All vs Sum - What's the difference?
All | sum | Synonyms |
(degree) (intensifier).
Apiece; each.
* 1878 , Gerard Manley Hopkins,
(degree) So much.
(dialect, Pennsylvania) All gone; dead.
(obsolete, poetic) even; just
* Spenser
* Gay
Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoting the class must be plural or uncountable).
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*:In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. In this way all respectable burgesses, down to fifty years ago, spent their evenings.
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, title= Throughout the whole of (a stated period of time; generally used with units of a day or longer).
: (= through the whole of the day and the whole of the night.)
: (= from the beginning of the year until now.)
Everyone.
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Everything.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=3
, passage=Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.}}
(lb) Any.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:without all remedy
Only; alone; nothing but.
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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:I was born to speak all mirth and no matter.
(with a possessive pronoun) Everything possible.
(countable) The totality of one's possessions.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, pp. 37-8:
(obsolete) although
* (rfdate) Spenser
A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.
* Bible, Numbers i. 2
(often plural) An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily limited to addition).
* Charles Dickens
A quantity of money.
* Bible, Acts xxii. 28
A summary; the principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the amount; the substance; compendium.
A central idea or point.
The utmost degree.
* Milton
(obsolete) An old English measure of corn equal to the quarter.
* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, page 207:
To add together.
* 2005 , .
To give a summary of.
All is a synonym of sum.
As an initialism All
is lek, currency used in albania.As a noun sum is
noise (sound or signal generated by random fluctuations).All
English
Adverb
(-)- You’ve got it all wrong.
- She was all , “Whatever.”
- The score was 30 all when the rain delay started.
- His locks like all a ravel-rope’s-end,
- With hempen strands in spray
- Don't want to go? All the better since I lost the tickets.
- The butter is all .
- All as his straying flock he fed.
- A damsel lay deploring / All on a rock reclined.
Synonyms
* completelyDeterminer
(en determiner)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path
Noun
- She gave her all , and collapsed at the finish line.
- she therefore ordered Jenny to pack up her alls and begone, for that she was determined she should not sleep that night within her walls.
Derived terms
* a bit of all right * after all * all about * all along * all-American * all and sundry * all-around * all around * all at once * All Blacks * all but * all clear * all-comers * all-day * all-embracing * all-encompassing * all fingers and thumbs * all-fire * All Fools' Day * all for * All Hallows * All Hallows' Day * all hands on deck * allheal * all-important * all in * all-in * all in all * all-in wrestling * all-inclusive * all-knowing * all-night * all-nighter * all of a sudden * all one * all one's life's worth * all or nothing * all-out * all over * all-over * all-overish * all over the place * all over with * all-party * all-powerful * all-purpose * all right * all-round * all-rounder * All Saints' Day * allseed * all-seeing * * allsorts * All Souls' Day * allspice * all square * all-star * all systems go * all that * all the best * all the more * all the same * all the way * all-time * all together * all told * all-too-familiar * all-up * all-up service * all up with * all very well * all-weather * and all * and all that * at all * be all ears * be-all and end-all * best of all * bugger all * catchall * coveralls * cure-all * for all * for good and all * fuck all * give one's all * go all the way * in all * know-it-all * most of all * naff all * not all there * not at all * on all fours * once and for all * overalls * sod all * when all is said and doneSee also
* any * each * every * everyone * everything * none * some *Conjunction
(English Conjunctions)- All they were wondrous loth.
sum
English
(wikipedia sum)Etymology 1
(etyl) summe, from (etyl), from (etyl) summa, feminine of .Noun
(en noun)- The sum of 3 and 4 is 7.
- Take ye the sum of all the congregation.
- We're learning about division, and the sums are tricky.
- a large sheet of paper covered with long sums
- a tidy sum
- the sum of forty pounds
- With a great sum obtained I this freedom.
- This is the sum of all the evidence in the case.
- This is the sum and substance of his objections.
- Thus have I told thee all my state, and brought / My story to the sum of earthly bliss.
- The sum is also used for the quarter, and the strike for the bushel.
Synonyms
* (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation) amount, sum total, summation, total, totality * (arithmetic computation) calculation, computation * (quantity of money) amount, quantity of money, sum of money * (summary) See summary * (central idea or point) center/centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nub, nitty-gritty, pith substance * (utmost degree) See summit * quarterDerived terms
* a tidy sum * checksum * empty sum * nullary sumSee also
* addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) + (summand) = (sum, total) * subtraction: (minuend) ? (subtrahend) = (difference) * multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product) * division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividendVerb
(summ)- when you say that stability and change are, it's because you're summing them up together as embraced by it, and taking note of the communion each of them has with being.
