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Amount vs Acount - What's the difference?

amount | acount |

As nouns the difference between amount and acount

is that amount is the total, aggregate or sum of material not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English while acount is misspelling of lang=en.

As a verb amount

is to total or evaluate.

amount

English

(Quantity)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
  • A quantity or volume.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author=(Leo Hickman)
    • , volume=189, issue=7, page=26, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= How algorithms rule the world , passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.
  • The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
  • * 2001 , Gisella Gori, Towards an EU right to education , page 195:
    • The final amount of students who have participated to mobility for the period 1995-1999 is held to be around 460 000.

    Derived terms

    * principal amount * notional amount

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To total or evaluate.
    • It amounts to three dollars and change.
  • To be the same as or equivalent to.
    • He was a pretty good student, but never amounted to much professionally.
    His response amounted to gross insubordination
  • (obsolete) To go up; to ascend.
  • * Spenser
    • So up he rose, and thence amounted straight.

    Derived terms

    * amount to

    See also

    * extent * magnitude * measurement * number * quantity * size

    External links

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    Anagrams

    * * 1000 English basic words

    acount

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1856, author=William Makepeace Thackeray, title=Burlesques, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=His banker's acount , I fear, is in a horrid state." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1883, author=George Washington Williams, title=History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2), chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=No objection could be made to her admission, except on acount of her complexion, and Miss Crandall decided to receive her as a pupil. }}