Capital vs Amount - What's the difference?
capital | amount |
(uncountable, economics) Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as steam shovels (equipment) and office buildings (structures).
(uncountable, business, finance) Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
(countable) A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.
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, title= (countable) The most important city in the field specified.
* 2010 September, Charlie Brennan, "Active Athletes", , ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 83:
(countable) An uppercase letter.
(countable, architecture) The uppermost part of a column.
(uncountable) Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
of prime importance
* Atterbury
* I. Taylor
Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation.
(British, dated) excellent
Involving punishment by death.
* Jonathan Swift
* Milton
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 517:
uppercase
Of or relating to the head.
* Milton
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
As nouns the difference between capital and amount
is that capital is capital while 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.capital
English
(wikipedia capital)Alternative forms
* capitall (obsolete)Noun
The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
- Hollywood is the film capital', New York the theater '''capital''', Las Vegas the gambling ' capital .
Usage notes
The homophone capitol refers only to a building, usually one that houses the legislative branch of a government, and often one located in a capital city.Synonyms
* (An uppercase letter) caps (in the plural), majusculeAntonyms
* (An uppercase letter) minusculeAdjective
(-)- a capital article in religion
- whatever is capital and essential in Christianity
- London and Paris are capital cities.
- That is a capital idea!
- many crimes that are capital among us
- to put to death a capital offender
- Some 1,600 priests were deported, for example, while the total number of capital victims of the military commissions down to 1799 was only around 150.
- One begins a sentence with a capital letter.
- Needs must the Serpent now his capital bruise / Expect with mortal pain.
Antonyms
* (uppercase) lower-caseDerived terms
* block capitals * capital asset * capital goods * capitalism * capital punishment * capital ship * economic capital * financial capital * human capital * personal capital * real capital * social capitalReferences
* ----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.