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amount | amoung |

As a noun amount

is the total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard english).

As a verb amount

is to total or evaluate.

As a preposition amoung is

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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

    amoung

    English

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1838, author=American Anti-Slavery Society, title=The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He looked round amoung the slaves again, and inquired for Harry.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1924, author=Samuel Derieux, chapter=The Trial in Tom Belchers' Store, title=O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 citation
    • , passage=There was a slight shuffling movement amoung the men crowded about.}}
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