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all | total |

As nouns the difference between all and total

is that all is everything possible while total is an amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.

As an adverb all

is intensifier.

As a determiner all

is every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoting the class must be plural or uncountable).

As a conjunction all

is although.

As an initialism ALL

is initialism of lang=en.

As an adjective total is

entire; relating to the whole of something.

As a verb total is

to add up; to calculate the sum of.

all

English

Adverb

(-)
  • (degree) (intensifier).
    • You’ve got it all wrong.
    She was all , “Whatever.”
  • Apiece; each.
    • The score was 30 all when the rain delay started.
  • * 1878 , Gerard Manley Hopkins,
    • His locks like all a ravel-rope’s-end,
    With hempen strands in spray
  • (degree) So much.
    • Don't want to go? All the better since I lost the tickets.
  • (dialect, Pennsylvania) All gone; dead.
    • The butter is all .
  • (obsolete, poetic) even; just
  • * Spenser
    • All as his straying flock he fed.
  • * Gay
    • A damsel lay deploring / All on a rock reclined.

    Synonyms

    * completely

    Determiner

    (en determiner)
  • Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoting the class must be plural or uncountable).
  • :
  • *
  • *: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.
  • *, chapter=1
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path
  • 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.
  • :
  • Everything.
  • :
  • *
    • , 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.
  • :
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:I was born to speak all mirth and no matter.

    • Noun

  • (with a possessive pronoun) Everything possible.
    • She gave her all , and collapsed at the finish line.
  • (countable) The totality of one's possessions.
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, pp. 37-8:
    • 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 done

    Related terms

    * albeit * almighty * almost * already * alright * also * although * altogether * always

    See also

    * any * each * every * everyone * everything * none * some *

    Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • (obsolete) although
  • * (rfdate) Spenser
    • All they were wondrous loth.

    Statistics

    * 100 English basic words English degree adverbs English indefinite pronouns English plural pronouns English pronouns 1000 English basic words ----

    total

    English

    Alternative forms

    * totall (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.
    • A total of £145 was raised by the bring-and-buy stall.
  • (informal, mathematics) Sum.
    • The total of 4, 5 and 6 is 15.

    See 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 dividend

    Synonyms

    * (sum) sum

    Derived terms

    * subtotal

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Entire; relating to the whole of something.
  • :
  • *
  • *:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
  • ((used as an intensifier)) Complete; absolute.
  • :

    • Synonyms

    * (entire) entire, full, whole * (complete) absolute, complete, utter; see also

    Derived terms

    * total war

    Verb

  • To add up; to calculate the sum of.
    • When we totalled the takings, we always got a different figure.
  • To equal a total of; to amount to.
    • That totals seven times so far.
  • (transitive, US, slang) to demolish; to wreck completely. (from total loss)
    • Honey, I’m OK, but I’ve totaled the car.
  • To amount to; to add up to.
    • It totals nearly a pound.

    Synonyms

    * (add up) add up, sum * (demolish) demolish, trash, wreck

    Anagrams

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