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Amount vs Skerrick - What's the difference?

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Amount is a related term of skerrick.


As nouns the difference between amount and skerrick

is that amount is the total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard english) while skerrick is (british) a very small amount or portion, particularly used in the negative and chiefly in british and australian english.

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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    • , 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

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    skerrick

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British) A very small amount or portion, particularly used in the negative and chiefly in British and Australian English.
  • * 2007, Kennedy Warne, Blue Haven , National Geographic (April 2007), 74,
    • "And all I can think is that they're seeing a crumb, a skerrick of what it once was".