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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | count, record |
| Synonyms: | account, mark, poll, reckoning, running total, score, summation, tab, total |
| Main Entry: | accord |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come to agreement |
| Synonyms: | affirm, agree, assent, be in tune, concur, conform, correspond, fit, harmonize, jibe, match, square, suit, tally |
| Notes: | something (a quality) is in accord with something else; something acts in accordance with something else (an activity) |
| Antonyms: | contest, deny, disagree, withhold |
| Main Entry: | account |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | record of finances, fees, or charges |
| Synonyms: | IOU, bad news, balance, bill, book, books, charge, check, computation, cuff, grunt*, inventory, invoice, ledger, reckoning, record, register, report, score, statement, tab, tally |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | add |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | simple arithmetical process of increase; accumulation |
| Synonyms: | calculate, cast, compute, count, count up, do addition, enumerate, figure, reckon, reckon up, sum, summate, tally, tot, tot up, total, tote |
| Notes: | ad is short for advertisement while add means 'to join or unite' so as to increase in size, quantity, quality, or scope |
| Antonyms: | subtract |
| Main Entry: | adjust |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bring into agreement or to a standard |
| Synonyms: | accord, allocate, arrange, clarify, conclude, conform, coordinate, doctor*, fiddle with, fine-tune, fix up, grade, methodize, modify, organize, reconcile, regulate, settle, sort, standardize, straighten, systematize, tally |
| Antonyms: | confuse, derange, unfit, unsuit |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | agree |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be similar or consistent |
| Synonyms: | accord, answer, attune, be in harmony, blend, click, cohere, coincide, concert, concord, concur, conform, consort, correspond, equal, fall in with, fit, get along with, go hand in hand, go together, go well with, harmonize, jibe, match, parallel, square, suit, synchronize, tally |
| Antonyms: | differ |
| Main Entry: | amount |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | equal, add up to |
| Synonyms: | aggregate, approach, approximate, be equivalent to, be tantamount to, become, check with, come to, correspond, develop into, effect, extend, grow, match, mean, number, purport, reach, rival, sum, tally, total, touch |
| Notes: | use 'amount' with things that cannot be counted but 'number' with things that can be counted number is regularly used with count nouns, while amount is mainly used with mass nouns: number of mistakes, amount of money |
| Main Entry: | balance |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make equal numerically |
| Synonyms: | adjust, audit, calculate, compute, count, enumerate, equate, estimate, figure, settle, square, sum up, tally, total |
| Antonyms: | unbalance |
| Main Entry: | ballot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | voting; recording of vote |
| Synonyms: | election, franchise, plebiscite, poll, polling, referendum, slate, tally, ticket |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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