add up
To take the sum of; to totalTo take the sum of; to total.
Meaning
3 senses(transitive)To take the sum of; to total.
Add up the prices and find out how much it will cost.
When they added up the vaccine doses from all known and anticipate sources, they didn't have enough.
determine the sum of
(intransitive)To accumulate; to amount to.
If you can save even a couple of dollars per day, it will add up to a lot over a year.
(idiomatic, intransitive)To make sense; to be reasonable or consistent.
His story just doesn't add up. Why would he have been at the restaurant the day before the event?
be reasonable or logical or comprehensible
Examples
78 sentencesTranslations
5 languagesForms
adds up, adding up, added up, added upPhrasal verbs
2 phrasal verbsSynonyms
28 synonymsAntonyms
1 antonymsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Phrasal verbs: introduction — Because it is a phrasal verb
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.