to add together
- phrasal verb
- Add all the numbers together, if the sum is divisible by four, then the answer is yes.
- items are added together
- scores are added together
- added together to produce
The headphones record the sound that's coming in, completely invert that sound wave and add them together so that they cancel each other out.
- The headphones record the sound that's coming in, completely invert that sound wave and add them together so that they cancel each other out.
- And with something like this, two logs added together is going to end up being the same as one log of a product.
- I mean, the quarks do have masses, but if you add them together, the sum is far less than the mass of either the neutron or the proton.
- It's like taking a lot of numbers that don't look alike and don't mean anything until you add them all together.
- I mean, often it's done you add them together to get here, right?
- When we're adding, you're just going to be adding them together.
- So when you Add all this together, yes, these things are constant, not only in place but in time and only in time but in place.
Examples
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Now if I add these three pieces together, what do I get?
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To find the total cost, you need to add together the prices of each item.
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OK, well actually we just add these together, add them up.
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Ok, um, all we have to do is add the numbers together.
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No, you add them all together.
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And now we can add them together and the result is this vector.
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Well, we're going to end up adding all of these together and getting the sum of all of these rows.
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The value of goods purchased, added together, equals Gross Domestic Product.
Blog text (13) -
Items were added together for a total score on each subscale to determine the level of job demand.
Academic text (2011) -
For each patient, major and minor symptom scores were added together to arrive at a total symptom score.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
Put numbers or amounts together to find their total
To add two or more numbers to find their total
Find the total of several numbers
To add numbers together to find the whole amount
Collect small amounts until they become a larger total
To count or add things like points and votes
Add several numbers to find the total
Add numbers to find the total
To add numbers together to find the total
Join numbers or ideas to make one whole
Add numbers in a column to find the total
To add a group of numbers to find the total
To add small amounts together to make a total
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to calculate the total' is directly and transparently derived from 'add' (combine numbers) plus 'together' (jointly), with the particle simply emphasizing combination. This compositional pattern (verb + particle reinforcing aggregation) is common and cross-linguistically familiar, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Add together comes from the simple image of putting two groups into one pile: imagine you have two piles of coins and you put them together to add them, then you count all the coins. That's why it means 'to calculate the total'.