adding up
Reaching a total
Adding up is the process of combining numbers to find a total: I'm still adding up the receipts.
Beyond arithmetic, it describes accumulating toward significance: The small expenses are adding up.
When something doesn't add up, it fails to make sense or be believable: His story just doesn't add up.
- summingAdding quantities together
- totalingCalculating a sum
- tallyingSumming items systematically
- amountingEqualing in sum
- computeDetermine by calculation
sum · dawning · counting · keeping score · clicking · falling into place · aggregate · accumulate · arithmetic · making sense · balancing · enumerating · number crunching · calculating · jibing · reckoning · piling · accruing
- counting activitiestallying, numbering, enumerating, tabulating, calculating
- counting methodscount, tally, counting, skip counting, counting by twos
adding upsubtracting
Removing quantity from another
taking away · deducting · subtraction · reducing · diminishing
adding upfalling apart
Gradually breaking into pieces
contradicting · unraveling · breaking down · confounding · confusing
adding updwindling
Progressively becoming smaller
depleting · running down · eroding · dissipating · tapering off
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