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Pronounce Sum as S UW M.

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    Sum phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'sum'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of sum: /sum/
    • Modern IPA representation of sum: /sʊm/

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    List of meaning for sum

    an amount added together

    sum, sum of money, amount, amount of money(noun)

    a quantity of money

    "he borrowed a large sum"; "the amount he had in cash was insufficient"

    sum, amount, total(noun)

    a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers

    sum, summation, sum total(noun)

    the final aggregate

    "the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered"

    kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty(noun)

    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"

    sum, total, totality, aggregate(noun)

    the whole amount

    union, sum, join(verb)

    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"

    summarize, summarise, sum, sum up(verb)

    be a summary of

    "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper"

    total, tot, tot up, sum, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add together, tally, add up(verb)

    determine the sum of

    "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town"

    a complete amount of something

    the sum of human knowledge on that subject

    a short statement of the main points

    the district attorney delivered a sum of the evidence against the accused that was simply staggering

    the highest part or point

    he declared that he had reached the sum of joy when his newborn daughter was laid in his arms

    the central part or aspect of something under consideration

    the sum of the issue is: who will pay for this?

    to combine (numbers) into a single sum

    can sum figures in his head faster than I can punch them into a calculator

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    sum in sentence

    1. Though he had lost the company a large sum of money, the owner would not fire him because he knew his talent was inimitable.

    2. To be accepted into the premier nursery school, students were required to have a high IQ and their parents had to pay a large sum of money.

    3. The money that is owed to the bank is a great sum that I can’t pay back right now, forcing me to take another loan and starting a vicious cycle.

    4. Instead of jail time, the shoplifter has been ordered to pay a huge sum of money as restitution for the stolen items.

    5. Larry worked for fifty years because he wanted to be able to bequeath his wife a tidy sum when he died.

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term sum

    Genuine success is not in all you’ve been able to achieve or acquire. It’s the sum total of all the positive things you’ve accomplished in a lifetime.

    Ellis Mbeku

    It's not just immediate annuities anymore, where you hand over a lump sum of money all at once, there are a lot of different options now that can meet different needs of plan participants and employers.

    Melissa Kahn

    The pressure of just wanting it to be so great and it’s such a new place to be. After everything I've done trying to kind of sum it up, you know what I mean? Boil it down, it was a lot and everything went wrong building up to it as always… When you have so much experience in it, you just remain calm because you know it's gonna work out. It has to. Some version of it will work out.

    Gwen Stefani

    Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

    Jose Ortega y Gasset

    The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one other person.

    Vi Putnam

    The sum paid by Google seems disproportionately small when compared with the size of Google’s business in the UK.

    Public Accounts Committee

    The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.

    VII Putnam

    I want more monuments erected. But don't defile the ones that exist -- we are the sum total of all the history, not just the fun parts. people down the years will be looking at the statue and at his history and what he did.

    Ramabina Mahapa

    Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

    Robert J. Collier

    There is a key man risk with Contrafund, not only has Danoff done quite well but he's managing such a large sum of money that it's not a role that another person could easily step into.

    Katie Rushkewicz Reichart

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