Sum
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.
A quantity of money or currency; any amount, indefinitely; as, a sum of money; a small sum, or a large sum.
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.
Height; completion; utmost degree.
A problem to be solved, or an example to be wrought out.
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.
To bring or collect into a small compass; to comprise in a few words; to condense; -- usually with up.
To have (the feathers) full grown; to furnish with complete, or full-grown, plumage.
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Sum Quotations
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
Thomas Jefferson
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.
Wayne Dyer
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Aristotle
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
Karl Marx
Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
Jean-Paul Sartre
And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?
Henry Miller
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
Leo Tolstoy
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
Margaret Mead
Sum Translations
sum in Afrikaans is bedrag
sum in Dutch is somma, som, bedrag, totaal, summa
sum in Finnish is summa
sum in French is somme
sum in German is Summe, Summe, addieren
sum in Latin is summa
sum in Portuguese is soma
sum in Spanish is importe, suma
sum in Swedish is summa, tal
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