amount

«amount» in Mova's judaism dictionary: how much there is of something — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

1) An amount is how much there is of something. tree →

2) An amount is a sum of money. tree →

3) To amount to is to add up to a total, or to be the same as. tree →

sense 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

• The Hebrew letters amount in nimieration to 440, that is 400, 30 and i o. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
• 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 →
• What is the total amount of money? tree →
• She paid the same amount each week. tree →
• He spent an amount of 25 dollars. tree →
• Find the amount of water left. tree →
• Plants need the right amount of sunlight. tree →
• The bill amounted to 40 dollars. tree →
• Use a small amount of glue. tree →
• A large amount of snow fell overnight. tree →
• They gave the same amount of time to each game. tree →
• His excuses amount to nothing. tree →
• The amount is six bushels--just what you have. tree →

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 the corpora

• Pocket money is a small regular amount given to children to practise choosing, saving and making mistakes with money.
• A language model learned by predicting missing or next words in enormous amounts of text.
• Leatherback turtles eat huge amounts of jellyfish, and their throats are lined with spikes that keep the slippery food from sliding back out.
• Old forests with big trees store huge amounts of carbon and are home to many fungi and creatures.
• Some places add a small amount of fluoride to tap water to protect teeth.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «amount» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.