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Product vs. Sum

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Productnoun

A commodity offered for sale.

‘That store offers a variety of products.’; ‘We've got to sell a lot of product by the end of the month.’;

Sumnoun

A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.

‘The sum of 3 and 4 is 7.’;

Productnoun

Any preparation to be applied to the hair, skin, nails, etc.

‘Wash excess product out of your hair.’;

Sumnoun

(often plural) An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily limited to addition).

‘We're learning about division, and the sums are tricky.’;

Productnoun

Anything that is produced; a result.

‘The product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.’;

Sumnoun

A quantity of money.

‘a tidy sum’; ‘the sum of forty pounds’;

Productnoun

The amount of an artifact that has been created by someone or some process.

‘They improve their product every year; they export most of their agricultural production.’;

Sumnoun

A summary; the principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the amount; the substance; compendium.

‘This is the sum of all the evidence in the case.’; ‘This is the sum and substance of his objections.’;

Productnoun

A consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances.

‘Skill is the product of hours of practice.’; ‘His reaction was the product of hunger and fatigue.’;

Sumnoun

A central idea or point.

Productnoun

(chemistry) A chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction.

‘This is a product of lime and nitric acid.’;

Sumnoun

The utmost degree.

Productnoun

(arithmetic) A quantity obtained by multiplication of two or more numbers.

‘The product of 2 and 3 is 6.’; ‘The product of 2, 3, and 4 is 24.’;

Sumnoun

(obsolete) An old English measure of corn equal to the quarter.

Productnoun

(mathematics) Any operation or a result thereof which generalises multiplication of numbers, like the multiplicative operation in a ring, product of types or a categorical product.

Sumnoun

The basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan.

Productnoun

Any tangible or intangible good or service that is a result of a process and that is intended for delivery to a customer or end user.

Sumnoun

The basic unit of money in Uzbekistan.

Productnoun

Illegal drugs, especially cocaine, when viewed as a commodity.

‘I got some product here – you buying?’;

Sumverb

(transitive) To add together.

Productnoun

Anything that is produced, whether as the result of generation, growth, labor, or thought, or by the operation of involuntary causes; as, the products of the season, or of the farm; the products of manufactures; the products of the brain.

‘There are the productOf those ill-mated marriages.’; ‘These institutions are the products of enthusiasm.’;

Sumverb

(transitive) To give a summary of.

Productnoun

The number or sum obtained by adding one number or quantity to itself as many times as there are units in another number; the number resulting from the multiplication of two or more numbers; as, the product of the multiplication of 7 by 5 is 35. In general, the result of any kind of multiplication. See the Note under Multiplication.

Sumpronoun

eye dialect of some

Productverb

To produce; to bring forward.

Sumdeterminer

eye dialect of some

Productverb

To lengthen out; to extend.

‘He that doth much . . . products his mortality.’;

Sumnoun

The aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars; the amount or whole of any number of individuals or particulars added together; as, the sum of 5 and 7 is 12.

‘Take ye the sum of all the congregation.’;

Productverb

To produce; to make.

Sumnoun

A quantity of money or currency; any amount, indefinitely; as, a sum of money; a small sum, or a large sum.

‘With a great sum obtained I this freedom.’;

Productnoun

commodities offered for sale;

‘good business depends on having good merchandise’; ‘that store offers a variety of products’;

Sumnoun

The principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the amount; the substance; compendium; as, this is the sum of all the evidence in the case; this is the sum and substance of his objections.

Productnoun

an artifact that has been created by someone or some process;

‘they improve their product every year’; ‘they export most of their agricultural production’;

Sumnoun

Height; completion; utmost degree.

‘Thus have I told thee all my state, and broughtMy story to the sum of earthly bliss.’;

Productnoun

a consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances;

‘skill is the product of hours of practice’; ‘his reaction was the product of hunger and fatigue’;

Sumnoun

A problem to be solved, or an example to be wrought out.

‘A sum in arithmetic wherein a flaw discovered at a particular point is ipso facto fatal to the whole.’; ‘A large sheet of paper . . . covered with long sums.’;

Productnoun

a chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction;

‘a product of lime and nitric acid’;

Sumverb

To bring together into one whole; to collect into one amount; to cast up, as a column of figures; to ascertain the totality of; - usually with up.

‘The mind doth value every moment, and then the hour doth rather sum up the moments, than divide the day.’;

Productnoun

a quantity obtained by multiplication;

‘the product of 2 and 3 is 6’;

Sumverb

To bring or collect into a small compass; to comprise in a few words; to condense; - usually with up.

‘"Go to the ant, thou sluggard," in few words sums up the moral of this fable.’; ‘He sums their virtues in himself alone.’;

Productnoun

the set of elements common to two or more sets;

‘the set of red hats is the intersection of the set of hats and the set of red things’;

Sumverb

To have (the feathers) full grown; to furnish with complete, or full-grown, plumage.

‘But feathered soon and fledgeThey summed their pens [wings].’;

Sumnoun

a quantity of money;

‘he borrowed a large sum’; ‘the amount he had in cash was insufficient’;

Sumnoun

a quantity obtained by addition

Sumnoun

the final aggregate;

‘the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered’;

Sumnoun

the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience;

‘the gist of the prosecutor's argument’; ‘the heart and soul of the Republican Party’; ‘the nub of the story’;

Sumnoun

the whole amount

Sumnoun

the basic unit of money in Uzbekistan

Sumnoun

a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets;

‘let C be the union of the sets A and B’;

Sumverb

be a summary of;

‘The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper’;

Sumverb

determine the sum of;

‘Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town’;

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