Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make or combine into a total.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make total; reduce to totality, as by adding or accumulating.
- To use the totalizer in betting.
- Also spelled
totalise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make total, or complete; to reduce to completeness.
- intransitive verb To use a totalizator.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To combine parts to make a
total .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make into a total
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's very much like this, seeing that the idea was over ten years ago and during that process other things came into totalize the idea; I took notes, sometimes mental notes, to build up the ideas and when I came down to it, the writing probably only took eight months but I had to spread it over three years because I had two other ghostwriting books to finish in between times.
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In the same sentence you totalize Rand's promotion of her work and/or retention of her money.
Inspiration from Ayn Rand, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2010
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There are little cracks to squirm into, of course, as nothing can ever truly totalize except in that magical, horrible moment, where the territory becomes the map.
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At the same time, the university as a locus of the plasticity of thought must not totalize the presumption of translatability; absolute translation is non-existent, and translation always involves partial reduction.
Eurozine articles Boyan Manchev 2010
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We must instead recognize play as a catalyst for rupture and totalize it, in response to the affects and history of domination.
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Both reduce (i.e., essentialize) and totalize their experiences of modernity in single, sweeping rhetorical movements.
MRZine.org 2009
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Both reduce (i.e., essentialize) and totalize their experiences of modernity in single, sweeping rhetorical movements.
MRZine.org 2009
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Both reduce (i.e., essentialize) and totalize their experiences of modernity in single, sweeping rhetorical movements.
MRZine.org 2009
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For my part I treat the graph as referring not to sexuation but to attempts to totalize the symbolic or different ontological structures.
Larval Subjects . 2008
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IMO, in trying to think through the way forward, it’s extremely important not to totalize such complex and heterogeneous social formations as “the Left” and “the Right.”
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