sum
Từ điển Collocation
sum noun
1 amount of money
ADJ. considerable, generous, good, handsome, hefty, high, large, not inconsiderable, princely (ironic), significant, substantial, tidy (informal) It seemed an absurdly high sum to pay for a coat. For his first book he received the princely sum of $400. The team has raised substantial sums for local charities. | astronomical, colossal, enormous, exorbitant, huge, magnificent, massive, record, staggering, vast £200 was an astronomical sum of money in 1547. He joined the club two years ago for a record sum. | five-figure, six-figure, etc. | small, modest, nominal, reasonable, token, trifling The charity pays a nominal sum to lease the premises. | derisory, paltry | average | net | round $10,000 is a good round sum. | full, overall, total | agreed, fixed | undisclosed, unspecified | annual, monthly, etc. | regular | guaranteed | capital, cash, lump My wife would receive a guaranteed lump sum in the event of my death. | tax-free
VERB + SUM borrow, earn, fetch, raise, recover Some of the paintings should fetch a tidy sum at today's auction. You will have to go to court to recover these sums. | get, receive | award sb, contribute, give sb, grant sb, lend sb, offer sb, pay (sb), repay The judge awarded them an undisclosed six-figure sum in damages. | invest, spend | cost a project that cost vast sums of public money | charge (sb), fine sb | agree (on) We eventually agreed a sum and I gave him a cheque.
SUM + VERB be due, be payable The landlord has the right to recover any sums payable under this lease | be equal/equivalent to sth The gangsters offered him a sum equivalent to a whole year's earnings. | exceed sth
PHRASES a sum of money
2 calculation
ADJ. difficult, easy
VERB + SUM do, find the answer to I did a quick sum to work out how much it would cost.
PHRASES get your sums right/wrong The company got its sums wrong when estimating how many customers it would attract.
3 amount got by adding numbers
VERB + SUM calculate, find, work out Calculate the sum of the following figures.
PREP. ~ of The sum of two and five is seven.
Từ điển WordNet
n.
- a quantity of money; sum of money, amount, amount of money
he borrowed a large sum
the amount he had in cash was insufficient
- a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers; amount, total
- the final aggregate; summation, sum total
the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; kernel, substance, core, center, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, nitty-gritty
the gist of the prosecutor's argument
the heart and soul of the Republican Party
the nub of the story
- the whole amount; total, totality, aggregate
- the basic unit of money in Uzbekistan
- a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets; union, join
let C be the union of the sets A and B
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SciLab CAPE-OPEN Unit Operation Unit-operation Model (AmsterCHEM)
English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary
sums|summed|summing
syn.: amount entirety quantity total whole
ant.: part
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