different between amount vs swatch

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sw?t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /sw?t?/, /sw?t?/
• Rhymes: -?t?

Etymology 1

From earlier Northern England dialectal swache (“the counterfoil or counterstock of a tally”) (1512); further etymology unknown. Cognate with Scots swach, swatch. Compare English swath, swathe. Compare also Old English swæcc (“taste; flavour; odour; fragrance”).

Noun

swatch (plural swatches)

1. A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth or a similar material.
2. A selection of such samples bound together.
3. (figuratively) A clump or portion of something.
4. (figuratively) A demonstration, an example, a proof.
5. (Northern England, obsolete) A tag or other small object attached to another item as a means of identifying its owner; a tally; specifically the counterfoil of a tally.
   • c. 1512, “The Booke of All the Directions and Orders for Kepynge of My Lordes Hous Yerely. X. ITEM The Articles Howe the Clerks of the Kechinge and Clerks of the Brevements Shall Order Them aswell Conssernynge the Brevements as for Seynge to the Officers in their Officis to be Kept Daylye Weikely Monthely Quarterly Halff-Yerely and Yerely”, in The Regulations and Establishment of the Houshold of Henry Algernon Percy, the Fifth Earl of Northumberland, at His Castles of Wresill and Lekinfield in Yorkshire. Begun Anno Domini M.D. XII, London: [s.n.], published 1770, ?OCLC; republished in Francis Grose, Thomas Astle, and other eminent antiquaries, compilers, The Antiquarian Repertory: A Miscellaneous Assemblage of Topography, History, Biography, Customs, and Manners. Intended to Illustrate and Preserve Several Valuable Remains of Old Times. [...] In Four Volumes, volume IV, London: Printed for and published by Edward Jeffery, No. 11, Pall-Mall, 1809, ?OCLC, page 73:

     ITEM that the said Clerkis of the Brevements entre all the Taillis of the Furniunturs in the Jornall Booke in the Countynghous every day furthwith after the Brede be delyveret to the Pantre and then the Stoke [i.e., main part] of the Taill to by delyveret to the Baker and the Swache to the Pantler. [...] ITEM that the said Clerkis of the Brevements entre all the Taills of the Brasyantors in the Jornall Booke in the Countynghous at every tyme furthwith after the Bere be delyveret into the Buttry and then the Stoke of the Taill to be delyveret to the Brewar and the Swatche to the Butler.

Translations

Verb

swatch (third-person singular simple present swatches, present participle swatching, simple past and past participle swatched)

1. To create a swatch, especially a sample of knitted fabric.

Etymology 2

Origin unknown; originally used chiefly in the East of England.

Noun

swatch (plural swatches)

1. (Britain) A channel or passage of water between sandbanks, or between a sandbank and a seashore.