Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of one who sums, in any sense of the verb sum; specifically, the act or process of working out an arithmetical problem.
- noun In law: The address of the judge to the jury on a trial, after the close of the evidence and generally after arguments of counsel, usually recapitulating the essential points of the case and the evidence, and instructing them on the law. This is the English usage of the phrase, and corresponds to the charge or the American use of the word instructions.
- noun The argument of counsel at the close of evidence on a trial either before a jury or before a judge or referee. This is the American usage of the phrase.
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- verb Present participle of
sum .
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Examples
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Such was the horror of the conflict it became known, in a phrase summing up the vanity of hope, as "the war to end all wars."
Last World War I Veteran Dies at 110 Stephen Bell 2011
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Inside, a long article about me declared near the top of the story, “Here comes 19-year-old Apolo Ohno, the name summing up divine talent and ungodly trouble,” adding a few sentences later, “Now comes Ohno, a diamond stud in his ear, a whiff of scandal in his wake.”
Zero Regrets Apolo Ohno 2010
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Inside, a long article about me declared near the top of the story, “Here comes 19-year-old Apolo Ohno, the name summing up divine talent and ungodly trouble,” adding a few sentences later, “Now comes Ohno, a diamond stud in his ear, a whiff of scandal in his wake.”
Zero Regrets Apolo Ohno 2010
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Inside, a long article about me declared near the top of the story, “Here comes 19-year-old Apolo Ohno, the name summing up divine talent and ungodly trouble,” adding a few sentences later, “Now comes Ohno, a diamond stud in his ear, a whiff of scandal in his wake.”
Zero Regrets Apolo Ohno 2010
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"Drop back, scramble right, scramble left, find someone open," he said in summing up a night in which he scrambled right before throwing the game-winning, 6-yard touchdown pass to Santonio Holmes with 35 seconds left.
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Then in summing up Simon Mayo (and I give him credit for this) returns to the 4 June question:
Archive 2008-07-01 Not a sheep 2008
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They haven't developed enough 4 letter, nasty, terrible adjectives to describe this administration, but the one you used seems pretty accurate in summing up the last 8 years. big daddy from california
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You have an incredible alacrity in summing up statistical resonance and pouring it into the simplest graphical display.
No nuts, please. Jessica Hagy 2007
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It inspired the once hidden but now public title summing up the entire Bush Administration - as the ranks of critics continues to swell: "Nothing Matters."
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I call summing it all up the Fortune Cookie Method.
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