total

The amount you get when you add several amounts together.

• The total is twenty euros.
• Add these prices and check the total.
• A total of twelve people came to dinner.

How to use it: a total of + amount (We collected a total of fifty dollars.)

Similar words: sum

Common phrases: a total of, the grand total, in total, the total of

Complete, with nothing missing or left out; often used to make a description stronger.

• The room fell into total silence.
• Our first attempt was a total disaster.
• She was a total stranger when we met.

Similar words: complete, absolute, utter

Opposites: partial

Common phrases: total silence, a total disaster, total control

Including every part of something or all the amounts together.

• What is the total cost?
• The total distance was fifteen kilometers.
• Our total income increased last year.

Similar words: overall, whole, entire

Opposites: partial

Common phrases: total cost, total number, total population

A function gives a result for every possible input in its allowed set.

• This function is total.
• A total function accepts every input in its domain.
• We proved that the mapping was total.

Opposites: partial

Common phrases: total function, total computable function, total mapping

To add up to a particular number or amount.

• The costs total fifty dollars.
• Our sales totaled two million euros last year.
• Payments now total more than the original price.

How to use it: total + amount (The repairs total six hundred euros.)

Similar words: amount to, come to, add up to

Common phrases: total ten dollars, total nearly something, total more than

To add several numbers or amounts together to find their sum.

• Please total these numbers.
• I totaled the receipts after dinner.
• Can you total up our travel costs?

How to use it: total something up (Please total the expenses up before lunch.)

Similar words: add up, sum

Common phrases: total the costs, total the figures, total something up

To damage a vehicle so badly that repairing it is impossible or costs too much.

• He totaled his car.
• The truck was totaled in the crash.
• Did the accident total your new van?

Similar words: wreck, destroy, write off

Common phrases: total a car, total the truck, total someone's vehicle