"add up" meaning in English

See add up in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Audio: en-au-add up.ogg Forms: adds up [present, singular, third-person], adding up [participle, present], added up [participle, past], added up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} add up (third-person singular simple present adds up, present participle adding up, simple past and past participle added up)
  1. (transitive, of a numerical amount) To take the sum of; to total. Tags: transitive Synonyms (take a sum): sum up Translations (take a sum): laskea yhteen (Finnish), additionner (French), dodać [perfective] (Polish), dodawać [imperfective] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-add_up-en-verb-KBaLdX1V Disambiguation of 'take a sum': 80 20 0 Disambiguation of 'take a sum': 80 20 0
  2. (intransitive) To accumulate; to amount to. Tags: intransitive Synonyms (amount to): accrue Translations (amount to): faire (French), sommarsi (Italian), sumować się (Polish), birikmek (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-add_up-en-verb-2g36oJFI Disambiguation of 'amount to': 5 89 5 Disambiguation of 'amount to': 4 90 5
  3. (idiomatic, intransitive) To make sense; to be reasonable or consistent. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive Synonyms (make sense): compute, hang together
    Sense id: en-add_up-en-verb-3ZZaQR7~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "up", Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Turkish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 17 30 53 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "up": 13 18 70 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 16 20 64 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 13 24 63 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 11 14 75 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 10 19 71 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 15 17 68 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 11 15 74 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 13 20 67 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 10 18 72 Disambiguation of 'make sense': 1 2 96
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hypernyms: calculate Holonyms: arithmetic
Synonyms: tally, summate, mount up, accumulate, add, add together, add up, cast [dated], count up, foot up, reckon up, sum, tally up, tot, tot up, total, tote, tote up

Inflected forms

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