Total : adj 1: constituting the full quantity or extent; complete; "an
entire town devastated by an earthquake"; "gave full
attention"; "a total failure" [syn: entire, full]
2: including everything; "the overall cost"; "the total amount
owed" [syn: overall]
3: without conditions or limitations; "a total ban" [syn: absolute,
unconditioned]
4: complete in extent or degree and in every particular; "a
full game"; "a total eclipse"; "a total disaster" [syn: full]
n 1: the whole amount [syn: sum, totality, aggregate]
2: a quantity obtained by addition [syn: sum, amount]
v 1: add up in number or quantity; "The bills amounted to
$2,000"; "The bill came to $2,000" [syn: number, add
up, come, amount]
2: determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to
those of the neighboring town" [syn: tot, tot up, sum,
sum up, summate, tote up, add, add together, tally,
add up]
Total : \To"tal\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Totaledor Totalled; p.
pr. & vb. n. Totaling or Totalling.]
To bring to a total; to add; also, to reach as a total; to
amount to. [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Total : \To"tal\, a. [F., fr. LL. totalis, fr. L. tolus all,whole.
Cf. Factotum, Surtout, Teetotum.]
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.'' --Milton.
Total abstinence. See Abstinence, n., 1.
Total depravity. (Theol.) See Original sin, under
Original.
Syn: Whole; entire; complete. See Whole.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Total : \To"tal\, n.
The whole; the whole sum or amount; as, these sums added make
the grand total of five millions.
From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
TOTAL. Complete; containing the whole; as theTotal : amount of an account is
all the items of such account added together; total incapacity, is an
absolute and complete incapacity to do a thing. A married woman is totally
incapable to make a contract, because, although having intelligence, she has
not legal capacity and an idiot is totally incapable to enter into a
contract, because he has no will.