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Everything vs Amount - What's the difference?

everything | amount |

As a pronoun everything

is all the things under discussion.

As a noun 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.

everything

Pronoun

(English Pronouns)
  • (literally) All the things under discussion.
  • *, chapter=4
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.}}
  • (colloquial) Many or most things.
  • (colloquial) A state of well-being (from all parts of the whole ).
  • Synonyms

    * all

    Antonyms

    * nothing

    Derived terms

    * everything and the kitchen sink * everything but the kitchen sink * everything else * everything happens for a reason * everything under the sun * * leave everything on the road * talk about everything under the sun * theory of everything * timing is everything (lookfrom)

    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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author=(Leo Hickman)
  • , 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