Tra từ amount - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

amount [amount amounts amounted amounting] noun, verb BrE [əˈmaʊnt] NAmE [əˈmaʊnt]
noun countable, uncountable
1. a sum of money
• The insurance company will refund any amount due to you.
• You will receive a bill for the full amount.
•Small amounts will be paid in cash.
2. ~ (of sth) (used especially with uncountable nouns)a quantity of sth
•an amount of time/money/information
• We've had an enormous amount of help from people.
• The server is designed to store huge amounts of data.

Word Origin:
Middle English (as a verb): from Old French amunter, from amont ‘upward’, literally ‘uphill’, from Latin ad montem. The noun use dates from the early 18th cent.

Thesaurus:
amount noun C, U
•huge amounts of data
•a bill for the full amount
quantity • • number • • sum • • volume •
the amount/quantity/number/volume of sth
a/an amount/quantity/volume of information
a/an amount/sum of money
a/an small/reasonable/considerable/large/huge amount/quantity/number/sum/volume
Amount, quantity or number? Amount is usually used with uncountable nouns; number is used with plural countable nouns
•a large amount of time/money/information
• a number of books/dogs/people
Quantity can be used with both countable and uncountable nouns and is slightly more formal.

Example Bank:
•He drank copious amounts of beer.
•Mix the colours in equal amounts.
•Tap water also contains varying amounts of rust and grit.
•The amount of reclaimed glass used in industry has doubled in the last five years.
•The average amount of pocket money received by teenagers fell to £4 a week this year.
•The average amount of sunshine fell this year.
•The sauce has just the right amount of salt.
•There was a fair amount of traffic on the roads.
•They want to limit the amount of cash available.
•You have a certain amount of freedom to explore new techniques.
•You must pay back the full amount of money that you owe.
•a considerable amount of money
•an amount equivalent to 0.3% per annum
•exposure to high amounts of oxygen
•There's been any amount of research into the subject.
•We've had an enormous amount of help from people.
Idioms: ↑any amount of something ▪ ↑no amount of something
Derived: ↑amount to something

verb
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Word Origin:
Middle English (as a verb): from Old French amunter, from amont ‘upward’, literally ‘uphill’, from Latin ad montem. The noun use dates from the early 18th cent.