| 单词 | to add up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto add up to add up 1. a. transitive. To find the sum of (a column or series of numbers, a number of things, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > number, calculate, or reckon [verb (transitive)] rimeeOE arimec885 atellc885 talec897 i-telle971 tellOE readc1225 reckon?c1225 aima1375 numbera1382 denumber1382 accounta1393 casta1400 countc1400 umberc1400 ascribe1432 annumerate?a1475 to sum upa1475 annumbera1500 ennumber1535 reckon?1537 tally1542 compute1579 recount1581 rate1599 catalogize1602 to add up1611 suma1616 enumeratea1649 numerate1657 to run up1830 to figure out1834 figure1854 to count up1872 enumer1936 the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > perform arithmetic or algebraic operations [verb (transitive)] > add or sum suma1387 drawc1392 to lay togethera1400 add?c1425 foot1491 confer1552 to add up1611 total1716 sum1740 tot1770 to run up1830 summate1880 1611 F. Davison et al. Poet. Rapsodie (new ed.) 206 All the fractions now which man did make, Since it in one whole number nature gaue, Are added vp, and brought to one great stake. 1660 W. Jackson Introd. First Grounds Arithm. 33 So have I multiplied all my figures of the multiplier, by all the figures of the multiplicand, there remains to add up all into one sum. 1701 C. Snell Merchants Accompts sig. B7 When you conclude a Months Affairs, you add up your Book of Trade Charges for that Month, and carry the Total thereof to the credit side of you[r] Cash-book. 1742 J. Marsh Decimal Arithm. made Perfect ii. 30 Add up the Right-hand Column by 9's, and place the Overplus, if any..at its bottom. 1820 J. Gummere Treat. Surv. (ed. 3) 113 Add up the northings and southings, and if the sums are not equal, find their difference. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 126 All my years when added up are many. 1893 Times 25 Sept. 2/6 A machine..possessing remarkable capabilities for printing and adding up figures has recently reached this country. 1927 A. L. Bowley & J. C. Stamp National Income 1924 23 The unweighted average is obtained by adding up the percentages and dividing by the number of them. 1980 M. Robinson Housekeeping xi. 218 We do not sit down at the table next to hers and empty our pockets..and add up the coins and dollar bills. 1998 Independent 11 Mar. i. 5/2 The maths test included adding up the cost of a loaf of bread and two tins of soup. b. intransitive. To perform the arithmetical process of addition. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > perform arithmetic or algebraic operations [verb (intransitive)] > add or sum addc1475 to add up1754 1754 D. Fenning Brit. Youth's Instructor ii. iv. 25 To add up well..is a great Step towards Multiplication. 1842 J. Abbott Cousin Lucy at Study i. 15 Then he began to teach Lucy how to add up. 1886 F. H. Burnett Little Lord Fauntleroy xi. 210 Little Lord Fauntleroy..had learned how to add up quite nicely with his fingers and a slate and pencil. 1972 J. Wilson Hide & Seek ii. 34 Alice taught Mary how to read and how to add up. 2007 S. Moody Dyslexia v. 36 I don't imagine that you initially learnt how to add up and subtract in a theoretical way. 2. intransitive. Of numbers: to yield the correct, expected, or desired total when added; (of a calculation) to yield a correct or satisfactory result. Frequently in negative contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > enumerate, reckon, or calculate [verb (intransitive)] > amount or be equal to goeOE risec1175 amount1399 mountc1400 to come to ——?a1425 draw1425 reach1431 to run to ——1528 surmount1551 to come unto ——1562 arise1594 to equivalize account1647 tell1671 sum1721 reckon1783 count1819 number1842 to add up1850 to add up to1853 to work out1867 total1880 to tot up1882 1850 C. Dickens David Copperfield xli. 427 The figures made her cry. They wouldn't add up, she said. 1864 Good Words 5 316/2 It struck me that a series of figures just given by the traffic-manager of a railway company, would not add up. 1893 Chambers's Jrnl. 26 Aug. 532/1 Account books that would not add up right. 1901 ‘H. V. Esmond’ One Summer's Day i. 11 Fresh air into tiny lungs—much better than squeaky slates and horrid niggling sums that won't add up. 2006 K. Henderson While they're at War ii. xi. 157 He had the look of a child struggling with a math problem that wouldn't add up. 3. intransitive. To make sense; to seem reasonable or consistent; to have the desired effect or result, to work. Frequently in negative contexts. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > be intelligible [verb (intransitive)] to make sense1554 connect1753 it (or that) figures1854 click1916 to add up1942 jive1943 1942 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 27 Apr. 8/4 How does it [sc. the evidence] all add up? 1945 M. Allingham Coroner's Pidgin xi. 88 I've tried to make it mean something else, but it doesn't add up any other way. 1961 ‘A. A. Fair’ Stop at Red Light (1962) vii. 108 That adds up, Donald. Stay with it. You're doing fine. 1995 Wine Spectator 28 Feb. 67/3 An antipasto of raw shrimp with olive oil and orange juice didn't add up, but gratinéed squid with a simple garnish of coarsely chopped arugula worked beautifully. 2007 Booklist (Nexis) 15 Mar. 31 Something just doesn't add up, and pretty soon he is pressuring her to share the reason behind her erratic flight. < as lemmas |
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