to add / to sum
verb/su.ˈmaɾ/high
so·mar
Definitions
1To combine two or more numbers or amounts to calculate their total value.
Please add these figures for me.
If you add ten and fifteen, you get twenty-five.
Common collocations
to sum upto add numbersto add together
Idiomatic expressions
- to add two and two together (to understand something obvious)
2To accumulate or amount to a particular total.
The evidence adds up to a clear case of fraud.
His experience adds up to over twenty years in the field.
Common collocations
to add up toto amount to
Etymology
Do latim 'summare', de 'summa' (soma, total).