amount
IPA: ʌmˈaʊnt
noun
- The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
- A quantity or volume.
- (nonstandard, sometimes proscribed) The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
verb
- (intransitive, followed by to) To total or evaluate.
- (intransitive, followed by to) To be the same as or equivalent to.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To go up; to ascend.
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Examples of "amount" in Sentences
- It will display the amount and halt the program ... echo "amount: $amount"; exit;
- A certain amount is apportioned to each pastoral charge to be raised annually for this work.
- Upon a careful examination of my pockets, I find that I have not that amount _nor any other amount_ about my person.
- After Exxon posted their billion dollar profits for last quarter, I think HILLARY's idea to tax 50% on their profits over a certain amount is brilliant.
- When taxes are imposed upon incomes over a certain amount, the income that falls UNDER that amount is not taxed at the higher rate — it is only the amount OVER the threshold.
- Even if the Tag amount is just a placeholder for a trade and new contract, the leverage swings hard to Flynn for a strong contract either with the Packers or an acquiring team.
- When ( "user requests a $amount user license") do | amount | pending "Need to complete implementation for accessing C# object" end When ( "this does not include support") do pending
- PediaMed asserted that the two medications are not pharmaceutically equivalent because of differences in the amount of active ingredients and the variation from ideal accepted by Breckenridge 80%-120% of the label amount in any given batch, while PediaMed accepts only 90%-110%.
- Hesitant ever, she dared not name any amount of the Lord, but that ever present Spirit of God guided her heart, made her _fix the amount_, and then touched the heart of the stranger and fixed the amount also in his mind, and then, by his own guidance saved the letter from being lost, and behold! when opened the _prayer of the one and the gift of the other was the same_.
- Observations and experiments on decaying wood have been made, showing that the amount of heat developed by the combustion of a mass of wood, though much more intense for a time, is the same in _amount_ as that which is set free by the slower process of re-oxidation by gradual decay; both being the equivalent of the amount absorbed by the leaves from the sun, in the process of deoxidizing the carbon and hydrogen when the wood was formed.
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