Definitions for add up
add up

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. come, add up, amountverb

   develop into

   "This idea will never amount to anything"; "nothing came of his grandiose plans"

2. total, tot, tot up, sum, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add together, tally, add upverb

   determine the sum of

   "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town"

3. total, number, add up, come, amountverb

   add up in number or quantity

   "The bills amounted to $2,000"; "The bill came to $2,000"

4. make sense, add upverb

   be reasonable or logical or comprehensible

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. add upverb

   To take a sum.

2. add upverb

   To accumulate; to amount to.

3. add upverb

   To make sense; to be reasonable or consistent.

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1. • Be
   • Become
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How to pronounce add up?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

   South African

How to say add up in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of add up in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of add up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of add up in a Sentence

1. Chris Wallace:

   I talked to a former top national security official in an earlier Republican administration who says this just doesn't add up, the timeline for when he learned information and when he decided to act doesn't make a lot of sense.

2. Mother Teresa:

   I never add up. I only subtract from the total dying... . . . It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

3. Kellan Baker:

   Health disparities like poverty feed off established social and economic structures that determine the distribution of power and resources. What’s worse, inequality turns diversity into disparity. For someone who belongs to multiple communities that experience health disparities, these disparities do not simply add up: They multiply.

4. Derrick Hatami:

   If you add up all of the sales objectives of all the different nameplates, it's probably twice as big as the segment itself.

5. Chelsea Clinton:

   There is no way that can be paid for without raising taxes on the middle class, the arithmetic just doesn't add up.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=add up
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Add_Up