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語源

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 または to a mountain または heap”), from Latin ad montem, from ad (“to”) + montem, accusative of mons (“mountain”).

発音

• enPR: ə.mount', IPA^(key): /əˈmaʊnt/, X-SAMPA: /@"maUnt/
• 韻: -aʊnt

名詞

amount (複数形 amounts)

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

(Can we add an example for this sense?)

1. A quantity or volume.

   Pour a small amount of water into the dish.

   The dogs need different amounts of food.

2. (nonstandard, sometimes proscribed) The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
   • 2001, Gisella Gori, Towards an EU right to education, page 195:

     The final amount of students who have participated to mobility for the period 1995-1999 is held to be around 460 000.

派生語

• principal amount
• notional amount

動詞

amount (三人称単数 現在形 amounts, 現在分詞 amounting, 過去形および過去分詞形 amounted)

1. (intransitive, followed by to) To total or evaluate.

   It amounts to three dollars and change.

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

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

   His response amounted to gross insubordination

3. (obsolete, intransitive) To go up; to ascend.
   • Spenser

     So up he rose, and thence amounted straight.

派生語

• amount to

参考

• extent
• magnitude
• measurement
• number
• quantity
• size

外部リンク

• amount in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• amount in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• amount at OneLook Dictionary Search

アナグラム

• mantou
• outman