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# amount

«amount» in Mova's school 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amount/#m1)

2) An amount is a sum of money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amount/#m2)

3) To amount to is to add up to a total, or to be the same as. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amount/#m3)

### 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

- What is the total amount of money? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amount/#x1)
- She paid the same amount each week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amount/#x2)
- He spent an amount of 25 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amount/#x3)
- Find the amount of water left. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amount/#x4)
- Plants need the right amount of sunlight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amount/#x5)
- The bill amounted to 40 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amount/#x6)
- Use a small amount of glue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amount/#x7)
- A large amount of snow fell overnight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amount/#x8)
- They gave the same amount of time to each game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amount/#x9)
- His excuses amount to nothing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amount/#x10)
- The amount is six bushels--just what you have. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amount/#x11)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/8/)
- [A language model learned by predicting missing or next words in enormous amounts of text.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/2-guessing-the-next-word/7/)
- [Leatherback turtles eat huge amounts of jellyfish, and their throats are lined with spikes that keep the slippery food from sliding back out.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/133-finding-nemo-dory-turtles-and-the-reef/13/)
- [Old forests with big trees store huge amounts of carbon and are home to many fungi and creatures.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/252-plants-deeper-do-trees-talk-fungi-warning-smells-and-giant-clones/20/)
- [Some places add a small amount of fluoride to tap water to protect teeth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/352-teeth-enamel-sugar-holes-brushing-and-the-dentist/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «amount» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amount/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.