Rum vs. Sum — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Rum and Sum
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Rum
Rum is a liquor made by fermenting then distilling sugarcane molasses or sugarcane juice. The distillate, a clear liquid, is usually aged in oak barrels.
Sum
An amount obtained as a result of adding numbers.
Rum
An alcoholic liquor distilled from fermented molasses or sugarcane.
Sum
An arithmetic problem
A child good at sums.
Rum
Intoxicating beverages.
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Sum
The whole amount, quantity, or number; an aggregate
The sum of the team's combined experience.
Rum
Odd; strange.
Sum
An amount of money
Paid an enormous sum.
Rum
Presenting danger or difficulty.
Sum
A summary
My view of the world, in sum.
Rum
(uncountable) A distilled spirit derived from fermented cane sugar and molasses.
The Royal Navy used to issue a rum ration to sailors.
Sum
The central idea or point; the gist.
Rum
(countable) A serving of rum.
Jake tossed down three rums.
Sum
(Mathematics) To add.
Rum
(countable) A kind or brand of rum.
Sum
To give a summary of; summarize.
Rum
A queer or odd person or thing.
Sum
A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.
The sum of 3 and 4 is 7.
Rum
A country parson.
Sum
(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.
Rum
Any odd person or thing.
Sum
A quantity of money.
A tidy sum
The sum of forty pounds
Rum
(rare) The card game rummy.
Sum
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.
Rum
(obsolete) Fine, excellent, valuable.
Having a rum time
Sum
A central idea or point; gist.
Rum
Strange, peculiar.
A rum idea; a rum fellow
Sum
The utmost degree.
Rum
A kind of intoxicating liquor distilled from cane juice, or from the scummings of the boiled juice, or from treacle or molasses, or from the lees of former distillations. Also, sometimes used colloquially as a generic or a collective name for intoxicating liquor.
Sum
(obsolete) An old English measure of corn equal to the quarter.
Rum
A queer or odd person or thing; a country parson.
Sum
The basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan.
Rum
Old-fashioned; queer; odd; as, a rum idea; a rum fellow.
Sum
The basic unit of money in Uzbekistan.
Rum
Distilled from fermented molasses
Sum
A type of administrative district used in China, Mongolia, and Russia. In Mongolia, a sum is smaller than a province. In China, it is only used in Inner Mongolia, where it is equivalent to a township.
Rum
A card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards
Sum
(transitive) To add together.
Rum
Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected;
A curious hybrid accent
Her speech has a funny twang
They have some funny ideas about war
Had an odd name
The peculiar aromatic odor of cloves
Something definitely queer about this town
What a rum fellow
Singular behavior
Sum
(transitive) To give a summary of.
Sum
Eye dialect of some
Sum
Eye dialect of some
Sum
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.
Sum
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.
Sum
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.
Sum
Height; completion; utmost degree.
Thus have I told thee all my state, and broughtMy story to the sum of earthly bliss.
Sum
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.
Sum
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.
Sum
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.
Sum
To have (the feathers) full grown; to furnish with complete, or full-grown, plumage.
But feathered soon and fledgeThey summed their pens [wings].
Sum
A quantity of money;
He borrowed a large sum
The amount he had in cash was insufficient
Sum
A quantity obtained by addition
Sum
The final aggregate;
The sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered
Sum
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
Sum
The whole amount
Sum
The basic unit of money in Uzbekistan
Sum
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
Sum
Be a summary of;
The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper
Sum
Determine the sum of;
Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town
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