Amounted vs Mounted - What's the difference?
amounted | mounted |
(amount)
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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To total or evaluate.
To be the same as or equivalent to.
(obsolete) To go up; to ascend.
* Spenser
on horseback
(mount)
* 1883:
As verbs the difference between amounted and mounted
is that amounted is (amount) while mounted is (mount).As an adjective mounted is
on horseback.amounted
English
Verb
(head)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.
Derived terms
* amount toSee also
* extent * magnitude * measurement * number * quantity * sizeExternal links
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* * 1000 English basic wordsmounted
English
Adjective
(head)- The mounted cavalry rode into town.
Verb
(head)- As soon as I was mounted , holding on to Dogger's belt, the supervisor gave the word, and the party struck out at a bouncing trot...