Sum \Sum\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Summed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Summing}.] [Cf. F. sommer, LL. summare.] 1. To bring together into one whole; to collect into one amount; to cast up, as a column of figures; to ascertain the totality of; -- usually with up.
The mind doth value every moment, and then the hour doth rather sum up the moments, than divide the day. --Bacon.
2. To bring or collect into a small compass; to comprise in a few words; to condense; -- usually with up.
``Go to the ant, thou sluggard,'' in few words sums up the moral of this fable. --L'Estrange.
He sums their virtues in himself alone. --Dryden.
3. (Falconry) To have (the feathers) full grown; to furnish with complete, or full-grown, plumage.
But feathered soon and fledge They summed their pens [wings]. --Milton.
{Summing up}, a compendium or abridgment; a recapitulation; a r['e]sum['e]; a summary.
Syn: To cast up; collect; comprise; condense; comprehend; compute.
Sum \Sum\, n. [OE. summe, somme, OF. sume, some, F. somme, L. summa, fr. summus highest, a superlative from sub under. See {Sub-}, and cf. {Supreme}.] 1. The aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars; the amount or whole of any number of individuals or particulars added together; as, the sum of 5 and 7 is 12.
Take ye the sum of all the congregation. --Num. i. 2.
Note: Sum is now commonly applied to an aggregate of numbers, and number to an aggregate of persons or things.
2. A quantity of money or currency; any amount, indefinitely; as, a sum of money; a small sum, or a large sum. ``The sum of forty pound.'' --Chaucer.
With a great sum obtained I this freedom. --Acts xxii. 28.
3. The principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the amount; the substance; compendium; as, this is the sum of all the evidence in the case; this is the sum and substance of his objections.
4. Height; completion; utmost degree.
Thus have I told thee all my state, and brought My story to the sum of earthly bliss. --Milton.
5. (Arith.) A problem to be solved, or an example to be wrought out. --Macaulay.
A sum in arithmetic wherein a flaw discovered at a particular point is ipso facto fatal to the whole. --Gladstone.
A large sheet of paper . . . covered with long sums. --Dickens.
{Algebraic sum}, as distinguished from arithmetical sum, the aggregate of two or more numbers or quantities taken with regard to their signs, as + or -, according to the rules of addition in algebra; thus, the algebraic sum of -2, 8, and -1 is 5.
{In sum}, in short; in brief. [Obs.] ``In sum, the gospel . . . prescribes every virtue to our conduct, and forbids every sin.'' --Rogers.
In sum, the law might have shot itself in the foot, but it deserves to be shot in the head, along with Mr. Carson's proposal.
RJR Nabisco Inc., Atlanta, said it agreed to sell its Dromedary food operations to Burns, Philp & Co. of Australia for a sum that wasn't disclosed.
For a paper deal worth a mere Pounds 105m, ADT now claims to have written off as goodwill the sum of Dollars 278m.
In the case of HDTV, $10 million remains in the Senate bill, and an equal sum has been set aside for a related advanced technology program funded in a pending Commerce Department appropriations bill.
By the end of the voyage he had accumulated Dollars 500, a considerable sum in those days. Eisenberg joined his parents in Shanghai where his father had established himself as a vegetable oil seller. The young Eisenberg then ventured to Japan.
But the smaller sum would leave the doctor more after taxes: about $31,000 a year over 20 years, compared with $25,000 a year from the pension plan.
In 1989, Petronas had to make another MDollars 982m cash injection after loan losses on the Malaysian property market. In early 1991, Petronas sold Bank Bumiputra to the Finance Ministry for an undisclosed sum.
A taxpayer gives a lump sum to a college, religious group or other nonprofit organization, takes a tax deduction for a substantial portion of the amount and receives monthly or quarterly payments, typically for life.
Ryan purchased the bank from PJD Bancshares, a group of investors in the El Campo and Louise area in Brazoria County, for an undisclosed sum.
It may seem minor to some people, but it's major enough for me." If any phrase could sum up the career of Richard Rodgers, it is a lyric from "No Strings," the only musical for which he wrote both words and music.
Most of the personal pension plans taken out recently are also unitised. Under a unitised with profits policy, the investor buys units, on which bonuses are added each year rather than, as with a conventional with profits policy, to the sum assured.
In some cases, the sum might not be rounded to the nearest one-eighth percent.
Interest has boosted the sum to $300 million.
In its second rescue of a troubled Texas retailer, an Australian property and retail company has signed a letter of intent to buy the Frost Bros. chain for an undisclosed sum.
As reported in this newspaper, the payment was questioned by the Boesky partnership's auditors after Mr. Boesky didn't produce documentation for the sum.
Between 1981 and 1986, any worker could put $2,000 a year into an IRA and deduct that sum from his taxable income.
By paying the merit raise as a lump sum, GM would be applying to salaried workers the changes it negotiated with hourly workers in 1984.
Plater said officials have so far identified 11 accounts in excess of $100,000, the maximum sum insured by the federal government.
Fenchurch's management will acquire the business for an initial payment of #30.5 million ($47.3 million), with #30 million of that sum in cash and the remainder in an interest-free unsecured note.
He will become responsible from April for paying subsidies, but they will no longer be paid in an annual lump sum.
But some environmentalists question whether even those fines _ some as low as $2,000 _ are enough, noting the maximum allowed is $25,000 per violation, a sum that in some cases could mean millions of dollars in fines against a city.
A federal jury in Las Vegas awarded a record $22.3 to Newton in 1986, but a judge reduced it to $5.3 million and last month ordered him to accept the lower sum or face proving his case again in a new trial, this time in Los Angeles.
Unemployment has now risen by a hair short of a million since the recession began, similar in sum to the last recession but at a faster pace in its early stages. Why was the rise in unemployment unusually rapid early on?
Not mentioned was the fact that Thomas could only afford to leave the company, and so make the revelations, because he had just won a six-figure sum on the football pools.
This sum, equivalent to 80 times Brazil's minimum salary, is well below the current wages of many state employees who have become popularly known in recent months as "maharajas" because of their huge salaries.
These last year earned just over Dollars 2bn - a sum which, despite being 20 per cent down on 1991 as a result of softer world crude prices, was nevertheless Egypt's second biggest source of hard currency after tourism.
TRAFALGAR HOUSE has sold a golf resort and land in the Algarve, Portugal to Thompson Investments (London) for an undisclosed sum.
The sum included $2.7 million the government had paid for the land plus expenditures for education, food and other provisions.
The money is invested in gilts (see G for Gilts) to ensure that there is no risk with the repayments. The life office will not pay you any more than the fixed sum, unless you buy a specialised contract, and all payments cease when you die.
Although the availability of human labour hardly increased, the sum of earned incomes in general terms grew just as quickly as gross domestic product and investment earnings. This will change in future.