What is "summing"

Sum \Sum\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Summed; p. pr. & vb. n. Summing.] [Cf. F. sommer, LL. summare.]

1. To bring together into one whole; to collect into one amount; to cast up, as a column of figures; to ascertain the totality of; -- usually with up.

   The mind doth value every moment, and then the hour doth rather sum up the moments, than divide the day.
   --Bacon.

2. To bring or collect into a small compass; to comprise in a few words; to condense; -- usually with up.

   ``Go to the ant, thou sluggard,'' in few words sums up the moral of this fable.
   --L'Estrange.

   He sums their virtues in himself alone.
   --Dryden.

3. (Falconry) To have (the feathers) full grown; to furnish with complete, or full-grown, plumage.

   But feathered soon and fledge They summed their pens [wings].
   --Milton.

   Summing up, a compendium or abridgment; a recapitulation; a r['e]sum['e]; a summary.

   Syn: To cast up; collect; comprise; condense; comprehend; compute.

n. The act or result of addition; a sum. vb. (present participle of sum English)

1. n. a quantity of money; "he borrowed a large sum"; "the amount he had in cash was insufficient" [syn: sum of money, amount, amount of money]

2. a quantity obtained by addition [syn: amount, total]

3. the final aggregate; "the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered" [syn: summation, sum total]

4. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story" [syn: kernel, substance, core, center, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, nitty-gritty]

5. the whole amount [syn: total, totality, aggregate]

6. the basic unit of money in Uzbekistan

7. a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets; "let C be the union of the sets A and B" [syn: union, join]

8. [also: summing, summed]

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

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

3. [also: summing, summed]

See sum

Summing (April 16, 1978 – October 10, 2008) was an American thoroughbred racehorse and sire.