different between amass vs total

English

Etymology

From Middle English *amassen (found only as Middle English massen (“to amass”)), from Anglo-Norman amasser, from Medieval Latin amass?re, from ad + massa (“lump, mass”). See mass.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /??mæs/

Verb

amass (third-person singular simple present amasses, present participle amassing, simple past and past participle amassed)

1. (transitive) To collect into a mass or heap.
2. (transitive) to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate.
   • 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, Part II, Chapter V, page 123:

     […] he reluctantly returned to the old Nevada mines, there to recruit his health and to amass money enough to allow him to pursue his object without privation.

Synonyms

• (collect into a mass): heap up, mound, pile, pile up, stack up; see also Thesaurus:pile up
• (gather a great quantity of): accumulate, amound, collect, gather, hoard; see also Thesaurus:amass

Derived terms

• amasser
• amassment

Translations

Noun

amass (plural amasses)

1. (obsolete) A large number of things collected or piled together.

   Synonyms: mass, heap, pile

   • 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, London, p. 38,^[1]

     […] this Pillar [the Compounded Order] is nothing in effect, but a Medlie, or an Amasse of all the precedent Ornaments, making a new kinde, by stealth, and though the most richly tricked, yet the poorest in this, that he is a borrower of all his Beautie.

   • 1788, Thomas Pownall, Notices and Descriptions of Antiquities of the Provincia Romana of Gaul, London: John Nichols, p. 22,^[2]

     […] others are drawn, not as portraits, not strict copies of these most essential characteristic parts, but filled up afterwards from memory, and a general idea of an amass of arms, without the specific one of a trophæal amass, which is the fact of these bas-relieves.

2. (obsolete) The act of amassing.
   • 1591, William Garrard, The Arte of Warre, London: Roger Warde, Book 6, p. 339,^[3]

     He [the general] must neuer permit the Captaines to depart from the place, where he made the Amasse and collection of the Companies, with their bands out of order or disseuered, although they should depart to some place neere adioyning, vnlesse he were forced by some occasion of great necessity and importance:

Anagrams

• Assam, Massa, Samas, massa, msasa

English

Alternative forms

• totall (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English total, from Old French total, from Medieval Latin t?t?lis, from t?tus (“all, whole, entire”), of unknown origin. Perhaps related to Oscan ???????????????????? (touto, “community, city-state”), Umbrian ???????????????????? (totam, “tribe”, acc.), Old English þ?od (“a nation, people, tribe”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh? (“people”). More at English Dutch, English thede.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??.t?l/
• (General American) enPR: t??tl, IPA^(key): /?to?.t?l/, [t?o????], [t????]
• Rhymes: -??t?l

Noun

total (plural totals)

1. An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.

   A total of £145 was raised by the bring-and-buy stall.

2. (informal, mathematics) Sum.

   The total of 4, 5 and 6 is 15.

Synonyms

• (sum): sum

Derived terms

• subtotal

Translations

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

Adjective

total (comparative more total, superlative most total)

1. 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.
2. (used as an intensifier) Complete; absolute.

3. (mathematics) (of a function) Defined on all possible inputs.

Synonyms

• (entire): entire, full, whole; see also Thesaurus:entire
• (complete): absolute, complete, utter; see also Thesaurus:total

Derived terms

• total allergy syndrome
• total eclipse
• totalism
• totalitarian
• totality
• totally
• total order
• total war

Translations

Verb

total (third-person singular simple present totals, present participle (UK) totalling or (US) totaling, simple past and past participle (UK) totalled or (US) totaled)

1. (transitive) To add up; to calculate the sum of.

   When we totalled the takings, we always got a different figure.

2. To equal a total of; to amount to.

   That totals seven times so far.

3. (transitive, US, slang) to demolish; to wreck completely. (from total loss)

   Honey, I’m OK, but I’ve totaled the car.

4. (intransitive) To amount to; to add up to.

   It totals nearly a pound.

Synonyms

• (add up): add up, sum
• (demolish): demolish, trash, wreck

Translations

Anagrams

• lotta

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin t?t?lis.

Adjective

total (epicene, plural totales)

1. total

Noun

total m (plural totales)

1. total

Derived terms

• en total

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin t?t?lis, attested from the 16th century.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /to?tal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /tu?tal/

Adjective

total (masculine and feminine plural totals)

1. total

Derived terms

• totalment

Related terms

• totalitat

Noun

total m (plural totals)

1. total

Derived terms

• en total

References

Further reading

• “total” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “total” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “total” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Etymology 1

From French total.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tota?l/, [t?o?t?æ??l]

Adjective

total

1. total

Inflection

Noun

total c (singular definite totalen, plural indefinite totaler)

1. total

Inflection

Etymology 2

Compound of to (“two”) and tal (“number”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /total/, [?t?ot?al]

Noun

total n (singular definite totallet, plural indefinite totaller)

1. two

Inflection

Synonyms

• 2-tal

French

Etymology

From Latin t?t?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?.tal/
• Homophones: totale, totales

Adjective

total (feminine singular totale, masculine plural totaux, feminine plural totales)

1. total
2. perfect

Antonyms

• (total): partiel

Noun

total m (plural totaux)

1. total

Related terms

• au total
• question totale
• sous-total
• totalement
• totaliser
• totalitaire
• totalité
• tout

Further reading

• “total” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Etymology

From Latin t?t?lis.

Adjective

total m or f (plural totais)

1. complete, entire

Noun

total m (plural totais)

1. total

Further reading

• “total” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

German

Etymology

From Latin t?t?lis.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

total (not comparable)

1. total

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin t?t?lis, from totus.

Adjective

total (neuter singular totalt, definite singular and plural totale)

1. total

Derived terms

• totalskade
• totaltap

References

• “total” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin t?t?lis, from totus.

Adjective

total (neuter singular totalt, definite singular and plural totale)

1. total

Derived terms

• totalskadd
• totaltap

References

• “total” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Medieval Latin t?t?lis (“total”), from Latin t?tus (“whole”) + -?lis (“-al”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tu.?ta?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /to.?taw/

Adjective

total m or f (plural totais, comparable)

1. complete; entire (to the greatest extent)

   Synonyms: completo, inteiro

2. total (relating to the whole of something)

Antonyms

• (complete): incompleto, parcial

Noun

total m (plural totais)

1. total (amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts)

   Synonym: totalidade

Related terms

Romanian

Etymology

From French total

Adjective

total m or n (feminine singular total?, masculine plural totali, feminine and neuter plural totale)

1. total

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Medieval Latin t?t?lis, from t?tus (“all, whole, entire”).

Adjective

total (plural totales)

1. total, complete, outright

Adverb

total

1. (colloquial) basically, so, in short (used to summarise)

Noun

total m (plural totales)

1. total

Derived terms

• en total

See also

• todo

References

• “total” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology

From German total, from French total, from Latin totalis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??t??l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Adjective

total (not comparable)

1. total

Declension

References

• total in Svensk ordbok (SO)

Anagrams

• Lotta, lotta