| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. The general sense or significance, as of an action or statement: burden2, drift, import, purport, substance, tenor. Idioms: sum and substance, sum total. See MEANING. 2. A measurable whole: body, budget, bulk, corpus, quantity, quantum. See BIG. 3. A number or quantity obtained as a result of addition: aggregate, sum, summation, sum total, total, totality. Archaic : tale. See COUNT. | | VERB: | 1. To be equivalent or tantamount: constitute, correspond, equal. Idioms: have all the earmarks. See BE. 2. To come to in number or quantity: aggregate, number, reach, run into, total. Idioms: add up to. See INCREASE.
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