different between amount vs piles

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?lz/

Etymology 1

Noun

piles

1. plural of pile

   Piles were sunk into the river to support the bridge.

Noun

piles pl (plural only)

1. (informal, piles of) A large amount of.

   He must earn piles of money.

Synonyms

• (informal: a large amount of): heaps of, loads of, mountains of, shedloads of, tons of

Translations

Verb

piles

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pile

Etymology 2

From Latin pila (“ball”).

Noun

piles pl (plural only)

1. (pathology) Haemorrhoids.
   • 1648, Robert Herrick, Hesperides, "Another":

     Who with thy leaves shall wipe (at need)

     The place where swelling Piles do breed ...

   Many women get piles when pregnant.

Translations

Anagrams

• Elpis, Lipes, Peils, Piels, Siple, plies, pliés, slipe, spiel, spile

Catalan

Noun

piles

1. plural of pila

Danish

Noun

piles c

1. indefinite genitive plural of pil

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pil/

Verb

piles

1. second-person singular present indicative of piler
2. second-person singular present subjunctive of piler

Noun

piles f

1. plural of pile

Anagrams

• plies

Latin

Verb

pil?s

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of pil?

Latvian

Noun

piles f

1. genitive singular form of pile
2. nominative plural form of pile
3. vocative plural form of pile

Portuguese

Verb

piles

1. second-person singular (tu) present subjunctive of pilar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) negative imperative of pilar

Spanish

Verb

piles

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) negative imperative form of pilar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of pilar.