total

[to·tal]

There are many meanings of total, but they all have something to do with completeness. A total is a whole or complete amount, and "to total" is to add numbers or to destroy something.

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Whole; not divided; entire; full; complete; absolute; as, a total departure from the evidence; a total loss.

Noun
the whole amount

Noun
a quantity obtained by addition

Verb
determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town"

Verb
add up in number or quantity; "The bills amounted to $2,000"; "The bill came to $2,000"

Adjective S.
constituting the full quantity or extent; complete; "an entire town devastated by an earthquake"; "gave full attention"; "a total failure"

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Adjective S.
complete in extent or degree and in every particular; "a full game"; "a total eclipse"; "a total disaster"

Adjective S.
without conditions or limitations; "a total ban"

Adjective S.
including everything; "the overall cost"; "the total amount owed"


a.
Whole; not divided; entire; full; complete; absolute; as, a total departure from the evidence; a total loss.

n.
The whole; the whole sum or amount; as, these sums added make the grand total of five millions.


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. Whole; entire; complete. See Whole.

Total

To"tal, n. The whole; the whole sum or amount; as, these sums added make the grand total of five millions.

Whole; not divided; entire; full; complete; absolute; as, a total departure from the evidence; a total loss.

The whole; the whole sum or amount; as, these sums added make the grand total of five millions.

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Usage Examples

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

Consider the perverse effect cap and trade has on altruistic actions. Say you decide to buy a small, high-efficiency car. That reduces your emissions, but not your country's. Instead it allows somebody else to buy a bigger S.U.V. - because the total emissions are set by the cap.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States?

A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages.

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