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adjective

Total adj. Whole; not divided; entire; full; complete; absolute; as, a total departure from the evidence; a total loss. " Total darkness." "To undergo myself the total crime."

Total abstinence. See Abstinence, n., 1.

Total depravity. (Theol.) See Original sin, under Original.

Synonyms: Whole; entire; complete. See Whole.

noun

Total n. The whole; the whole sum or amount; as, these sums added make the grand total of five millions.

verb

Total v. t. (past & past part. totaled or totalled; pres. part. totaling or totalling)

To bring to a total; also, to reach as a total; to amount to. (Colloq.)

To determine the total of (a set of numbers); to add; often used with up; as, to total up the bill.

To damage beyond repair; used especially of vehicles damaged in an accident; as, he skid on an ice patch and totaled his Mercedes against a tree. From total loss. (colloq.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Total" Quotes from Famous Books

... men may live and thrive, for a time at least, on amounts of proteid per day equal to only one-half and one-quarter the amount called for in the Voit standard (see p. 32), even without unduly increasing the total calories of the food intake. Such investigations, however, have always called forth critical comment from writers reluctant to depart from the current standards, as extending over too short periods ...

— The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition • A. W. Duncan

... seemed almost impossible for him to fix his attention upon any thing. This neglect of the interests of his employer was so apparent, that he was dismissed from his place at the end of a few months. This increased the morbid despondency under which he was labouring, and led to an almost total abandonment of himself. In less than a year, he was travelling swiftly along the ...

— Words for the Wise • T. S. Arthur

... other people do the same. For her part, she did not see why they were struggling so hard, anyway. Why needn't they go ahead and sing their duet like two solos if they wanted to? As if a little thing like that could make a feather's weight of difference in the grand total of to-morrow night's wretchedness when the final curtain should have been rung ...

— Miss Billy's Decision • Eleanor H. Porter

... eyes. Her complexion was rough, her nose large and thick. Her mouth was large also, but, when unaffected by her now almost habitual antagonism, the curve of her lip was sweet, and occasionally humorous. Her chin was strong, and the total of her face what we call masculine; but when she silently regarded her child, it grew beautiful with ...

— There & Back • George MacDonald

... terroristic organization impudently pretended to represent the "true Russian people"; but in the election for the third Duma, when it had all the encouragement and help that the bureaucracy could give, it was able to send to the electoral colleges only 72 electors out of a total number of 5,160. It was composed mainly of the worst elements of the population, and derived all the power that it had from the support given to it by the bureaucracy and the police. Without such support it would have been stamped out of existence in a week by the liberals, revolutionists, ...

— McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 • Various

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