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Sum   /səm/   Listen
noun
Sum  n.  
1.
The aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars; the amount or whole of any number of individuals or particulars added together; as, the sum of 5 and 7 is 12. "Take ye the sum of all the congregation." Note: Sum is now commonly applied to an aggregate of numbers, and number to an aggregate of persons or things.
2.
A quantity of money or currency; any amount, indefinitely; as, a sum of money; a small sum, or a large sum. "The sum of forty pound." "With a great sum obtained I this freedom."
3.
The principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the amount; the substance; compendium; as, this is the sum of all the evidence in the case; this is the sum and substance of his objections.
4.
Height; completion; utmost degree. "Thus have I told thee all my state, and brought My story to the sum of earthly bliss."
5.
(Arith.) A problem to be solved, or an example to be wrought out. "A sum in arithmetic wherein a flaw discovered at a particular point is ipso facto fatal to the whole." "A large sheet of paper... covered with long sums."
Algebraic sum, as distinguished from arithmetical sum, the aggregate of two or more numbers or quantities taken with regard to their signs, as + or -, according to the rules of addition in algebra; thus, the algebraic sum of -2, 8, and -1 is 5.
In sum, in short; in brief. (Obs.) "In sum, the gospel... prescribes every virtue to our conduct, and forbids every sin."


verb
Sum  v. t.  (past & past part. summed; pres. part. summing)  
1.
To bring together into one whole; to collect into one amount; to cast up, as a column of figures; to ascertain the totality of; usually with up. "The mind doth value every moment, and then the hour doth rather sum up the moments, than divide the day."
2.
To bring or collect into a small compass; to comprise in a few words; to condense; usually with up. ""Go to the ant, thou sluggard," in few words sums up the moral of this fable." "He sums their virtues in himself alone."
3.
(Falconry) To have (the feathers) full grown; to furnish with complete, or full-grown, plumage. "But feathered soon and fledge They summed their pens (wings)."
Summing up, a compendium or abridgment; a recapitulation; a résumé; a summary.
Synonyms: To cast up; collect; comprise; condense; comprehend; compute.





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... followed the advice of economists. He had practised thrift. During his brief illness his society had supplied a doctor, and it provided a comfortable funeral. His widow was left with a small sum in hand to start her new life upon, and she increased it by at once pawning the superfluous furniture and the books. She lost no time hanging about the old home. Within a week she had dried her eyes, washed out her handkerchiefs, ...
— Essays in Rebellion • Henry W. Nevinson
... seems to say to the world, "thus things are, and I render them in such manner that your intelligence may be satisfied." This is an appeal to average experience—at the best the cumulative experience; and with the average, or with the sum, art cannot deal without derogation. The Spaniard seems to say: "Thus things are in my pictorial sight. Trust me, I apprehend them so." We are not excluded from his counsels, but we are asked to attribute a certain authority ...
— Essays • Alice Meynell
... office of Secretary of War in violation of the Tenure-of-Office Act. That alleged offense was repeated in varied but more or less specific forms, in every succeeding Article of the Impeachment except the Tenth, and constituted the sum and substance—the gravamen—of the entire indictment. It was the basis upon which the impeachment super-structure had been erected. Without that Article there was not only no foundation, but no coherence in the recital of Mr. Johnson's alleged offenses, and when that fell by its abandonment, ...
— History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, • Edumud G. Ross
... together an' offer a reward? I don't see why I ought to pay out money to 'stablish the innocence of all the men in Tinkletown. Let them do it if they feel that way about it. I got no objection to the taxpayers of Tinkletown oppropriatin' a sum out of the town treasury to prove they're innocent. Why don't you take it up with the selectmen, Anderson. I'm satisfied to leave my complaint as it is. I've been thinkin' it over, an' I believe I'd ruther git my divorce without knowin' who's the cause of it. The way it is now, I'm on friendly ...
— Anderson Crow, Detective • George Barr McCutcheon
... He is going so far away, and will have no money to spare for visits home. It must be a large sum which he has to repay, if the loss of it necessitated such a change in his friend's household. With everything in his favour it would take ...
— Betty Trevor • Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey


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