TOT (totted, totting)

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Irregular inflected forms: totted    , totting   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does tot mean? 

• TOT (noun)
  The noun TOT has 2 senses:

1. a small amount (especially of a drink)

2. a young child

  Familiarity information: TOT used as a noun is rare.

• TOT (verb)
  The verb TOT has 1 sense:

1. determine the sum of

  Familiarity information: TOT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small amount (especially of a drink)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Context example:

a tot of rum

Hypernyms ("tot" is a kind of...):

small indefinite amount; small indefinite quantity (an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A young child

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bambino; toddler; tot; yearling

Hypernyms ("tot" is a kind of...):

child; fry; kid; minor; nestling; nipper; shaver; small fry; tiddler; tike; tyke; youngster (a young person of either sex)

• TOT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Determine the sum of

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

add; add together; add up; sum; sum up; summate; tally; tot; tot up; total; tote up

Context example:

Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town

Hypernyms (to "tot" is one way to...):

count; enumerate; number; numerate (determine the number or amount of)

Verb group:

add; add together (make an addition by combining numbers)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

Can you do addition? Well, then, let us see if you can tot up my prize-money.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A correspondent writes us that to see some of the tiny tots pretending to be the "bloofer lady" is supremely funny.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)