Word Finder - amount

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

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The amount of atmospheric pollution threatens a health crisis.

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A quantity or volume.

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Pour a small amount of water into the dish.

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(sometimes proscribed) The number (the sum) of elements in a set.

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(followed by to) To total or evaluate.

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It amounts to three dollars and change.

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(followed by to) To be the same as or equivalent to.

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He was a pretty good student, but never amounted to much professionally.

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To go up; to ascend.

It makes a certain amount of sense.

Unfortunately, life gets in the way a fair amount of the time.

His note pad was ever present and he spent a considerable amount of time on the phone.

She understood why he liked the spot; the scent of honeysuckle and herbs was thick in the air, the manicured gardens pleasant to look at and the awning providing the right amount of cool shade from the midmorning Georgia sun.

They are yet to assess the amount of damage to the heart.

If any clothing was missing, the amount was small.

His words were spoken with an unusual amount of venom.

We cannot track them in the mortal world until they use a substantial amount of magic.

In fact, we don't simply buy more government, but we give it a disproportionate amount of our increased income.

No amount of make-up could ever cover it up either.

We only paid— Claire cut her off and repeated the amount.

The amount of this pressure is regulated by the screw z'.

The difficulties of the harbour were increased by the continued silting up, produced by the enormous amount of solid material brought down by the river.

The crown has a fall which may amount to as much as 18 in.

Hence the Mediterranean region is characteristically one of winter rains, the distinctive feature becoming less sharply defined from south to north, and the amount of total annual fall increasing in the same direction.

If an air-tight receptacle is not available, a small percentage of powdered carbon is added to the zinc-dust, to prevent increase in the amount of oxide, which, if present in excess, tends to make the deposit dull.

Ostia thus lost a considerable amount of its trade, but its importance still continued to be great.

The value of the total amount of stone produced in 1908 in Vermont was $7,152,624.

The value of oak bark depends upon the amount of tannin contained in it, which varies much, depending not only on the growth of the tree but on the care bestowed on the preparation of the bark itself, as it soon ferments and spoils by exposure to wet, while too much sun-heat is injurious.

From his views on centrifugal force he deduced the oblate figure of the earth, estimating its compression, however, at little more than one-half its actual amount.

The anchorage is safe, and the bay full of fish; the harbour has a certain amount of trade.

Whilst no small amount of observational work has been done in these new branches of atmospheric electricity, the science has still not developed to a considerable extent beyond preliminary stages.

On the 5th of March 1440-1441, the king endowed the college out of alien priories with some scpc, a year, almost exactly the amount of the original endowment of Winchester.

Thus the smallest rotation of either head communicates to the corresponding slide motion, which, if the screws are accurate, is proportional to the amount through which the head is turned.

The gas contains a certain amount of hydrogen and oxides of carbon, also traces of nitrogen.

Practically all the company's servants were traders in their private capacity, and as they claimed various privileges and exemptions this system was detrimental to the interests of the native princes and gave rise to an enormous amount of corruption.

On the other hand, these stoves need a considerable amount of attention in filling, trimming and cleaning, and there is some risk of explosion and damage by accidental leaking and smoking.

All these methods warm chiefly by means of convected heat, the amount of true radiation from the pipes being small.

The tank should be of a size to hold not less than a twentieth part of the total amount of water held in the system.

This is not so, for his will (Memoirs, p. 427) shows that besides his large estates he left a considerable amount of personal property.

The existing system of taxation also presses heavily upon the provinces, as may be seen from the fact that the national, provincial and municipal exactions together amount to £7 per head of population, while the total value of the exports in 1898 was only L6 in round numbers.

During the era of so-called " prosperity " between 1881 and 1890 an enormous amount of bank notes were issued under various authorizations, especially that of the " free banking law " of 1887.

Where the amount exceeds 12 but not 24 an appeal lies from his decision to the court of first instance.

The letters carried amount to about 80 per head, the newspapers to 32 per head and the packets to 15 per head.

These were due to an enormous amount of exceedingly fine dust blown to a great height by that terrific explosion, and then universally diffused by the high atmospheric currents.

Straw-plaiting is a considerable industry at Lacco; and a certain amount of fishing is also done.

Tuition in the institute is free; board and living cost $8.50 a month; day students are allowed to "work-out" $1.50-$3.00 a month of this amount, and night students may thus pay all their expenses.

Murray's calculations give the amount of precipitation received on this area at 15,800 cub.

The terrigenous deposits consist of blue muds, red muds (abundant along the coast of Brazil, where the amount of organic matter present is insufficient to reduce the iron in the matter brought down by the great rivers to produce blue muds), green muds and sands, and volcanic and coral detritus.

When a debtor tenders the amount due to his creditor and the creditor refuses to accept, the debt is not discharged, but if the debtor is subsequently sued for the debt and continues willing and ready to pay, and pays the amount tendered into court, he can recover his costs in the action.

A creditor is not bound to give change to the debtor, whose duty it is to make tender in lawful money the whole amount due, or more, without asking for change.

Albert never visited the Holy Land, but he appears to have had a considerable amount of intercourse with returned crusaders, and to have had access to valuable correspondence.

If we raise i lb of matter through a foot we do a certain amount of work against the earth's attraction; if we raise 2 lb through the same height we do twice this amount of work, and so on.

Hence it is not surprising that, in those more subtle forms in which energy cannot be readily or completely converted into work, the universality of the principle of energy, its conservation, as regards amount, should for a long while have escaped recognition after it had become familiar in pure dynamics.

The smoother we make the pulley the more nearly does the amount of useful work which the weight is capable of doing approach ro foot-pounds, and if we take into account the work done against the friction of the pulley, we may say that the work done by the descending weight is ro foot-pounds, and hence when the weight is in its elevated position we have at disposal r o foot-pounds more energy than when it is in the lower position.

The system consisting of the earth and the pound therefore possesses an amount of energy which depends on the relative positions of its two parts, on account of the latent physical connexion existing between them.

Rumford was engaged in superintending the boring of cannon in the military arsenal at Munich, and was struck by the amount of heat produced by the action of the boring bar upon the brass castings.

P. Joule to achieve; his experiments conclusively prove that heat and energy are of the same nature, and that all other forms of energy can be transformed into an equivalent amount of heat.

Hence he inferred that the amount of heat given up to the condenser of an engine when the engine is doing work must be less than when the same amount of steam is blown through the engine without doing any work.

In this experiment a great noise was produced, corresponding to a loss of energy, and Joule endeavoured to determine the amount of energy necessary to produce an equal amount of sound from the string of a violoncello and to apply a corresponding correction.