| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A condensation of the essential or main points of something: recapitulation, rundown, run-through, summary, summation, summing-up, wrap-up. Informal : recap. See WORDS. 2. An organized array of individual elements and parts forming and working as a unit: entity, integral, system, totality, whole. See PART. 3. A number or quantity obtained as a result of addition: aggregate, amount, summation, sum total, total, totality. Archaic : tale. See COUNT. 4. An amount or quantity from which nothing is left out or held back: aggregate, all, entirety, everything, gross, total, totality, whole. Informal : work (used in plural). Idioms: everything but (or except) the kitchen sink, lock, stock, and barrel, the whole ball of wax (or kit and caboodle) (or megillah) (or nine yards) (or shebang) . See PART. | | VERB: | To combine (figures) to form a sum. Also used with up: add (up), cast, foot (up), tot2 (up), total, totalize. See INCREASE. | | PHRASAL VERB: | sum up To give a recapitulation of the salient facts of: abstract, epitomize, go over, recapitulate, review, run down, run through, summarize, synopsize, wrap up. Informal : recap. See THOUGHTS.
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