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Nov 7, 2009
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Synonyms for sum

Noun

1. sum, sum of money, amount, amount of money, assets
usage: a quantity of money; "he borrowed a large sum"; "the amount he had in cash was insufficient"
2. sum, amount, total, quantity
usage: a quantity obtained by addition
3. sum, summation, sum total, collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage
usage: the final aggregate; "the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered"
4. kernel, substance, core, center, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty, content, cognitive content, mental object
usage: 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"
5. sum, total, totality, aggregate, whole, whole thing, unit
usage: the whole amount
6. sum, Uzbekistani monetary unit
usage: the basic unit of money in Uzbekistan
7. union, sum, join, set
usage: 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

1. summarize, summarise, sum, sum up, state, say, tell
usage: be a summary of; "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper"
2. total, tot, tot up, sum, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add together, tally, add up, count, number, enumerate, numerate
usage: determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town"
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