What is "sum up"

vb. (context idiomatic English) to summarize

1. v. give a summary (of); "he summed up his results"; "I will now summarize" [syn: summarize, summarise, resume]

2. be a summary of; "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper" [syn: summarize, summarise, sum]

3. determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town" [syn: total, tot, tot up, sum, summate, tote up, add, add together, tally, add up]