add up en · VERB
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(of a numerical amount, transitive) To take the sum of; to total.
When they added up the vaccine doses from all known and anticipate sources, they didn't have enough.
Add up the prices and find out how much it will cost.
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(intransitive) To accumulate; to amount to.
The bus wound its way up into San Marino, passing through the various small castellos that add up to form the diminutive country, […]
2016, Christopher Walker, The First 49:It all keeps adding up / I think I'm cracking up / Am I just paranoid? / Or am I just stoned?
1994, Green Day, “Basket Case”, in Dookie:If you can save even a couple of dollars per day, it will add up to a lot over a year.
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(idiomatic, intransitive) To make sense; to be reasonable or consistent.
His story just doesn't add up. Why would he have been at the restaurant the day before the event?
Phoenix: (Hmm... Something just isn't adding up here. I wonder, who they really saw?)
2007 March 16, Capcom Production Studio 4, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice for All, Europe: Capcom, →OCLC, Nintendo DS, scene: Part 3: Investigation, Circus Entrance, level/area: Turnabout Big Top:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| added up | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| added up | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| adds up | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| adding up | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |
Antonyms
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Hypernyms
Synonyms
check out · hang together · tally · mount up · count up · tally · total · tote · add · tote up · foot up · add up · cast · reckon up · tot · figure · summate · compute · sum up · make sense · tot up · add together · tally up · track · sum · accrue · sum up
Translations (20)
pl kleić się (to be reasonable or consistent; to make sense) · pl sumować się (to amount to) · fi laskea yhteen (to take a sum) · es adicionar (to take a sum) · pl sumować (to take a sum) · pl dodać (to take a sum) · pl zgadzać się (to be reasonable or consistent; to make sense) · pl zsumować (to take a sum) · pl podliczać (to take a sum) · tr birikmek (to amount to) · pl podliczyć (to take a sum) · pl wynosić (to amount to) · pl wynieść (to amount to) · pl trzymać się kupy (to be reasonable or consistent; to make sense) · pl zsumowywać (to take a sum) · pl mieć sens (to be reasonable or consistent; to make sense) · pl dodawać (to take a sum) · fr faire (to amount to) · fr additionner (to take a sum) · it sommarsi (to amount to)