amount

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//əˈmaʊnt//

The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).

nom

1
The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
The amount of atmospheric pollution threatens a health crisis.
2
A quantity or volume.
Pour a small amount of water into the dish.
The dogs need different amounts of food.
3
The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
The final amount of students who have participated to mobility for the period 1995-1999 is held to be around 460 000.

Étymologie

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Latin ad Old French a Proto-Indo-European *men- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *móntis Proto-Italic *monts Latin mōns Old French mont Old French amont Old French amonterbor. Middle English amounten English amount From Middle English amounten (“to mount up to, come up to, signify”), from Old French amonter (“to amount to”), from amont, amunt (“uphill, upward”), from the prepositional phrase a mont (“toward or to a mountain or heap”), from Latin ad montem, from ad (“to”) + montem, accusative of mons (“mountain”).

verbe

1
To total or evaluate.
The money in my pocket amounts to three dollars and change.
2
To be the tantamount to; to reach up to the level of.
He was a pretty good student, but never amounted to much professionally.
His response amounted to gross insubordination.
It was, however, J.R.R. Tolkien who pointed out the close relationship in language as well as spelling, almost amounting to identity, between the Corpus MS of the Ancrene Riwle (A) and the Bodley MS of the Katherine Group (B).
"The breadth of this LPR system is spectacular and amounts to a warrantless search."
3
obsolèteTo go up; to ascend.
So up he rose, and thence amounted straight.

Formes

pluriel: amounts
passé: amounted
participe passé: amounted
participe présent: amounting
3ᵉ personne du singulier: amounts

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amount · The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).

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