» sum
Words people most associate with “sum”:
- add,
- total,
- addition,
- difference,
- maths
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Noun (6 meanings)
1. a quantity of money.
Examples:
- “he borrowed a large sum”,
- “the amount he had in cash was insufficient”
sum is a type of:
- assets (noun) - anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company
types of sum:
- advance, cash advance (noun) - an amount paid before it is earned
- cash surrender value (noun) - the amount that the insurance company will pay on a given life insurance policy if the policy is cancelled prior to the death of the insured
- contribution (noun) - an amount of money contributed
- coverage, insurance coverage (noun) - the total amount and type of insurance carried
- deductible (noun) - (taxes) an amount that can be deducted (especially for the purposes of calculating income tax)
- defalcation (noun) - the sum of money that is misappropriated
- figure (noun) - an amount of money expressed numerically
- gain (noun) - the amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operating
- gross, revenue, receipts (noun) - the entire amount of income before any deductions are made
- loss, red ink, red (noun) - the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue
- payroll, paysheet (noun) - the total amount of money paid in wages
- peanuts (noun) - an insignificant sum of money
- purse (noun) - a sum of money offered as a prize
- purse (noun) - a sum of money spoken of as the contents of a money purse
sum is a type of:
- quantity (noun) - the concept that something has a magnitude and can be represented in mathematical expressions by a constant or a variable
types of sum:
- grand total (noun) - the sum of the sums of several groups of numbers
- subtotal (noun) - the sum of part of a group of numbers
sum is derivationally related to:
Example:
- “the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered”
sum is a type of:
- collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage (noun) - several things grouped together or considered as a whole
types of sum:
- aggregate, congeries, conglomeration (noun) - a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together
sum is derivationally related to:
4. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience.
kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty
Examples:
- “the gist of the prosecutor's argument”,
- “the heart and soul of the Republican Party”,
- “the nub of the story”
sum is a type of:
- content, cognitive content, mental object (noun) - the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
types of sum:
- bare bones (noun) - (plural) the most basic facts or elements
- hypostasis (noun) - (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality
- quiddity, haecceity (noun) - the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other
- quintessence (noun) - the purest and most concentrated essence of something
- stuff (noun) - a critically important or characteristic component
sum is derivationally related to:
- all-important, all important, crucial, essential, of the essence (adjective) - of the greatest importance
- cardinal, central, fundamental, key, primal (adjective) - serving as an essential component
- meaty, substantive (adjective) - being on topic and prompting thought
- pithy, sententious (adjective) -
- to summate (verb) - form or constitute a cumulative effect
sum is a type of:
sum is derivationally related to:
- to aggregate, combine (verb) - gather in a mass, sum, or whole
- to aggregate (verb) - amount in the aggregate to
- aggregate, aggregated, aggregative, mass (adjective) - formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole
- to total, tot, tot up, sum, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add together, tally, add up (verb) - determine the sum of
- to total, number, add up, come, amount (verb) - add up in number or quantity
Example:
- “let C be the union of the sets A and B”
sum is a type of:
- set (noun) - a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
types of sum:
- direct sum (noun) - a union of two disjoint sets in which every element is the sum of an element from each of the disjoint sets
Verb (2 meanings)
Example:
- “The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper”
to sum is a way to:
to sum is derivationally related to:
- summarization, summarisation (noun) - the act of preparing a summary (or an instance thereof)
- summation, summing up, rundown (noun) - a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court)
Verb group:
2. determine the sum of.
to total, tot, tot up, sum, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add together, tally, add up
Example:
- “Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town”
to sum is a way to:
to sum is derivationally related to:
- addable, addible (adjective) - capable of being added or added to
- adder (noun) - a machine that adds numbers
- additive (adjective) - characterized or produced by addition
- count, counting, numeration, enumeration, reckoning, tally (noun) - the act of counting
- linear, additive (adjective) - designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree
- sum, total, totality, aggregate (noun) - the whole amount
- sum, amount, total (noun) - a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
- sum, summation, sum total (noun) - the final aggregate
- summation, addition, plus (noun) - the arithmetic operation of summing
Verb group:
- to add, add together (verb) - make an addition by combining numbers