American English pronunciation
How to pronounce total
IPA transcription: ['toʊtəl]
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Noun
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a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
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the whole amount
Verb
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add up in number or quantity
“The bills amounted to $2,000”
“The bill came to $2,000”
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determine the sum of
“Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town”
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damage beyond the point of repair
“My son totaled our new car”
“the rock star totals his guitar at every concert”
Adjective
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constituting the full quantity or extent; complete
“an entire town devastated by an earthquake”
“gave full attention”
“a total failure”
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complete in extent or degree and in every particular
“a full game”
“a total eclipse”
“a total disaster”
Usage examples
- Throughout the Middle Ages, Argentan was either a rich place or totally burnt.
- The guy is totally insane.
- The total number of biblical references here is seven.
- It was first of his total of three asteroid discoveries.
- The word "net" in this sense means "total after all discounts.
- If a list of files is provided, both individual file and total statistics follow.
- Without understanding the actual physics, some animals exploit total internal reflection for catching fish.
- What was spoken was totally disregarded.
- I was either totally anxious or totally depressed.
- A total of fifteen tracks, excluding remixes, are listed.