Total vs Obvious - What's the difference?
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An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.
(informal, mathematics) Sum.
Entire; relating to the whole of something.
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*: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.
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, title= ((used as an intensifier)) Complete; absolute.
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To add up; to calculate the sum of.
To equal a total of; to amount to.
(transitive, US, slang) to demolish; to wreck completely. (from total loss)
To amount to; to add up to.
Easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
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Total is a related term of obvious.
As adjectives the difference between total and obvious
is that total is entire; relating to the whole of something while obvious is easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.As a noun total
is an amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.As a verb total
is to add up; to calculate the sum of.total
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Alternative forms
* totall (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- A total of £145 was raised by the bring-and-buy stall.
- 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 dividendSynonyms
* (sum) sumDerived terms
* subtotalAdjective
(en adjective)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.}}
Synonyms
* (entire) entire, full, whole * (complete) absolute, complete, utter; see alsoDerived terms
* total warVerb
- When we totalled the takings, we always got a different figure.
- That totals seven times so far.
- Honey, I’m OK, but I’ve totaled the car.
- It totals nearly a pound.
Synonyms
* (add up) add up, sum * (demolish) demolish, trash, wreckAnagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----obvious
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Adjective
(en adjective)Down towns, passage=It is not obvious , to economists anyway, that cities should exist at all. Crowds of people mean congestion and costly land and labour. But there are also well-known advantages to bunching up. When transport costs are sufficiently high a firm can spend more money shipping goods to clusters of consumers than it saves on cheap land and labour.}}