Dictionary entry details
• SUM (noun)
Meaning:
A quantity of money
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Synonyms:
amount of money; sum; sum of money; amount
Context examples:
he borrowed a large sum / the amount he had in cash was insufficient
Hypernyms ("sum" is a kind of...):
assets (anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sum"):
purse (a sum of money offered as a prize)
peanuts (an insignificant sum of money; a trifling amount)
payroll; paysheet (the total amount of money paid in wages)
advance; cash advance (an amount paid before it is earned)
coverage; insurance coverage (the total amount and type of insurance carried)
figure (an amount of money expressed numerically)
loss; red; red ink (the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue)
defalcation (the sum of money that is misappropriated)
deductible ((taxes) an amount that can be deducted (especially for the purposes of calculating income tax))
contribution (an amount of money contributed)
cash surrender value (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)
gain (the amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operating)
purse (a sum of money spoken of as the contents of a money purse)
Meaning:
A quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
total; sum; amount
Hypernyms ("sum" is a kind of...):
quantity (something that has a magnitude and can be represented in mathematical expressions by a constant or a variable)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sum"):
grand total (the sum of the sums of several groups of numbers)
subtotal (the sum of part of a group of numbers)
Meaning:
The final aggregate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
sum total; summation; sum
Context example:
the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered
Hypernyms ("sum" is a kind of...):
accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sum"):
aggregate; congeries; conglomeration (a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together)
Meaning:
The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
nitty-gritty; inwardness; heart and soul; essence; gist; pith; kernel; substance; meat; nub; sum; core; center; marrow; heart
Context examples:
the gist of the prosecutor's argument / the heart and soul of the Republican Party / the nub of the story
Hypernyms ("sum" is a kind of...):
cognitive content; content; mental object (the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sum"):
bare bones ((plural) the most basic facts or elements)
hypostasis ((metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality)
haecceity; quiddity (the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other)
quintessence (the purest and most concentrated essence of something)
stuff (a critically important or characteristic component)
Meaning:
The whole amount
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
total; aggregate; totality; sum
Hypernyms ("sum" is a kind of...):
unit; whole (an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity)
Meaning:
The basic unit of money in Uzbekistan
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("sum" is a kind of...):
Uzbekistani monetary unit (monetary unit in Uzbekistan)
Meaning:
A set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
join; sum; union
Context example:
let C be the union of the sets A and B
Hypernyms ("sum" is a kind of...):
set (a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sum"):
direct sum (a union of two disjoint sets in which every element is the sum of an element from each of the disjoint sets)
• SUM (verb)
Meaning:
Be a summary of
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
sum; summarise; sum up; summarize
Context example:
The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper
Hypernyms (to "sum" is one way to...):
say; state; tell (express in words)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Determine the sum of
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
tote up; add together; tot up; summate; tot; total; add up; sum; sum up; tally; add
Context example:
Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town
Hypernyms (to "sum" is one way to...):
count; enumerate; number; numerate (determine the number or amount of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
