Answer and Sum

Answer

Answer noun - Something spoken or written in reaction especially to a question.

Sum and answer are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sum" instead a noun "Answer".

Sum

Sum noun - A complete amount of something.

Answer and sum are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Answer" instead a noun "Sum".

Mutual synonyms

How words are described

right right answer right sum
original original answer original sum
reasonable reasonable answer reasonable sum
real real answer real sum
Other adjectives: possible.

Both words in one sentence

  • The Neidermeyer Then, you subtract your casualties from their casualties, and "if the answer is a positive sum, it was a glorious victory".
  • Critical Research Failure The kids' movie Five Children and It features a scene in which an eccentric math teacher is about to discover that kid-related shenanigans have been going on, while one of the kids is desperately trying to distract him by finding the answer to a complicated sum.
  • Bonus Space On the Finn version, it depended on the format- in the first definition-based format, spinning a Joker tripled the question value (the sum of the amounts in the two other windows) and gave the player 15 seconds to answer as many as possible.
    Source: Bonus Space
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