Significado de amount em inglês

amount

noun [ C ]

/əˈmaʊnt/ us

/əˈmaʊnt/

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a collection or mass, especially of something that cannot be counted:

amount of They didn't deliver the right amount of sand.

Small amounts of land were used for keeping animals.

He paid regular amounts of money to a charity.

The new tax caused a huge amount of public anger.

I had a certain amount of (= some) difficulty finding the house.

I didn't expect the bill to come to this amount (= of money).

You wouldn't believe the amount of trouble (= what a lot of trouble) I've had with this car.

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A dangerous amount of radioactivity was released into the environment last month.
Some theatres receive a small amount of funding from the state.
They were making a tremendous amount of noise last night.
She eats an unbelievable amount of food.
The total amount raised so far is approaching $1000.

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Gramática

Amount of, number of or quantity of?

We use amount of with uncountable nouns. Number of is used with countable nouns: …

Amount of or number of?

We use amount of with uncountable nouns. Number of is used with countable nouns: …

A quantity of or quantities of?

Quantity is more formal than amount or number. A quantity of or quantities of can be followed by a countable noun or an uncountable noun. They are most commonly used with an adjective such as huge, big, large, small: …

Idiomas

any amount of

no amount of

(Definição de amount do Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

amount | Dicionário Americano

amount

noun [ C ]

/əˈmɑʊnt/

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the degree to which something is a lot or a little; how much something is:

She’s made a tremendous amount of progress since the accident.

He liked to carry a large amount of money around with him.

Idioma

not amount to much

(Definição de amount do Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

amount | inglês para Negócios

amount

noun [ C ]

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MONEY

a quantity of money:

a large/small/considerable amount You can make a considerable amount for only a few hours' work.

a certain/particular amount Payments are limited to a certain amount.

pay/spend/raise an amount If everyone in the company contributed just $10, this would raise the amount needed.

She was so disappointed with the service she refused to pay the full amount.

I didn't expect the bill to come to this amount.

a quantity of something such as time, space, a substance, or a feeling:

an amount of sth They didn't deliver the right amount of sand.

large/small amounts Small amounts of land were used for keeping animals.

a considerable/significant/huge amount The new tax caused a huge amount of anger among small business owners.

Both solutions take about the same amount of time.

any amount of sth

a very large amount of something:

We had any amount of trouble finishing the job.

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Exemplos de amount

amount

The question is what the complex vs. non-complex distinction amounts to in structural terms.

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The decision of each court, then, amounted to a verdict about the family's history and identity.

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One older person said there was a real need for help with such tasks, and also with small amounts of help before a crisis occurred.

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First, rapid integration of large amounts of information is believed to occur in language processing, perception, motor control, and commonsense reasoning.

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The internet offers a rapid way to collect large amounts of data.

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However, this inference amounts to nothing more than the initial postulate, namely the existence of a continuum.

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How do cry acoustics and cry amounts independently affect parental responses?

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Moreover, under the experimental conditions of our assay, production of eggs, pupae and adults did not correlate with low amounts of acyl sugars.

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Summer-cut silages also contained relatively high amounts of propionic acid.

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The above remarks, amounting to no more than a sketch, do scant justice to the many works that have suggested new fields of contemporary historywriting.

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Towering above everything, however, is the colonial expropriation of vast amounts of the country's best land for white settlers.

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There was no toxicity demonstrated to canola seed meal in amounts up to 2000 mg in the 100 ml flask.

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The larvae were provided with weighed amounts of tomato leaf every two days.

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The books are selected on an international level, the foreign proportion amounting to approximately 70 per cent.

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The two groups began their programs with comparable scores and received near identical amounts of instructional time during the first two years of study.

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actual amount

Thus, it is very possible to give away more than half the actual amount.

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adequate amount

If perennials can fix an adequate amount of carbon to make them viable crops, the question becomes one of harvest index rather than trade-off.

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aggregate amount

The amount remaining after deducting the estimated amount of these specific grants is the aggregate amount of the rate support grant.

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（尤指不可數事物的）數量, 數額, 量…

Significado de amount em inglês

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