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adjective
1.
Constituting the full quantity or extent; complete.  Synonyms: entire, full.  "Gave full attention" , "A total failure"
2.
Complete in extent or degree and in every particular.  Synonym: full.  "A total eclipse" , "A total disaster"
noun
1.
The whole amount.  Synonyms: aggregate, sum, totality.
2.
A quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers.  Synonyms: amount, sum.
verb
(past & past part. totaled or totalled; pres. part. totaling or totalling)
1.
Add up in number or quantity.  Synonyms: add up, amount, come, number.  "The bill came to $2,000"
2.
Determine the sum of.  Synonyms: add, add together, add up, sum, sum up, summate, tally, tot, tot up, tote up.
3.
Damage beyond the point of repair.  "The rock star totals his guitar at every concert"



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"Total" Quotes from Famous Books



... to answer all inquiries intelligently. The number who at first failed or refused to comply was only one hundred, and of manufacturers less than twenty; and these all subsequently made the necessary returns. The total answers of all kinds received at the census office was 13,000,000, at a cost to the State of one dollar for each ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. • Various
... ground which they had assisted to reap, the names of the victorious dead were known and listed. The enemy's fallen had to be content with counting. But of that they got enough: many of them were counted several times, and the total, as given afterward in the official report of the victorious commander, denoted rather ...
— The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. II: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians • Ambrose Bierce
... in cash down what I want, nor anything like it," said Burchill. "I may want an advance that you can pay—but it will only be an advance. What I want is ten per cent. on the total value ...
— The Herapath Property • J. S. Fletcher
... that the soil itself is the greatest storehouse of plant-food is shown by the following average of thirty-five analyses of the total content of the first eight inches of surface soils, per acre: 3521 pounds of nitrogen, 4400 pounds of phosphoric acid, 19,836 pounds of potash. Much of this is unavailable, but good tillage, green-manuring, and proper management tend to unlock it and at the same time ...
— Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) • L. H. Bailey
... dollars' worth of trust companies. Mind you, I do not say you own all this, but that you exercise a controlling interest. That is all that is necessary. In short, you exercise a controlling interest in such a proportion of the total investments of the United States, as to set the pace for all the rest. Now to my point. In the last few years seventy billions of dollars have been artificially added to the capitalization of the nation's ...
— Theft - A Play In Four Acts • Jack London


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