Sum vs Size - What's the difference?

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Sum is a related term of size.

As nouns the difference between sum and size

is that sum is noise (sound or signal generated by random fluctuations) while size is subject, topic.

sum

English

(wikipedia sum)

Etymology 1

(etyl) summe, from (etyl), from (etyl) summa, feminine of .

Noun

(en noun)

A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.

The sum of 3 and 4 is 7.

* Bible, Numbers i. 2

Take ye the sum of all the congregation.

(often plural) An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily limited to addition).

We're learning about division, and the sums are tricky.

* Charles Dickens

a large sheet of paper covered with long sums

A quantity of money.

a tidy sum

the sum of forty pounds

* Bible, Acts xxii. 28

With a great sum obtained I this freedom.

A summary; the principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the amount; the substance; compendium.

This is the sum of all the evidence in the case.

This is the sum and substance of his objections.

A central idea or point.

The utmost degree.

* Milton

Thus have I told thee all my state, and brought / My story to the sum of earthly bliss.

(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:

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 * quarter

Derived terms

* a tidy sum * checksum * empty sum * nullary sum

Verb

(summ)

To add together.

* 2005 , .

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.

To give a summary of.

Synonyms

* (to add together) add, add together, add up, sum up, summate, tally, tot, tot up, total, tote up * (to give a summary of) See summarize

Etymology 2

From the (etyl) , all of which have the core signification “pure”, used in elliptical reference to historical coins of pure gold.

Alternative forms

Noun

(en noun)

The basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan.

The basic unit of money in Uzbekistan.

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size

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) ).

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete, outside, dialects) An assize.

* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 560:

I know you would have women above the law, but it is all a lye; I heard his lordship say at size , that no one is above the law.

(obsolete) A regulation determining the amount of money paid in fees, taxes etc.

(obsolete) A fixed standard for the magnitude, quality, quantity etc. of goods, especially food and drink.

* Shakespeare

to scant my sizes

The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is.

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(obsolete) A regulation, piece of ordinance.

A specific set of dimensions for a manufactured article, especially clothing.

(graph theory) A number of edges in a graph.

(figurative, dated) Degree of rank, ability, character, etc.

* L'Estrange

men of a less size and quality

* Jonathan Swift

the middling or lower size of people

An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, used for measuring the size of pearls.

(Knight)

Synonyms

* See also

Verb

(siz)

To adjust the size of; to make a certain size.

* Francis Bacon

a statute to size weights, and measures

To classify or arrange by size.

# (military) To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.

# (mining) To sift (pieces of ore or metal) in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.

(colloquial) To approximate the dimensions, estimate the size of.

To take a greater size; to increase in size.

* John Donne

Our desires give them fashion, and so, / As they wax lesser, fall, as they size , grow.

(UK, Cambridge University, obsolete) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.

(obsolete) To swell; to increase the bulk of.

(Beaumont and Fletcher)

Etymology 2

Old Italian , a glue used by painters, shortened from (assisa), from (assiso), to make to sit, to seat, to place.

Noun

(en noun)

A thin, weak glue used as primer for paper or canvas intended to be painted upon.

Wallpaper paste.

The thickened crust on coagulated blood.

Any viscous substance, such as gilder's varnish.

Verb

(siz)

To apply glue or other primer to a surface which is to be painted.