcover edition.
Pat Head Summitt, Sally Jenkins, 2013
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The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice
Again the figure anaphora is used -'Of one. . .gum' -to gather up the fragments of his life since marriage, even as the figure was used in his early speech to sum up his hard experiences, and each branch of the figure contains an element of ...
William Shakespeare, J. H. Walter, 1976

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUM UP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sum up is used in the context of the following news items.
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9 Images That Perfectly Sum Up What It Means To Be 'Type B'
They perfectly sum up what it means to have a laid-back personality. type b meaning ... Type Bs don't get wrapped up in the details -- and that's more than OK. 7. «Huffington Post, Jun 15»
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9 graphs that perfectly sum up Christmas
Imagine if you had to sum up the true meaning of Christmas (pigs in blankets, no ... Here's nine graphs, courtesy of users of GraphJam.com that pretty much sum ... «Metro, Dec 14»
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Let the Minions from 'Despicable Me' Sum Up the World Cup and …
Let the Minions from 'Despicable Me' Sum Up the World Cup and Soccer For You. share. 0. An error occurred. Try watching this video on www.youtube.com, ... «Celebuzz, Jun 14»
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These Line Graphs Perfectly Sum Up Our Lives From Start to Finish
During the drive home from work, I recently found myself listening to NPR. On the program All Things Considered, the host talked about President Obama's big ... «Huffington Post, Jan 14»
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Can You Sum Up Your Year in Just 6 Words?
Last March, I discovered a phenomenon called the Six-Word Memoir Project, an endeavor of Larry Smith, creator of Smith Magazine, in which readers submit ... «Huffington Post, Dec 10»

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