sum

Noun
  1. A quantity of money (synset 113352213)
    "he borrowed a large sum"; "the amount he had in cash was insufficient"
    is a type of: assets - anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company
    subtypes:
    • gain - the amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operating
    • gross, receipts, revenue - the entire amount of income before any deductions are made
    • 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
    • contribution - an amount of money contributed
    • deductible - (taxes) an amount that can be deducted (especially for the purposes of calculating income tax)
    • defalcation - the sum of money that is misappropriated
    • loss, red, red ink - the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue
    • figure - an amount of money expressed numerically
    • coverage, insurance coverage - the total amount and type of insurance carried
    • advance, cash advance - an amount paid before it is earned
    • payroll, paysheet - the total amount of money paid in wages
    • peanuts - an insignificant sum of money; a trifling amount
    • purse - a sum of money offered as a prize
    • purse - a sum of money spoken of as the contents of a money purse
    same as: amount, amount of money, sum of money
  2. A quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers (synset 105869651)
    is a type of: quantity - the concept that something has a magnitude and can be represented in mathematical expressions by a constant or a variable
    subtypes:
    • grand total - the sum of the sums of several groups of numbers
    • subtotal - the sum of part of a group of numbers
    same as: amount, total
  3. The final aggregate (synset 107975630)
    "the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered"
    is a type of: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection - several things grouped together or considered as a whole
    subtypes: aggregate, congeries, conglomeration - a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together
    same as: sum total, summation
  4. The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience (synset 105929717)
    "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"
    is a type of: cognitive content, content, mental object - the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
    subtypes:
    • 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
    same as: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance
  5. The whole amount (synset 104360881)
    is a type of: unit, whole - an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity
    same as: aggregate, total, totality
  6. A set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets (synset 108015154)
    "let C be the union of the sets A and B"
    is a type of: set - a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
    subtypes: direct sum - a union of two disjoint sets in which every element is the sum of an element from each of the disjoint sets
    same as: join, union
Verb
  1. Be a summary of (synset 202758570)
    "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper"
    is a type of: say, state, tell - express in words
    same as: sum up, summarise, summarize
    verb group: resume, sum up, summarise, summarize - give a summary (of)
  2. Determine the sum of (synset 200951320)
    "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town"
    is a type of: count, enumerate, number, numerate - determine the number or amount of
    same as: add, add together, add up, sum up, summate, tally, tot, tot up, total, tote up
    verb group: add, add together - make an addition by combining numbers

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