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单词 sum total
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sum totaln.

Brit. /ˌsʌm ˈtəʊtəl/, U.S. /ˌsəm ˈtoʊdl/
Inflections: Plural sums total, sum totals.
Forms: see sum n.1 and total adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: sum n.1, total adj.
Etymology: < sum n.1 + total adj., after post-classical Latin summa totalis (see summa totalis n.). Compare summa totalis n.Compare Anglo-Norman sume totale, Middle French, French somme totale (14th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman, mid 15th cent. in continental French).
1. The total amount or aggregate of all items in an account; (more generally) the total amount being enumerated, the total number.
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the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [noun] > result, sum > signal of
numberc1300
sum totalc1450
tally1886
c1450 Art Nombryng in R. Steele Earliest Arithm. in Eng. (1922) 41 Ioyne the produccioun, and þere wol be the some totalle.
1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 325 Somme Totell of almaner Costes Charges & Expences.
1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xvii. f. 30 To knowe the hole charge of all the partyculers, what they be at the first syght, in the sommes totall.
c1535 Ploughman's Tale i. sig. B.i The hye goodes frendshyp hem makes They toteth on her somme totall.
1612 W. Colson Art Arith. in Gen. Treasury B bb 2 b Of Substraction... The first number is to be called the Maior, grosse sum, sum total, or superior number... The second is named the Minor... The third is called the Remainer.
1675 E. Cocker Morals 4 Compute your Sins Sum-Total for a Year.
1743 J. Bulkeley & J. Cummins Voy. to South-seas Pref. p. xx The Sum Total we shall ever receive for our Voyage to the South-Seas.
1797 Parl. Reg. 1797–1802 II. 419 The respective increase of monthly pay for able seamen, ordinary seamen, and landmen..would produce a sum total yearly £.351,000.
1864 Intellectual Observer 6 273 The Mint is each day engaged in adding to the sums total.
a1865 E. C. Gaskell Wives & Daughters (1866) I. xxii. 258 Every time the sum-totals came to different amounts.
1913 Sat. Evening Post 22 Feb. 7/3 The sum total in the entire United States paid to professional and semiprofessional musicians is not far from fifty million dollars.
1989 Nature 7 Dec. 619/2 Thus the odds against even four flavours are drastically lengthened and the three known may be the sum total.
2013 L. Billings Five Billion Years Solitude vi. 133 As far as geologists can discern, over the course of its 4.5-billion-year existence, ice caps have graced our planet's poles for only a sum total of about 600 million years.
2. The total amount or quantity of something abstract or immaterial; the totality or whole of something. Also: an outcome, a result.
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the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [noun] > result, sum
telc1000
tale?c1225
tailc1330
reckoningc1392
suma1400
aggregatec1443
count1483
sum total1549
total1557
computation1586
calculation1646
quotient1659
tally1674
amount1751
tot1755
summation1841
1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 2 Tim. ii. f. xxii Teache faith to be the summe total of the ghospels doctrine.
1660 Bp. J. Taylor Worthy Communicant i. §2. 38 There are two great Sermons of the Gospel which are the summe total and abreviature of the whole word of God.
1726 Bp. J. Butler 15 Serm. xi. 216 These particular Enjoyments make up the Sum Total of our Happiness.
1781 H. Walpole Let. 9 Sept. (1955) XXIX. 152 This is the sum total of what I can learn.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iii. ii. 155 The diseased things that were spoken, done, the sum-total whereof is the French Revolution.
1875 Punch 22 May 215/1 The session will have done something to lessen the sum-total of human suffering.
1906 E. Anwyl Celtic Relig. i. 5 To the sum-total of these religious ideas contributions have been made from many sources.
1973 Gramophone Jan. 1383/2 The sum total is magnificent mood music.
2001 Independent on Sunday 28 Jan. (Culture section) 2/4 The sum total of the films builds an unknowability in the world that is as much emotional as intellectual.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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