4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Total \To"tal\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Totaled}or {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.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Total \To"tal\, n.
The whole; the whole sum or amount; as, these sums added make
the grand total of five millions.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
total
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}]
2: including everything; "the overall cost"; "the total amount
owed" [syn: {overall}]
3: without conditions or limitations; "a total ban" [syn: {absolute},
{unconditioned}]
4: complete in extent or degree and in every particular; "a
full game"; "a total eclipse"; "a total disaster" [syn: {full}]
n 1: the whole amount [syn: {sum}, {totality}, {aggregate}]
2: a quantity obtained by addition [syn: {sum}, {amount}]
v 1: add up in number or quantity; "The bills amounted to
$2,000"; "The bill came to $2,000" [syn: {number}, {add
up}, {come}, {amount}]
2: determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to
those of the neighboring town" [syn: {tot}, {tot up}, {sum},
{sum up}, {summate}, {tote up}, {add}, {add together}, {tally},
{add up}]
[also: {totalling}, {totalled}]