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sum Noun

— A sum is an amount of money, usually a large amount. The company had been spending large sums on publicity and advertising. It allows the corporation to pay its workers a lump sum of up to £37,000 on leaving. — The sum is the total of adding or subtracting several numbers or amounts. The total output doesn't equal the sum of the inputs because the system is not 100% efficient. The sum of the three numbers will always equal 10.

sum Verb

— If you sum up, you conclude or bring together the main points. She sums up the situation by saying that the new family is never the same as the biological family.

sum

— noun (= amount) a quantity of money he borrowed a large sum the amount he had in cash was insufficient — noun a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers — noun the whole amount — noun the final aggregate the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered — noun (= gist, heart, heart and soul, nub) 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 the nub of the story — noun (= union) 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 — verb (= summarize, summarise) be a summary of The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper — verb (= add) determine the sum of Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town

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sum English » English

total amount aggregate add sum up totality quantity whole number tally summarize sum total summation tot figure count add up union summarise substance join essence addition add together tote up tot up summate result gross amount gross grand total gist full amount total amount sum of money size problem pith nub nitty-gritty meat marrow major total main point kernel inwardness heart and soul heart foot entirety

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Conjugation sum conjugation

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sum · verb

Examples sum examples

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Simple sentences

My father died, leaving a large sum of money.
He demanded a large sum of money from me.
The sum of the squares of the legs is equal to the square of the hypotenuse.
Tom owes me a relatively large sum of money.
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Cole's Axiom: The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.
Please sum up your idea.
How did you come by such a large sum of money?
The old man contributed a large sum of money to the poor.
That sum of money won't make or mar us.
I've never had such a large sum of money.
This sum of money won't go far.
The sum of all the angles in a triangle equals 180 degrees.
The sum of two plus three plus four is nine.
A thousand dollars is a large sum.
To Brian's surprise, his debt amounted to a considerable sum.
How did you come by such a big sum of money?
Five thousand dollars is a large sum of money.
Five hundred dollars is a small sum for him.
The sum of 12, 24, 7 and 11 is 54.
I had to pay a large sum of money to get it back.

Movie subtitles

So, to sum up: teenagers are jerks.
Every woman alive is the sum of all she ever did and felt and was.
The money will be collected at the home of the grand duchess, who will pay out a sum of 5,000 francs.
The criminal had had his accomplices arrested to keep the loot for himself And the reward for his arrest was a very large sum of money.
Our society offers you the sum of twenty million in exchange for rights to the Devil's Field.
I bear witness by this means having sold my lot called the Devil's Field to Peter Rog for the sum of twelve thousand marks.
The gentleman, having been corrupted upon contact with the courtesan, plans on getting this great sum by any means necessary.
So 47, that's 47 and we take the Ludolphian number. 3.14, the square above the hypotenuse equals the sum o squares above both sides.
I was desperately in need of a certain big sum of money.
Our job is to increase the sum of human knowledge of the past, not to satisfy our own curiosity.
This miserable sum is enough for an entire family... until the not-so-distant day when the practice is outlawed.
And when they're ready to pay any sum we ask, then I'm told to back off and forget about the money.
Sum up, Mr. Twitchell.
Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives that there be appropriated as a loan a sum sufficient to create a national boys' camp to be paid back to the United States Treasury by contributions from boys of America.
To sum it up.
That's an insulting sum to offer.
But, I confide in you, that we are being held Virtually as prisoners at the Sun Inn. The sum involved is admittedly trifling.
Well, the old lady got quite a sum out of me that time.
While it is regrettable, we must remember that the treaty by which your foster father received annually a sum of money from my government for his extraordinary services ceased automatically to exist on the occasion of his death.
And as I left without a large sum of money, I require an immediate advance of 10,000 francs. As paragraph 43 of my contract states.
My father left me a large sum.
It's now necessary, to make things clear, that I sum up the situation in a family speech.
The sum of the square roots of two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side.
Will it be a very large sum?
A sum it is, girl. A sum.
Miss Powers, we understand that one of the newspapers has offered you a sum of money for a story by you touching on this unfortunate affair.
It's a large sum, but I can give it up knowing it saved a child's life.
The same Emile Winkleman, beard and all, vanishes from the charity hospital. And with him, a magnificent sum of money belonging to the state.
To me, this was a fabulous sum!
Any sum placed beyond the line becomes a bet.
Even for a thief, such a sum would've been magnificent!
An oddball, a maniac. In sum, a sleepwalker.
I mean, when it happens, you'll come into quite a tidy sum, won't you, Henry? Mm.
But it's an investment of such a large sum.
Well, what I meant was that maybe we could just make it a lump sum this time.
It's such a small sum.

News and current affairs

The lesson is obvious: the whole is more than the sum of its parts.
That sum will not come from the poor.
The annual capital inflow is equal each year to the US current-account deficit - the sum of the trade deficit plus the net interest and dividends that America's government and businesses owe to the rest of the world.
If these scraps were to be the sum total of the Nice summit, it will prove unsatisfactory, even a failure.
Non-Western societies often espouse a communitarian ethic that sees society as more than the sum of its individual members, and considers duties to be more important than rights.
In sum, the fact that the US trade balance has defied gravity for so many years has made it possible for the dollar to do so, too.
In sum, the lesson of the new economy is not that one becomes rich without any effort, simply by speculating on the stock market.
In sum, Americans are confronting fundamental differences about the right type of school, pension, and healthcare for the future.
In sum, an incumbent vice president who loses with an economy such as exists in America today should retire to private life.
Too many people think of economics as a zero-sum game, and that China's success is coming at the expense of the rest of the world.
But economics is really a positive-sum game.
Here, too, the sum needed would probably be rather small compared to the overall EU budget.
In sum, certain behavioral innovations seem to appear in Africa between 10,000 and 30,000 years before Neanderthals express them.
Is it naive to believe that the world amounts to more than zero-sum thinking?
Coupled with this is a zero-sum view of the world, in which any Chinese gain in the share of the global economy, or any increased presence in many parts of the world, must be at the expense of the US or other powers.
The World Cup allows all of the supporters of one country to come together at one moment for one game between two groups that must, like them, become more than the sum of their parts.
She is tempted by the shortcut Song promises and allows herself to be seduced by him in turn for a large sum of cash and luxury apartment.
Such diplomatic realism need not lead to zero-sum outcomes, as the example of European integration demonstrates.
Such projects underscore the zero-sum mentality that seemingly characterizes China's water-policy calculations.
The sum of all trade balances in the world is equal to zero, which means that not all countries can be net exporters - and that currency wars end up being zero-sum games.
One hopes that Egypt's defeated Islamists will move from the politics of vengeance to a soul-searching process that leads to the recognition that democracy is not a zero-sum game in which the winner takes all.
The arithmetic of global trade implies that the sum of all trade deficits equals the sum of all trade surpluses.
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