From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[Quantity]
*** Etymology
[en] From [en], from [en], from [fro], [fro], from the prepositional phrase
[fro], from [en], from [la] + [la], accusative of [la].
*** Pronunciation
- [ə.mount'] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
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*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. The total , aggregate or sum of material [not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English] .
2. A quantity or volume .
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|passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing
influence on our lives.[...]who, if anyone, is policing their use[?] Such
concerns were sharpened further by the continuing revelations about how the US
National Security Agency (NSA) has been using algorithms to help it interpret
the colossal AMOUNTS of data it has collected from its covert dragnet of
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1. [en] The number (the sum ) of elements in a set .
2. * [en]
**** Usage notes
- The use of _amount_ for countable things is often considered incorrect, with _number_ or _quantity_ being preferred in those contexts. Some go further by restricting _amount_ to immeasurable things (that is, things that one cannot put a specific quantity to, such as intangibles), and using _quantity_ for things that can be measured. [1] [2] [3] [4] However, when referring to something uncountable but measurable, the term _amount_ is so widespread that it is generally considered interchangeable with _quantity_ .
**** Hyponyms
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- [en] ( [en] , [en] )
**** Derived terms
{{col2|en |amount of substance |paramount}}
**** Translations
[total or sum of items]
- Albanian: [sq] , [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my] , [my] , [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da] , [da] [money] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] [money]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] [North Korea] , [ko]
- Kyrgyz: [ky] , [ky] , [ky] , [ky] , [ky]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Mongolian:
- Norwegian:
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl] , [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg] , [tg]
- Thai: [th] , [th] , [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk] , [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- ǃXóõ: [nmn]
[trans-bottom]
[quantity or volume]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Mongolian:
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] [of money]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[number of elements in a set]
[checktrans-top]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Interlingua: [ia] , [ia]
- Slovene: [sl] (2)
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Telugu: [te]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To total or evaluate .
2. [en] To be the tantamount to; to reach up to the level of.
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
5. [en] To go up ; to ascend .
6. * [book=I]
**** Translations
[to total or evaluate]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da] sig, [da] , være [da] , være [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- German: sich [de] auf, [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[to be the same as]
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Danish: [da]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Romanian: [ro]
[trans-bottom]
*** See also
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*** References
References:
[1]. {{ cite-web | author=Amy Bryan | title=
Commonly Confused Words: Amount vs. Number vs. Quantity | titleurl=https://www.bkacontent.com/gs-commonly-confused-words-amount-number-and-quantity/ | work=BKA | date=10 November 2021 | accessdate=21 June 2023 }}
[2]. [author=Craig Shrives]
[3]. [author=Manuel Rubina]
[4]. [titleurl=https://www.chegg.com/writing/guides/vocabulary/confusing-words/amount-vs-quantity-vs-number/]
*** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
- [R:OneLook]
*** Anagrams
- [en]