total
/ˈtoʊ.tl̩/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.21 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Left total: Such that for every x in X there is a y in Y with x R y.
adj
Such that any two elements are comparable, i.e. for all a and b, either a ≤ b, or b ≤ a.
Example Sentences
- "A total of £145 was raised by the bring-and-buy stall."
- "The total of 4, 5 and 6 is 15."
- "The total book is rubbish from start to finish. The total number of votes cast is 3,270."
- "Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either."
- "Each member brought a unique musical influence to the total sound."
- "Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month."
Etymology
From Middle English total, from Old French total, from Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus (“all, whole, entire”) + -ālis, the former element of unknown origin. Perhaps related to Oscan touto (“community, city-state”), Umbrian 𐌕𐌏𐌕𐌀𐌌 (totam, “tribe”, acc.), Old English þēod (“a nation, people, tribe”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂ (“people”). More at English Dutch, English thede.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈtoʊ.tl̩/
- British English: /ˈtəʊ.tl̩/
Usage
- Informal
- Transitive verb
- American usage
- Slang
- Intransitive verb
Inflected Forms
totals (plural)
totall (alternative)
more total (comparative)
most total (superlative)
totals (present, singular)
totaling (US, participle)
totalling (UK, participle)
totaled (US, participle)
totaled (US, past)
totalled (UK, participle)
totalled (UK, past)
Derived Forms
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