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amount

English

Etymology

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 or to a mountain or heap), from Latin ad montem, from ad (to) + montem, accusative of mons (mountain).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: ?.mount', IPA(key): /??ma?nt/
  • Rhymes: -a?nt

Noun

amount (plural amounts)

  1. The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
  2. A quantity or volume.
  3. (nonstandard, sometimes proscribed) The number (the sum) of elements in a set.

Hyponyms

  • notional amount
  • principal amount

Derived terms

  • paramount

Translations

Verb

amount (third-person singular simple present amounts, present participle amounting, simple past and past participle 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.

Translations

See also

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

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • mantou, moutan, outman, tomaun

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duration

English

Etymology

From Middle English duracioun, from late Old French duracion, from Medieval Latin d?r?ti?.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /dj???e??n?/, /d????e??n?/
  • (US) IPA(key): /d???e??n?/, /dj???e??n?/
  • Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

duration (countable and uncountable, plural durations)

  1. An amount of time or a particular time interval.
  2. (in the singular, not followed by "of") The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the current war
  3. (finance) A measure of the sensitivity of the price of a financial asset to changes in interest rates, computed for a simple bond as a weighted average of the maturities of the interest and principal payments associated with it.

Translations

See also

  • Duration (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Bond duration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • dictionary.reference.com entry

Anagrams

  • drain out

Middle French

Etymology

From late Old French duracion, borrowed from Latin d?r?ti?, d?r?ti?nem.

Noun

duration f (plural durations)

  1. duration (length with respect to time)

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