total
[noun]
Synonyms:
- whole, aggregate, entirety, full amount, sum, totality
[adjective]
Synonyms:
- complete, absolute, comprehensive, entire, full, gross, thoroughgoing, undivided, utter, whole
[verb]
Synonyms:
- amount to, come to, mount up to, reach
- add up, reckon, tot up

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Antonyms: partial, limited
Contrasted words: hampered, impeded, trammeled, restrained, restricted, stinted
Related Idioms: mount up to, pile up to
Related Words: overall, comprehensive, full, inclusive, plenary, teetotal, authoritative, absolute, arbitrary, despotic, omnipotent, monopolistic, out-and-out, unreserved, unrestricted, comprise, consist (of), stack up, equal, result (in), yield, crack up, smash

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English Thesaurus: calculate, work out, figure out, count, total, ...

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

Total trademark
a chain of petrol stations in the UK, owned by the European company TotalFinaElf

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

I. to‧tal¹ S1 W1 /ˈtəʊtl $ ˈtoʊ-/ adjective
[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: Medieval Latin totalis, from Latin totus 'whole']

1. [usually before noun] complete, or as great as is possible
total failure/disaster
The sales campaign was a total disaster.
a total ban on cigarette advertising
He looked at her with a total lack of comprehension.
a sport that demands total commitment

2. total number/amount/cost etc the number, amount etc that is the total:
total sales of 200,000 per year
Her total income was £10,000 a year.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

II. total² S2 W2 noun [countable]

1. the final number or amount of things, people etc when everything has been counted:
That’s £7 and £3.50, so the total is £10.50.
a total of 20/100 etc
A total of thirteen meetings were held to discuss the issue.
in total
There were probably about 40 people there in total.
the sum total (=the whole of an amount when everything is considered together)

2. grand total
a) the final total, including all the totals added together ⇒ subtotal
b) used humorously when you think the final total is small:
I earned a grand total of $4.15.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

III. total³ verb (past tense and past participle totalled, present participle totalling British English, totaled, totaling American English)

1. [linking verb, transitive] to reach a particular total:
The group had losses totalling $3 million this year.

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Total is used especially in journalism. In everyday English, people usually say that something makes or adds up to a particular total:
Three and six make nine.

2. [transitive] especially American English informal to damage a car so badly that it cannot be repaired:
Chuck totaled his dad’s new Toyota.
total something ↔ up phrasal verb
to find the total number or total amount of something by adding:
At the end of the game, total up everyone’s score to see who has won.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

total
noun
ADJ. annual, monthly | combined, cumulative, grand, overall, sum His two goals give him a grand total of 32 for the season. The sum total of my knowledge of biology is not impressive.
final | high, huge, large, record a record total of victories
low, small | global, national, world/worldwide | jobless, unemployment Britain's jobless total rose by 20,000 last month.
VERB + TOTAL add up to, give, make (up) Their earnings were £250, £300 and £420, giving a total of £970.
bring, take A donation of £250 has been received, bringing the total to £3,750.
achieve The Greens achieved a total of 18 seats.
TOTAL + VERB rise | fall
PREP. in ~ In total, they spent 420 hours on the project.
out of a ~ of 180 vehicles out of a total of 900 examined were not roadworthy.
~ of

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

total

make a total of 100 etc
The £1,750 raised by staff has been matched by the company, making a total of £3,500.
bring the total to 100 etc
Police arrested more than 200 protesters yesterday, bringing the total detained to nearly 500.
add to a total
He wants to add to his total of three Olympic gold medals.
the final total
Mrs Menzies said the final total could be as much as £750.
the sum total (=the whole of an amount, when everything is added together)
This was the sum total of her grandfather's possessions.
a combined/overall total (=the sum of two or more amounts added together)
The Jones family has a combined total of 143 years' service with the company.
an annual/monthly/weekly/daily total
The Government plans to increase the annual total of 2,500 adoptions by up to 50%.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

calculate formal to find out an amount, price, or value by adding numbers together:
The students calculated the cost of printing 5000 copies of their book.
work out to calculate something. Work out is less formal than calculate, and is more common in everyday English:
You need to work out how much you will need to borrow.
figure out (also figure American English) informal to calculate an amount:
We still haven't figured out how much it's all going to cost.
the method for figuring welfare payments
count to find out the total number of things or people in a group by looking at each one and adding them all together:
The teacher counted the children as they got on the bus.
total (also total up) to add a number of things together to get a final number:
Once the scores have been totaled, we will announce the winner.
Okay, now let's total up who had the most points.
quantify formal to say how much something costs, how much of it there is, how serious or effective it is etc:
I think it's difficult to quantify the cost at the moment, for a variety of reasons.
How do you quantify the benefits of the treatment?
a reliable method for quantifying the amount of calcium in the blood
assess formal to calculate what the value or cost of something is, or decide how good, bad etc something is:
The value of the paintings was assessed at $20 million.
They are still assessing the damage.
We need to have a better way of assessing students' progress.
estimate to guess an amount, price, or number as exactly as you can, based on the knowledge you have:
The police department estimates that the number of violent crimes will decrease by 2%.
put a figure on something to say what you think the exact total amount or value of something is, especially when it is a lot:
It's hard to put a figure on it, but the final cost is likely to be over £225 million.
The company has refused to put a figure on its losses.
project to calculate what an amount will be in the future, using the information you have now:
The company projects sales of $4 million this year.
a rough count (=not exact)
I made a rough count of the houses in the street.
a quick count
According to my quick count, there were 15.
a head count (=of how many people are present)
Make sure you do a head count before the children get back on the bus.
a word/page count (=of how many words or pages there are)
Your computer can do an automatic word count.
a traffic count (=of how many vehicles pass through a place)
We went to the main road at 9 am to begin our traffic count.
do/make a count
I looked at the report and did a quick page count.

[TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲

calculate formal to find out an amount, price, or value by adding numbers together:
The students calculated the cost of printing 5000 copies of their book.
work out to calculate something. Work out is less formal than calculate, and is more common in everyday English:
You need to work out how much you will need to borrow.
figure out (also figure American English) informal to calculate an amount:
We still haven't figured out how much it's all going to cost.
the method for figuring welfare payments
count to find out the total number of things or people in a group by looking at each one and adding them all together:
The teacher counted the children as they got on the bus.
total (also total up) to add a number of things together to get a final number:
Once the scores have been totaled, we will announce the winner.
Okay, now let's total up who had the most points.
quantify formal to say how much something costs, how much of it there is, how serious or effective it is etc:
I think it's difficult to quantify the cost at the moment, for a variety of reasons.
How do you quantify the benefits of the treatment?
a reliable method for quantifying the amount of calcium in the blood
assess formal to calculate what the value or cost of something is, or decide how good, bad etc something is:
The value of the paintings was assessed at $20 million.
They are still assessing the damage.
We need to have a better way of assessing students' progress.
estimate to guess an amount, price, or number as exactly as you can, based on the knowledge you have:
The police department estimates that the number of violent crimes will decrease by 2%.
put a figure on something to say what you think the exact total amount or value of something is, especially when it is a lot:
It's hard to put a figure on it, but the final cost is likely to be over £225 million.
The company has refused to put a figure on its losses.
project to calculate what an amount will be in the future, using the information you have now:
The company projects sales of $4 million this year.
add to put two or more numbers together to find the total:
If you add 7 and 5, you get 12.
subtract/take away to reduce one number by another number. take something away sounds more informal than subtract:
If you subtract 12 from 15, you get 3.
multiply to add a number to itself a particular number of times:
4 multiplied by 10 is 40.
divide to calculate how many times one number contains another number:
10 divided by 2 equals 5.

[TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲

total
ˈtəutl
See: sum total

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲