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# amount

noun (amount, amounts); verb (amount, amounts, amounted, amounting — amount to)

«amount» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. An amount is how much there is of something. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amount/#m1)
2. An amount is a sum of money. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amount/#m2)
3. To amount to is to add up to a total, or to be the same as. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amount/#m3)

### In the lessons

a quantity, often of money, time or stuff; the unknown in many questions; in science, the amount of water or light; phrases «a large amount», «a small amount», «the same amount», «amount to»

### Examples

- What is the total amount of money? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amount/#x1)
- She paid the same amount each week. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amount/#x2)
- He spent an amount of 25 dollars. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amount/#x3)
- Find the amount of water left. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amount/#x4)
- Plants need the right amount of sunlight. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amount/#x5)
- The bill amounted to 40 dollars. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amount/#x6)
- Use a small amount of glue. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amount/#x7)
- A large amount of snow fell overnight. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amount/#x8)
- They gave the same amount of time to each game. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amount/#x9)
- His excuses amount to nothing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amount/#x10)
- The amount is six bushels--just what you have. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amount/#x11)

### Note

Names the quantity asked for; no operation by itself. Trap: «the same amount» means equal parts, often a clue to divide or multiply. Use «amount of» with uncountable things (amount of water); with countable things say «number of» (number of cars).

## In Jewish tradition

a quantity, often of money, time or stuff; the unknown in many questions; in science, the amount of water or light; phrases «a large amount», «a small amount», «the same amount», «amount to»

### Examples

- The Hebrew letters amount in nimieration to 440, that is 400, 30 and i o. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/amount/#x1)
- And he made the most holy place; the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents. (Writings 2CH.3.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/amount/#x2)

### Note

Names the quantity asked for; no operation by itself. Trap: «the same amount» means equal parts, often a clue to divide or multiply. Use «amount of» with uncountable things (amount of water); with countable things say «number of» (number of cars).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «amount» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amount/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«amount» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/amount.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «amount» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/amount/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«amount» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/amount.html) on Mova free.