| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | to·tal |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  t t l |
| NOUN: | 1. An amount obtained by addition; a sum. 2. A whole quantity; an entirety. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Of, relating to, or constituting the whole; entire. See synonyms at whole. 2. Complete; utter; absolute: total concentration; a total effort; a total fool. | | VERB: | Inflected forms: to·taled or to·talled, to·tal·ing or to·tal·ling, to·tals or to·tals
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To determine the total of; add up. 2. To equal a total of; amount to. 3. To wreck completely; demolish: survived the crash but totaled the car. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To add up; amount: It totals to three dollars. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, whole, from Old French, from Medieval Latin tt lis, from Latin ttus. See teut- in Appendix I.
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