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adjective
1.
Constituting the full quantity or extent; complete.  Synonyms: entire, full.  "Gave full attention" , "A total failure"
2.
Complete in extent or degree and in every particular.  Synonym: full.  "A total eclipse" , "A total disaster"
noun
1.
The whole amount.  Synonyms: aggregate, sum, totality.
2.
A quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers.  Synonyms: amount, sum.
verb
(past & past part. totaled or totalled; pres. part. totaling or totalling)
1.
Add up in number or quantity.  Synonyms: add up, amount, come, number.  "The bill came to $2,000"
2.
Determine the sum of.  Synonyms: add, add together, add up, sum, sum up, summate, tally, tot, tot up, tote up.
3.
Damage beyond the point of repair.  "The rock star totals his guitar at every concert"



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"Total" Quotes from Famous Books



... the present appropriation of tithe-composition, a tribute is levied from the whole nation for the uses of the church of only the one-tenth portion of the community, the people of Ireland are, therefore, justified in demanding the total extinction of an assessment so applied. That no settlement of the tithe question can give satisfaction to the people of Ireland which is not founded on the foregoing principle. That the people of Ireland be called upon not to desist ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan

... of a tide is the height between high water of that tide and the mean low water level of spring tides. It follows, therefore, that for spring tides the range and rise are synonymous terms, but at neap tides the range is the total height between high and low water, while the rise is the difference between high water of the neap tide and the mean low water level of spring tides. Neither the total time occupied by the flood and ebb tides nor the rate of the rise and fall are ...
— The Sewerage of Sea Coast Towns • Henry C. Adams

... the Indians, who entirely surrounded them. The firing again began at daylight of the 26th, and lasted all day, and as the Indians had command of some high points near by, there were many casualties. Reno's total loss, as given by Godfrey, was fifty killed, including three officers, and fifty-nine wounded. Many of those left in the river bottom when the retreat began, eventually reached the command again, escaping under cover ...
— My Native Land • James Cox

... young scamp's weakness inspires in his wife, a young woman of thoroughly feminine loftiness of character, is dramatic indeed, and partakes of the nature of that which so frequently is occasioned by the nervous organism of women, a 'scene.' The total lack of large-hearted and intelligent 'understanding' of human nature displayed by the conduct of the young man would send any connubial craft ...
— Walking-Stick Papers • Robert Cortes Holliday

... to Toplicza. The forester and the Wallack thought themselves amply compensated by a few paper florins. I daresay they kept off the rheumatism by extra potations of slivovitz. As for myself, having been dipped, yea, having even undergone total immersion in the morass, I felt like those extinct animals who have left their interesting bones nice and dry in the blue lias, but who in daily life must have been "mud all over." I presented such ...
— Round About the Carpathians • Andrew F. Crosse


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