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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Determine the sum of
Example:
Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town
Synonyms:
add; add together; add up; sum; sum up; summate; tally; tot; tot up; total; tote up
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "add up" is one way to...):
count; enumerate; number; numerate (determine the number or amount of)
Verb group:
add; add together (make an addition by combining numbers)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Be reasonable or logical or comprehensible
Synonyms:
add up; make sense
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
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
Sense 3
Meaning:
Develop into
Example:
nothing came of his grandiose plans
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
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
Sense 4
Meaning:
Add up in number or quantity
Example:
The bill came to $2,000
Synonyms:
add up; amount; come; number; total
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
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
