ADD UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does add up mean? 

• ADD UP (verb)
  The verb ADD UP has 4 senses:

1. develop into
2. determine the sum of
3. add up in number or quantity
4. be reasonable or logical or comprehensible

  Familiarity information: ADD UP used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADD UP (verb)

Meaning:

Develop into

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

add up; amount; come

Context examples:

This idea will never amount to anything / nothing came of his grandiose plans

Hypernyms (to "add up" is one way to...):

become; turn (undergo a change or development)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "add up"):

aggregate (amount in the aggregate to)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Meaning:

Determine the sum of

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

tote up; tot up; tot; summate; add together; sum; add up; total; sum up; tally; add

Context example:

Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town

Hypernyms (to "add up" is one way to...):

count; enumerate; number; numerate (determine the number or amount of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Meaning:

Add up in number or quantity

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

number; total; amount; add up; come

Context examples:

The bills amounted to $2,000 / The bill came to $2,000

Hypernyms (to "add up" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "add up"):

work out (be calculated)

outnumber (be larger in number)

average; average out (amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain)

make (add up to)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Meaning:

Be reasonable or logical or comprehensible

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

make sense; add up

Hypernyms (to "add up" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
It ----s that CLAUSE