total
    adj 1: constituting the full quantity or extent; complete; "an
           entire town devastated by an earthquake"; "gave full
           attention"; "a total failure" [syn: entire, full,
           total]
    2: complete in extent or degree and in every particular; "a full
       game"; "a total eclipse"; "a total disaster" [syn: full,
       total]
    n 1: the whole amount [syn: sum, total, totality,
         aggregate]
    2: a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
       [syn: sum, amount, total]
    v 1: add up in number or quantity; "The bills amounted to
         $2,000"; "The bill came to $2,000" [syn: total, number,
         add up, come, amount]
    2: determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to
       those of the neighboring town" [syn: total, tot, tot
       up, sum, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add
       together, tally, add up]
    3: damage beyond the point of repair; "My son totaled our new
       car"; "the rock star totals his guitar at every concert"

Total \To"tal\, a. [F., fr. LL. totalis, fr. L. tolus all,whole.
   Cf. Factotum, Surtout, Teetotum.]
   Whole; not divided; entire; full; complete; absolute; as, a
   total departure from the evidence; a total loss. " Total
   darkness." "To undergo myself the total crime." --Milton.
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   Total abstinence. See Abstinence, n., 1.

   Total depravity. (Theol.) See Original sin, under
      Original.
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   Syn: Whole; entire; complete. See Whole.
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Total \To"tal\, n.
   The whole; the whole sum or amount; as, these sums added make
   the grand total of five millions.
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Total \To"tal\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Totaledor Totalled; p.
   pr. & vb. n. Totaling or Totalling.]
   1. To bring to a total; also, to reach as a total; to amount
      to. [Colloq.]
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

   2. to determine the total of (a set of numbers); to add; --
      often used with up; as, to total up the bill.
      [PJC]

   3. To damage beyond repair; -- used especially of vehicles
      damaged in an accident; as, he skid on an ice patch and
      totaled his Mercedes against a tree. From total loss.
      [colloq.]
      [PJC]

TOTAL. Complete; containing the whole; as the total amount of an account is 
all the items of such account added together; total incapacity, is an 
absolute and complete incapacity to do a thing. A married woman is totally 
incapable to make a contract, because, although having intelligence, she has 
not legal capacity and an idiot is totally incapable to enter into a 
contract, because he has no will.