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SUM UP
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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 "sum 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:
Give a summary (of)
Example:
I will now summarize
Synonyms:
resume; sum up; summarise; summarize
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "sum up" is one way to...):
ingeminate; iterate; reiterate; repeat; restate; retell (to say, state, or perform again)
Verb group:
sum; sum up; summarise; summarize (be a summary of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "sum up"):
abstract (give an abstract (of))
precis (make a summary (of))
docket (make a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe it in a list)
recap; recapitulate (summarize briefly)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 3
Meaning:
Be a summary of
Example:
The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper
Synonyms:
sum; sum up; summarise; summarize
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "sum up" is one way to...):
say; state; tell (express in words)
Verb group:
resume; sum up; summarise; summarize (give a summary (of))
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
