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Amount vs Applicatorful - What's the difference?

amount | applicatorful |

As nouns the difference between amount and applicatorful

is that amount is the total, aggregate or sum of material not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English while applicatorful is the amount that will fill an applicator.

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.
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  • 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

    applicatorful

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The amount that will fill an applicator
  • * 1992 , The New Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book by and for Women , Boston Women's Health Book Collective [http://books.google.com/books?id=dGxqAAAAMAAJ&q=applicatorful&dq=applicatorful&lr=&ei=HYjISJ6AFpzitAOXsrWpDQ&pgis=1]
    • "When using with a condom, put an applicatorful of spermicide inside the vagina before sexual intercourse"
  • * 2002 , Corpse de Ballet: A Nine Muses Mystery: Terpsichore , Ellen Pall [http://books.google.com/books?id=u68HvRhobb0C&pg=RA2-PA240&dq=applicatorful&lr=&ei=U4fISITrMY3SiwGd5bDzCw&sig=ACfU3U0Y_vhx-UbJWTkFwJJe_0TU48EKiQ]
    • "Another phone call informed her that there was indeed a dance collection of such files, too; an hour later (pausing only long enough to use an applicatorful of the newly delivered Monistat), and the hell with whether you were supposed to star horizontal."
  • * 2002 , Atlas of Emergency Medicine , Kevin J. Knoop [http://books.google.com/books?id=c5dn3yh4V5UC&pg=PA484&dq=applicatorful&ei=joXISIyxI4zgiQHm3NHLCg&sig=ACfU3U1MU9vE3ehgysipAMvGi7M1EceJ1g]
    • "For candidal vaginitis , various regimens of topical antifungal agents are the mainstay of treatment (clotrimazole 1% cream, one applicatorful inserted high into the vaginal vault for 7 nights, clotrimazole, two 100-mg vaginal tablets for 3 nights or one 500-mg vaginal tablet for single-dose treatment)."
  • * 2003 , Varney's midwifery , Helen Varney [http://books.google.com/books?id=3-S2sYZlSdgC&pg=PA257&dq=applicatorful&lr=&ei=dobISOunMafKzAT5vpHgBA&sig=ACfU3U128T-GrQ3ZJ25RLGTrmd8KBYxYmA]
    • "If coitus does not take place within 60 minutes of insertion of the spermicidal preparation, insert another applicatorful before sexual intercourse if contraception is desired."