Akademik

add up

verb

1. develop into (Freq. 4)

- This idea will never amount to anything

- nothing came of his grandiose plans

• Syn: ↑come, ↑amount

• Hypernyms: ↑become, ↑turn

• Hyponyms: ↑aggregate

• Verb Frames:

- Something ——s something

2. determine the sum of (Freq. 2)

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

• Syn:

• Derivationally related forms:

↑tally (for: ↑tally), ↑addible (for: ↑add), ↑additive (for: ↑add), ↑addable (for: ↑add), ↑addition (for: ↑add), ↑adder (for: ↑add), ↑sum (for: ↑summate), ↑sum (for: ↑sum), ↑summation (for: ↑sum), ↑total (for: ↑total)

• Hypernyms: ↑count, ↑number, ↑enumerate, ↑numerate

• Verb Group: ↑add, ↑add together

• Verb Frames:

- Somebody ——s something

- Something ——s something

3. add up in number or quantity

- The bills amounted to $2,000

- The bill came to $2,000

• Syn: ↑total, ↑number, ↑come, ↑amount

• Derivationally related forms: ↑amount (for: ↑amount), ↑number (for: ↑number), ↑total (for: ↑total)

• Hypernyms: ↑be

• Verb Frames:

- Something ——s something

4. be reasonable or logical or comprehensible

• Syn: ↑make sense

• Hypernyms: ↑be

• Verb Frames:

- Something ——s

- It ——s that CLAUSE

Useful english dictionary. 2012.