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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TO'TAL, a. [L. totalis, totus.]
1. Whole; full; complete; as total darkness; a total departure from the evidence; a total loss; the total sum or amount.
2. Whole; not divided.
--Myself the total crime.
TO'TAL, n. The whole; the whole sum or amount. These sums added, make the grand total of five millions.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: constituting the full quantity or extent; complete; "an entire town devastated by an earthquake"; "gave full attention"; "a total failure" [syn: entire, full, total]
2: complete in extent or degree and in every particular; "a full game"; "a total eclipse"; "a total disaster" [syn: full, total] n
1: the whole amount [syn: sum, total, totality, aggregate]
2: a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers [syn: sum, amount, total] v
1: add up in number or quantity; "The bills amounted to $2,000"; "The bill came to $2,000" [syn: total, number, add up, come, amount]
2: determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town" [syn: total, tot, tot up, sum, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add together, tally, add up]
3: damage beyond the point of repair; "My son totaled our new car"; "the rock star totals his guitar at every concert"

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin totalis, from Latin totus whole, entire Date: 14th century 1. comprising or constituting a whole ; entire <the total amount> 2. absolute, utter <a total failure> <a total stranger> 3. involving a complete and unified effort especially to achieve a desired effect <total war> <total theater> Synonyms: see whole II. noun Date: 1557 1. a product of addition ; sum 2. an entire quantity ; amount III. adverb Date: 1601 totally IV. transitive verb (totaled or totalled; totaling or totalling) Date: 1716 1. to add up ; compute 2. to amount to ; number 3. to make a total wreck of ; demolish; specifically to damage so badly that the cost of repairs exceeds the market value of the vehicle <totaled the car>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj., n., & v. --adj. 1 complete, comprising the whole (the total number of people). 2 absolute, unqualified (in total ignorance; total abstinence). --n. a total number or amount. --v. (totalled, totalling; US totaled, totaling) 1 tr. a amount in number to (they totalled 131). b find the total of (things, a set of figures, etc.). 2 intr. (foll. by to, up to) amount to, mount up to. 3 tr. US sl. wreck completely. Phrases and idioms: total abstinence abstaining completely from alcohol. total eclipse an eclipse in which the whole disc (of the sun, moon, etc.) is obscured. total internal reflection reflection without refraction of a light-ray meeting the interface between two media at more than a certain critical angle to the normal. total recall the ability to remember every detail of one's experience clearly. total war a war in which all available weapons and resources are employed. Derivatives: totally adv. Etymology: ME f. OF f. med.L totalis f. totus entire

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Total To"tal, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Totaledor Totalled; p. pr. & vb. n. Totaling or Totalling.] To bring to a total; to add; also, to reach as a total; to amount to. [Colloq.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Total To"tal, a. [F., fr. LL. totalis, fr. L. tolus all,whole. Cf. Factotum, Surtout, Teetotum.] Whole; not divided; entire; full; complete; absolute; as, a total departure from the evidence; a total loss. `` Total darkness.'' ``To undergo myself the total crime.'' --Milton. Total abstinence. See Abstinence, n., 1. Total depravity. (Theol.) See Original sin, under Original. Syn: Whole; entire; complete. See Whole.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Total To"tal, n. The whole; the whole sum or amount; as, these sums added make the grand total of five millions.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(totals, totalling, totalled) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. A total is the number that you get when you add several numbers together or when you count how many things there are in a group. The companies have a total of 1,776 employees. N-COUNT 2. The total number or cost of something is the number or cost that you get when you add together or count all the parts in it. The total cost of the project would be more than $240 million. ADJ: ADJ n 3. If there are a number of things in total, there are that number when you count or add them all together. I was with my husband for eight years in total... PHRASE: PHR after v, PHR with cl, amount PHR 4. If several numbers or things total a certain figure, that figure is the total of all the numbers or all the things. The unit's exports will total $85 million this year... VERB: V amount 5. When you total a set of numbers or objects, you add them all together. They haven't totalled the exact figures. VERB: V n 6. You can use total to emphasize that something is as great in extent, degree, or amount as it possibly can be. Why should we trust a total stranger?... = complete ADJ: usu ADJ n [emphasis] • totally Young people want something totally different from the old ways... = completely ADV: ADV adj/adv, ADV with v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. a. 1. Whole, complete, full, entire. 2. Integral, entire, undivided. II. n. Whole, totality, aggregate, gross, lump, mass, amount, sum, sum total, gross amount.

Moby Thesaurus

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