Definition of "sum"

sum¹

/sʌm/

noun
plural sums
1. A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.
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  Take yee the ſumme of all the Congregation of the children of Iſrael, […]
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Numbers 1:2, columns 1–2
2. (often plural) An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily limited to addition).
  Quotations
  […] a large sheet of paper […] covered with long sums […]
  1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, “The Emigrants”, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, page 572
3. A quantity of money.
  Quotations
  […] With a great ſumme obteined I this freedome.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Acts 22:28, column 1
  Merchant Opold: This one promised compensation for services rendered. It humbly suggests that a sum of 250 credits would be most appropriate.Shepard: Would you have had any chance of getting this past customs without me? You can be a bit more generous.Merchant Opold: The other's words possess the discomforting ring of truth.Merchant Opold: This one could raise the sum to 500 credits. That is half this one's profit taken by the other. It can offer no more.
  2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Noveria
4. A summary; the principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the amount; the substance; compendium.
5. A central idea or point; gist.
6. The utmost degree.
  Quotations
  Thus I have told thee all my State, and brought / My Storie to the ſum of earthly bliſs […]
  1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, lines 1158–1159
7. (obsolete) An old English measure of corn equal to the quarter.
  Quotations
  The sum is also used for the quarter, and the strike for the bushel.
  1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 207
verb
third-person singular simple present sums, present participle summing, simple past and past participle summed
1. (transitive) To add together.
  Quotations
  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.
  2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 250b
2. (transitive) To give a summary of.

sum²

/sʌm/

noun
plural sums
1. The basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan.
2. The basic unit of money in Uzbekistan.

sum³

/sʌm/

pronoun
1. (African-American Vernacular, Internet slang, text messaging) Eye dialect spelling of some.
determiner
1. (African-American Vernacular, Internet slang, text messaging) Eye dialect spelling of some.

sum⁴

/sʌm/

noun
plural sums
1. 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.

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