Pronunciation Noun
total (plural totals)
- An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.
- A total of £145 was raised by the bring-and-buy stall.
- (informal, mathematics) Sum.
- The total of 4, 5 and 6 is 15.
- (sum) sum
- French: total
- German: Gesamtbetrag, Gesamtsumme
- Italian: totale
- Portuguese: total
- Russian: ито́г
- Spanish: total, montante
total
- Entire; relating to the whole of something.
- The total book is rubbish from start to finish. The total number of votes cast is 3,270.
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314 ↗, page 0147 ↗:
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
- (used as an intensifier) Complete; absolute.
- He is a total failure.
- (entire) entire, full, whole; see also Thesaurus:entire
- (complete) absolute, complete, utter; see also Thesaurus:total
- French: entier, tout, total
- German: ganz, gesamt
- Italian: totale, intero
- Portuguese: total
- Russian: це́лый
- Spanish: total
total (totals, present participle totalling; past and past participle totalled)
- (transitive) To add up; to calculate the sum of.
- When we totalled the takings, we always got a different figure.
- To equal a total of; to amount to.
- That totals seven times so far.
- (transitive, US, slang) to demolish; to wreck completely. (from total loss)
- Honey, I’m OK, but I’ve totaled the car.
- (intransitive) To amount to; to add up to.
- It totals nearly a pound.
- French: totaliser
- German: aufaddieren, zusammenaddieren, zusammennehmen
- German: schrotten
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