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Sum

det, name, noun, pron, verb

Definitions

Determiner
  1. 1
    Eye dialect spelling of some. Internet, alt-of, pronunciation-spelling

    "Females can smell when they nigga doing sum sneaky shit 😂"

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.

    "The sum of 3 and 4 is 7."

  2. 2
    The basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan.
  3. 3
    A type of administrative district used in China, Mongolia, and Russia. In Mongolia, a sum is smaller than a province. In China, it is only used in Inner Mongolia, where it is equivalent to a township.
  4. 4
    the whole amount wordnet
  5. 5
    An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily limited to addition). often, plural

    "We're learning about division, and the sums are tricky."

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  1. 6
    The basic unit of money in Uzbekistan.
  2. 7
    a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers wordnet
  3. 8
    A quantity of money.

    "a tidy sum"

  4. 9
    the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience wordnet
  5. 10
    A summary; the principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the substance.

    "This is the sum of all the evidence in the case."

  6. 11
    the final aggregate wordnet
  7. 12
    A central idea or point; gist.
  8. 13
    a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets wordnet
  9. 14
    The utmost degree; the greatest or most perfect realization (of some concept). literary, rare

    "Thus I have told thee all my State, and brought / My Storie to the ſum of earthly bliſs[…]"

  10. 15
    a quantity of money wordnet
  11. 16
    An old English measure of corn equal to the quarter. obsolete

    "The sum is also used for the quarter, and the strike for the bushel."

Pronoun
  1. 1
    Pronunciation spelling of something. Internet, alt-of, pronunciation-spelling

    "Tony hawk such a fire name bro was bound to do sum cool"

Verb
  1. 1
    To add together. transitive

    "when you say that stability and change are, it's because you're summing them up together as embraced by it, and taking note of the communion each of them has with being."

  2. 2
    determine the sum of wordnet
  3. 3
    To give a summary of. transitive
  4. 4
    be a summary of wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English summe, from Old French summe, from Latin summa (“highest point; sum”), from summus (“highest”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English summe, from Old French summe, from Latin summa (“highest point; sum”), from summus (“highest”).

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Kazakh сом (som), Kyrgyz сом (som), Uyghur سوم (som), and Uzbek soʻm, all of which have the core signification “pure”, used in elliptical reference to historical coins of pure gold.

Etymology 4

From Mongolian сум (sum), from Manchu ᠨᡳᡵᡠ (niru, “a large arrow, militia company, district”). Ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *sumun (“arrow”).

Etymology 5

* As a Chinese surname: ** a pronunciation of 沈, see Shen. ** Also Romanized from 岑 (cén) based on the Cantonese pronunciation, see Cen. ** Variant Romanization of 覃, see Tan, Qin. * As a Cambodian/Khmer surname, from the name ស៊ុំ (sum), possibly from the Chinese above. * As a Slovene and Czech surname Šum, from šum (“noise”) or šum (“waterfall”), compare Shum. * As a Jewish surname, from Polish sum (“catfish”).

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