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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1716, "bring to a total," from total (n.). Intransitive sense "reach a total of" is from 1859. Meaning "to destroy one's car" first recorded 1954. Related: Totaled ; totaling .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Total \To"tal\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Totaled or Totalled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Totaling or Totalling .] To bring to a total; also, to reach as a total; to amount to. [Colloq.] to determine the total of (a set of numbers); to add; -- often used with up; as, to ...

Usage examples of total.

The proposed acquiescence of the National Executive in any reasonable temporary State arrangement for the freed people is made with the view of possibly modifying the confusion and destitution which must at best attend all classes by a total revolution of labor throughout whole States.

Intellectual-Principle which actually is the primals and is always self-present and is in its nature an Act, never by any want forced to seek, never acquiring or traversing the remote--for all such experience belongs to soul--but always self-gathered, the very Being of the collective total, not an extern creating things by the act of knowing them.

Louisiana --and I am estimating this school acreage at but one thirty-sixth instead of one-eighteenth of the total acreage.

Is it the Actualization of a statue, where the combination is realized because the Form-Idea has mastered each separate constituent of the total?

Perhaps if he embarrassed himself badly enough, it would at least slow the Adjutors down in their rush to total power.

Their view is plausible because it rejects the notion of total admixture and because it recognizes that the masses of the mixing bodies must be whittled away if there is to be mixture without any gap, if, that is to say, each substance must be divided within itself through and through for complete interpenetration with the other.

From the moment they first contact bare flesh until the point of total absorption and adsorption, complete synthesis, is maybe three seconds.

I began by showing him that Leticia Nazareno owed us for an amount of taffeta twice the nautical distance to Santa Maria del Altar, that is, one hundred ninety leagues, and he said aha as if to himself, and I ended up by showing him that the total debt with the special discount for your excellency was equal to six times the grand prize in the lottery for ten years, and he said aha again and only then did he look at me directly without his glasses and I could see that his eyes were timid and indulgent, and only then did he tell me with a strange voice of harmony that our reasons were clear and just, to each his own, he said, have them send the bill to the government.

How many women, taking an amnesiac total stranger into their house, would also take him into their bed?

Capitol Hill has an anachronistic, almost bohemian, feel to it, a total contrast with the rest of the sprawl.

It was also documented that the patient had a total paralysis following his anesthetic complication that involved not only the spinal cord but cranial nerves as well.

Dixon reports a case of total aniridia with excellent sight in a woman of thirty-seven.

And given the spotty reporting and infrequent preservation of these highly anomalous discoveries, it is likely that the entire body of reports now existing represents only a small fraction of the total number of such discoveries made over the past few centuries.

Schenck details the history of a case in which the pulse ceased for three days and asphyxia was almost total, but the patient eventually recovered.

To continue the atomizing of the host-people, class war is a basic tenet of the total view.