Everything vs Amount - What's the difference?
everything | amount |
(literally) All the things under discussion.
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, title= (colloquial) Many or most things.
(colloquial) A state of well-being (from all parts of the whole ).
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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, title= The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
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To total or evaluate.
To be the same as or equivalent to.
(obsolete) To go up; to ascend.
* Spenser
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
English
(wikipedia everything)Pronoun
(English Pronouns)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.}}
Synonyms
* allAntonyms
* nothingDerived 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)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.