The difference between Meat and Sum

When used as nouns, meat means the flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food, whereas sum means a quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.

Sum is also verb with the meaning: to add together.

check bellow for the other definitions of Meat and Sum

  1. Meat as a noun (uncountable):

    The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food.

    Examples:

    "A large portion of domestic meat production comes from animals raised on factory farms."

    "The homesteading teenager shot a deer to supply his family with wild meat for the winter."

  2. Meat as a noun (countable):

    A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.

    Examples:

    "The butchery's profit rate on various meats varies greatly."

  3. Meat as a noun (now, archaic, dialectal):

    Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also .

  4. Meat as a noun (now, rare):

    A type of food, a dish.

  5. Meat as a noun (now, archaic):

    A meal.

  6. Meat as a noun (uncountable):

    Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.

    Examples:

    "The apple looked fine on the outside, but the meat was not very firm."

  7. Meat as a noun (slang):

    A penis.

  8. Meat as a noun (colloquial):

    The best or most substantial part of something.

    Examples:

    "We recruited him right from the meat of our competitor."

  9. Meat as a noun (sports):

    The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).

    Examples:

    "He hit it right on the meat of the bat."

  10. Meat as a noun:

    A meathead.

    Examples:

    "Throw it in here, meat."

  11. Meat as a noun (Australian Aboriginal):

    A totem, or a clan or clansman which uses it.

  1. Sum as a noun:

    A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.

    Examples:

    "The sum of 3 and 4 is 7."

  2. Sum as a noun (often plural):

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

    Examples:

    "We're learning about division, and the sums are tricky."

  3. Sum as a noun:

    A quantity of money.

    Examples:

    "a tidy sum"

    "the sum of forty pounds"

  4. Sum as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "This is the sum of all the evidence in the case."

    "This is the sum and substance of his objections."

  5. Sum as a noun:

    A central idea or point.

  6. Sum as a noun:

    The utmost degree.

  7. Sum as a noun (obsolete):

    An old English measure of corn equal to the quarter.

  1. Sum as a verb (transitive):

    To add together.

  2. Sum as a verb (transitive):

    To give a summary of.

  1. Sum as a noun:

    The basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan.

  2. Sum as a noun:

    The basic unit of money in Uzbekistan.

  1. Sum as a pronoun (AAVE):

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