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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: sum - summer fallowing</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="sum"> sum, noun, verb, summed, summing.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. an amount of money. Ex. He paid the sum of $7 for a new hat. <DD> 2. the number or quantity obtained by adding two or more numbers or quantities together; total. Ex. The sum of 2 and 3 and 4 is 9. <DD> 3. a series of two or more numbers or quantities to be added. <DD> 4. a problem in arithmetic. Ex. He can do easy sums in his head, but he has to use pencil and paper for hard ones. <DD> 5. the whole amount; total amount; aggregate; totality. Ex. an immense sum of misery (Macaulay). To win the prize seemed to her the sum of happiness. <DD> 6. (Figurative.) the essence or gist of anything; pith. Ex. That the Sermon on the Mount contains the sum and substance of Christianity ... (Frederick W. Robertson). <DD> 7. (Mathematics.) union (def. 9). <DD> 8. (Archaic.) a summary; epitome. <DD>v.t. 1. to find the total number or amount of. Ex. Nature's true-born child, who sums his years (like me) with no arithmetic but tears (Henry King). <DD> 2. to summarize; sum up. Ex. The phase ... may be summed in a word--Penitence (Charles Reade). <DD>v.i. to amount (to). Ex. How can the nine digits be placed in a square array to form eight intersecting sets of three digits ..., each summing to the same number? (Scientific American). expr. in sum, <DD> a. in a few words; briefly. Ex. My meaning, in sum, is, that whereas ... (F. Hall). <DD> b. to conclude in a few words; in short. Ex. In sum, I seriously protest, that no man ever had ... a greater veneration for Chaucer than myself (John Dryden). expr. sum up, <DD> a. to reckon, count, or total. Ex. to sum up the advantages of the offer. <DD> b. to express or tell briefly; summarize; epitomize. Ex. to sum up the week's work. Sum up the main points of the lesson in three sentences. <DD> c. to review the chief points of. Ex. The judge summed up the evidence for the jury. <DD> d. (Figurative.) to form an estimate of the qualities or character of; size up. Ex. They were not obviously staring, but he knew that they were rapidly summing him up (Hugh Walpole). <DD> e. to bring or collect into a whole or in a small compass. Ex. to sum up strength to deal a final blow. </DL> <A NAME="sum"> sum-,<DL COMPACT><DD> (prefix.) the form of sub- before m, as in Ex. summon. </DL> <A NAME="sumac"> sumac or sumach, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a shrub or small tree having divided leaves that turn scarlet in the autumn and long clusters of small, red or white, one-seeded fruit. In some species, such as the poison sumac and poison ivy, the foliage is poisonous to the touch. <DD> 2. the dried and powdered leaves and shoots of certain species, used in tanning and dyeing. <DD> 3. the wood of any of these plants. </DL> <A NAME="sumacfamily"> sumac family, =cashew family.</DL> <A NAME="sumatran"> Sumatran, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. of or having to do with the island of Sumatra, in western Indonesia, its people, or its language. <DD>noun 1. a native or inhabitant of Sumatra. <DD> 2. the Indonesian language of the Sumatrans. </DL> <A NAME="sumbul"> sumbul, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. any one of several aromatic or medicinal plants, such as the East Indian spikenard. <DD> 2. the root of such a plant. <DD> 3. a root, used as a nerve tonic and anti-spasmodic. </DL> <A NAME="sumerian"> Sumerian or Sumirian, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. of or having to do with the people of Sumer, an ancient region in the lower part of Mesopotamia (now Iraq), or their language. <DD>noun 1. a person who was born or lived in Sumer. Ex. In Dr. Gelb's view the Sumerians, that fabled people of Mesopotamia who for at least 1,500 years dominated the culture of the Near East, took the first step toward a "fully developed writing" (Scientific American). <DD> 2. a non-Semitic language of Sumer, recorded in cuneiform inscriptions. </DL> <A NAME="sumi"> sumi, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a black stick made of soot and glue, dipped in water for writing and drawing by Japanese artists. </DL> <A NAME="sumless"> sumless, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) that cannot be summed or reckoned up; incalculable. Ex. sumless treasures. </DL> <A NAME="summa"> summa, noun, pl. -mas, -mae.<DL COMPACT><DD> a summary treatise dealing with a particular field or subject, or with the whole of human knowledge. Ex. Although they acknowledged that God was ultimately unknowable, the medieval scholastics devoted page after learned page of their summas to discussions of the divine attributes (Time). </DL> <A NAME="summability"> summability, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the condition of being mathematically summable. </DL> <A NAME="summable"> summable, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be summed. </DL> <A NAME="summacumlaude"> summa cum laude,<DL COMPACT><DD> with the highest distinction. These words are added to the diploma of a student who has done unusually good academic work. </DL> <A NAME="summand"> summand, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one of two or more numbers or quantities to be added together. </DL> <A NAME="summarily"> summarily, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in a summary manner; without delay; briefly. </DL> <A NAME="summariness"> summariness, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the character of being summary. </DL> <A NAME="summarise"> summarise, transitive verb, intransitive verb, -rised, -rising.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Especially British.) summarize. </DL> <A NAME="summarist"> summarist, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the maker of a summary. </DL> <A NAME="summarization"> summarization, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the act or process of summarizing. <DD> 2. an instance of summarizing. </DL> <A NAME="summarize"> summarize, transitive verb, intransitive verb, -rized, -rizing.<DL COMPACT><DD> to make a summary of; give only the main points of; express briefly; sum up. Ex. to summarize the story of a book. It may be too early as yet to summarize any results (London Times). </DL> <A NAME="summarizer"> summarizer, noun. =summarist.</DL> <A NAME="summary"> summary, noun, pl. -ries, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a brief statement giving the main points or substance of a matter; epitome; abstract; abridgment. Ex. This history book has a summary at the end of each chapter. <DD>adj. 1. containing or comprising the chief points; concise and comprehensive; brief; short. Ex. a summary account. (SYN) terse, succinct. <DD> 2. direct and prompt; without delay. Ex. The soldier took summary vengeance by killing both his enemies. He cleared the table by the summary process of tilting everything upon it into the fireplace (Dickens). <DD> 3. carried out or determined rapidly, with the omission of certain formalities usually required by law. Ex. summary proceedings. The governor took summary action to aid the flood victims. </DL> <A NAME="summate"> summate, transitive verb, intransitive verb, -mated, -mating.<DL COMPACT><DD> to add; sum; find the total of. </DL> <A NAME="summation"> summation, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the process of finding the sum or total; addition. Ex. the ... summation of a grotesque assembly of faults (H. G. Wells). <DD> 2. the total. (SYN) aggregate. <DD> 3. (Law.) the final presentation of facts and arguments by the counsel for each side. </DL> <A NAME="summational"> summational, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> produced or expressed by summation or addition. </DL> <A NAME="summationsign"> summation sign,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Mathematics.) the Greek capital letter sigma, used to denote the sum of a series of quantities. </DL> <A NAME="summative"> summative, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> involving summation or addition; additive. </DL> <A NAME="summer"> summer (1), noun, adjective, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. the warmest season of the year; season of the year between spring and autumn. Ex. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate (Shakespeare). <DD> 2. (Figurative.) anything considered like summer in its warmth, full beauty, healthy maturity, or the like. Ex. a young man in the summer of his life. But thy eternal summer shall not fade (Shakespeare). I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more (Edna St. Vincent Millay). <DD>adj. 1. of summer; in summer. Ex. a summer night, summer flowers, summer heat. (Figurative.) Some happy summer isle (William Morris). <DD> 2. used in summer; for summer. Ex. summer clothes, a summer cottage. <DD> 3. held in or during the summer. Ex. a summer job, summer sessions, a summer program, summer theater. <DD>v.i. to spend the summer. Ex. to summer at the seashore. <DD>v.t. to keep or feed during the summer; arrange or manage during the summer. Ex. to summer the stock, to summer cattle in the mountains. </DL> <A NAME="summer"> summer (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a horizontal bearing beam in a building, especially the main beam supporting the girders or joists of a floor (or occasionally the rafters of a roof). <DD> 2. a large stone laid over a column in beginning a cross vault. <DD> 3. =lintel. </DL> <A NAME="summeravalanche"> summer avalanche, =ice avalanche.</DL> <A NAME="summercamp"> summer camp,<DL COMPACT><DD> a camp for health and recreation, especially for children, open during the summer. </DL> <A NAME="summercypress"> summer cypress,<DL COMPACT><DD> an erect, many-branched bushy annual plant of the goosefoot family, grown for its colorful foliage, which turns purplish red in the fall. </DL> <A NAME="summerfallowing"> summer fallowing,<DL COMPACT><DD> the practice in dry regions of plowing land in the summer and planting the next spring. </DL> <A HREF="summerfl.dic">NEXT</A>