Amount vs Mountenance - What's the difference?
amount | mountenance |
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= The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
* 2001 , Gisella Gori, Towards an EU right to education , page 195:
To total or evaluate.
To be the same as or equivalent to.
(obsolete) To go up; to ascend.
* Spenser
(obsolete) A given amount, value, or extent of time or distance.
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.viii:
*:This said, they both a furlongs mountenance / Retyrd their steeds, to ronne in euen race [...].
As nouns the difference between amount and mountenance
is that amount is the total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard english) while mountenance is (obsolete) a given amount, value, or extent of time or distance.As a verb amount
is to total or evaluate.amount
English
(Quantity)Noun
(en noun)How algorithms rule the world, passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.
- 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 amountVerb
(en verb)- It amounts to three dollars and change.
- He was a pretty good student, but never amounted to much professionally.
- His response amounted to gross insubordination
- So up he rose, and thence amounted straight.
