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sum
sum is a 3-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars; the amount or whole of any number of individuals or particulars added together; as, the sum of 5 and 7 is 12. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 7 · 16 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars; the amount or whole of any number of individuals or particulars added together; as, the sum of 5 and 7 is 12.
- 2noun
A quantity of money or currency; any amount, indefinitely; as, a sum of money; a small sum, or a large sum.
- 3noun
The principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the amount; the substance; compendium; as, this is the sum of all the evidence in the case; this is the sum and substance of his objections.
- 4noun
Height; completion; utmost degree.
- 5noun
A problem to be solved, or an example to be wrought out.
- 6transitive verb
To bring together into one whole; to collect into one amount; to cast up, as a column of figures; to ascertain the totality of; -- usually with up.
- 7transitive verb
To bring or collect into a small compass; to comprise in a few words; to condense; -- usually with up.
- 8transitive verb
To have (the feathers) full grown; to furnish with complete, or full-grown, plumage.
- 9noun
the whole amount
- 10noun
a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
- 11noun
the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
"the gist of the prosecutor's argument"
"the heart and soul of the Republican Party"
- 12noun
the final aggregate
"the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered"
Synonyms
- 13noun
a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
"let C be the union of the sets A and B"
- 14noun
a quantity of money
"he borrowed a large sum"
"the amount he had in cash was insufficient"
Synonyms
- 15verb
determine the sum of
"Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town"
- 16verb
be a summary of
"The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper"
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