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  • 11sum up something — sum up (something) to give a brief but complete statement. The last paragraph should sum up the main points of your argument. He s a small man with a big ego that about sums him up. To sum up, Eleanor has promised to revise the designs, and… …

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  • 12sum up — (something) to give a brief but complete statement. The last paragraph should sum up the main points of your argument. He s a small man with a big ego that about sums him up. To sum up, Eleanor has promised to revise the designs, and Bernard will …

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  • 13Small Isles —    SMALL ISLES, a parish, partly in the county of Inverness, but chiefly in the district of Mull, county of Argyll; containing the island of Eigg in the former, and the islands of Canna, Muck, and Rum in the latter, county; and having 993… …

    A Topographical dictionary of Scotland

  • 14sum|mer|wood — «SUHM uhr WUD», noun. a dark ring or layer of wood formed around a tree each summer, composed of relatively small, compact cells with thick walls; latewood …

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  • 15sum — ▪ I. sum sum 1 [sʌm] noun [countable] 1. an amount of money: • Large sums of money are spent on advertising campaigns. • The company was sold for a sum estimated at $2.3 billion. ˌcapital ˈsum 1 …

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  • 16sum — sum1 W2S3 [sʌm] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(money)¦ 2 the sum of something 3 greater/more/better etc than the sum of its parts 4¦(calculation)¦ 5 do your sums 6 in sum ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: summe, from Latin s …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 17Small set (combinatorics) — In combinatorial mathematics, a small set of positive integers:S = {s 0,s 1,s 2,s 3,dots}is one such that the infinite sum:frac{1}{s 0}+frac{1}{s 1}+frac{1}{s 2}+frac{1}{s 3}+cdots converges. A large set is any other set of positive integers (i.e …

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  • 18sum — [[t]sʌm[/t]] n. v. summed, sum•ming 1) math. the aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars as determined by or as if by the mathematical process of addition: The sum of 6 and 8 is 14[/ex] 2) an amount or quantity,… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 19sum — sumless, adj. sumlessness, n. /sum/, n., v., summed, summing. n. 1. the aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars as determined by or as if by the mathematical process of addition: The sum of 6 and 8 is 14. 2. a… …

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  • 20sum — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 amount of money ADJECTIVE ▪ considerable, generous, good, great, handsome, hefty, high, large, not inconsiderable (esp. BrE) …

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