The last paragraph should sum up the main points of your argument.
He's a small man with a big ego — that about sums him up.
To sum up, Eleanor has promised to revise the designs, and Bernard will finalize the text.
New idioms dictionary. 2014.
sum someone/something up — 1 one reviewer summed it up as ‘compelling’: EVALUATE, assess, appraise, rate, weigh up, gauge, judge, deem, adjudge, estimate, form an opinion of. 2 he summed up his rea … Useful english dictionary
sum someone/something up — 1) that just about sums him up Syn: evaluate, describe, encapsulate, summarize, put in a nutshell 2) he summed up his reasons Syn: summarize, make/give a summary of, precis, outline, recapitulate, re … Synonyms and antonyms dictionary
sum up — (something) to give a brief but complete statement. The last paragraph should sum up the main points of your argument. He s a small man with a big ego that about sums him up. To sum up, Eleanor has promised to revise the designs, and Bernard will … New idioms dictionary
sum — sum1 W2S3 [sʌm] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(money)¦ 2 the sum of something 3 greater/more/better etc than the sum of its parts 4¦(calculation)¦ 5 do your sums 6 in sum ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: summe, from Latin s … Dictionary of contemporary English
sum — 1 /sVm/ noun 1 MONEY (C) an amount of money: a large/small sum (of): Sid was left a large sum of money by his aunt. | for the sum of: It was mine for the sum of 20. see also: lump sum, princely sum princely (1) 2 the sum of the total produced… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
sum — [[t]sʌ̱m[/t]] ♦♦♦ sums, summing, summed 1) N COUNT: oft N of n A sum of money is an amount of money. Large sums of money were lost... Even the relatively modest sum of ₤50,000 now seems beyond his reach. 2) N COUNT A sum is a simple calculation… … English dictionary
sum — noun 1) a large sum of money Syn: amount, quantity, price, charge, fee, cost 2) the sum of two numbers Syn: total, sum total, grand total, tally 3) … Synonyms and antonyms dictionary
something — /sum thing /, pron. 1. some thing; a certain undetermined or unspecified thing: Something is wrong there. Something s happening. 2. an additional amount, as of cents or minutes, that is unknown, unspecified, or forgotten: He charged me ten… … Universalium
sum — [sum; ] for n. 6 [ so͞om] n. [ME somme < MFr < L summa, fem. of summus, highest, superl. < base of super: see SUPER ] 1. an amount of money [a sum paid in reparation] 2. the whole amount; totality; aggregate [the sum of our experience] 3 … English World dictionary
sum of its parts — see ↑sum, 1 • • • Main Entry: ↑part sum of its parts ◇ Something that is greater/better/more than the sum of its parts is better or more effective as a team, combination, etc., than you would expect it to be when you look at the different parts… … Useful english dictionary
