Tra từ amount - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a huge amount/sum/quantity etc
▪ huge sums of money
a tremendous amount of
▪ This plan could save us a tremendous amount of money.
an amount/a length of time
▪ Customers only have a limited amount of time to inspect the goods.
an equal number/amount
▪ Both candidates received an equal number of votes.
considerable amount/number etc of sth
▪ We’ve saved a considerable amount of money.
copious amounts
▪ He could drink copious amounts of beer without ill effect.
double the amount/number/size etc
▪ We’ll need double this amount for eight people.
double the size/number/amount etc (of sth)
▪ A promise was given to double the number of police on duty.
enormous amount of
▪ an enormous amount of money
excessive amounts of sth
▪ I was staying up late, consuming excessive amounts of coffee.
generous amount/helping/measure etc
▪ a generous helping of pasta
inordinate amount
▪ Testing is taking up an inordinate amount of teachers’ time.
insignificant number/amount
large amounts
▪ those who drink large amounts of coffee
limited number/amount/time etc
▪ There are only a limited number of tickets available.
maximum amount/number etc
▪ Work out the maximum amount you can afford to spend.
modest amount
▪ She had saved a modest amount of money.
predetermined level/limit/amount etc
▪ a predetermined level of spending
prodigious amounts/quantities of sth
▪ Some galaxies seem to release prodigious amounts of energy.
sizeable amount/number
▪ a sizeable amount of money
small amount
▪ a small amount of money
the exact amount/number/figure
▪ I don’t know the exact amount, but it was a lot.
twice the size/number/rate/amount etc
▪ an area twice the size of Britain
varying amounts
▪ Tap water may contain varying amounts of rust, grit and silt.
vast amounts/numbers/quantities/sums etc (of sth)
▪ The government will have to borrow vast amounts of money.
▪ The refugees come across the border in vast numbers.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADJECTIVE
certain
▪ With a certain amount of ingenuity she can even use the balloon to steer herself by pointing it in various directions.
▪ This caused inconvenience and a certain amount of grumbling-what was taking so long?
▪ Therefore a certain amount of matching can always take place: contracts to buy can always be matched with contracts to sell.
▪ With a high turnover of owners, a certain amount of skepticism has been built into the rooms.
▪ They're contested, and require a certain amount of scientific literacy, which politicians seem to have even less of.
▪ No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of truth.
▪ A certain amount of violence occurred between supporters of Rauti and Fini.
▪ This calls for good spirits and good morale and also a certain amount of what was once called dogged determination.
considerable
▪ In these ways a considerable amount of knowledge of the landforms of the most explored regions has slowly accumulated.
▪ As is shown in Figures 15. 1c and 15. 2c, a considerable amount of waste crosses State lines.
▪ A&E staff spend a considerable amount of time in this type of work.
▪ There is, in fact, a considerable amount of intellectual insecurity in the press room.
▪ A considerable amount of time and money has been spent in pursuing the study of river basin dynamics.
▪ Conversely, the use of reliable and valid selection methods can save an organisation a considerable amount of money.
▪ But even after that long-winded exercise, a considerable amount remains.
▪ Ordinary people have lost a considerable amount of confidence in the authorities.
copious
▪ Great electrical bursts of dazzling blue and purple light explode behind copious amounts of dense smoke which obscures the entire stage.
▪ The most important thing you can do is to drink copious amounts of water.
▪ Her intestinal symptoms progressed and she vomited copious amounts of fluid every two to three hours.
▪ In one of my bags was a three-day supply of food and copious amounts of Pepto-Bismoj.
▪ He could drink copious amounts of beer without ill effect.
▪ No wonder Great Groups engage in water fights, drink copious amounts of beer, and arm wrestle.
enormous
▪ An enormous amount of detailed technical evidence on groundwater was presented during consideration of the earlier Bill.
▪ But what impressed me most was the enormous amount of sheer wasted space everywhere I happened to glance.
▪ There is an enormous amount of pressure on me.
▪ But, in fact, an enormous amount has been learned, particularly in the past ten years.
▪ In practice it involved an enormous amount of administration also.
▪ In that busy summer of 1933, Rice and his fellow academic utopians accomplished an enormous amount.
▪ The different approaches to industrial development have absorbed an enormous amount of resources and effort in the postwar period.
▪ WIiile they could work, those girls earned enormous amounts of money.
equal
▪ The first half was pretty even with both teams having equal amounts of play.
▪ The Port is considering supplying an equal amount.
▪ Approximately equal amounts of each are powdered and mixed together thoroughly.
▪ Top each with an equal amount of the yogurt and nutmeg.
▪ In spite of its quantitative sound, political equality never means having an equal amount of any chosen characteristic.
▪ Partners should contribute an equal amount of time to their business.
▪ The many gods do not share equal amounts of power.
▪ Rub spots with an equal amount of toothpaste and baking soda on a damp cotton cloth.
fair
▪ That involved a fair amount of travel.
▪ In the second generation this movement back and forth produced a fair amount of strain.
▪ Mr Broady painted a frightening picture of considerable violence and a fair amount of popular hostility to the police.
▪ People are taking the elections with a fair amount of cynicism.
▪ It prefers a fair amount of nutritious detritus.
▪ It may take hours to get it started, a fair amount of cursing and a few swift kicks.
▪ The local Station served the surrounding community and carried a fair amount of passenger and freight traffic.
▪ Thanks to the inherently leaky nature of the water industry, there is already a fair amount of information to go on.
full
▪ Or offer to pay what you think is fair - not the full amount.
▪ He says he found Scott had underbid one item by about $ 8, although it charged SunTran the full amount.
▪ The first woman spent the lot, the second spent half and banked the rest and the third invested the full amount.
▪ In other areas, social services will collect and pay the owner the full amount of money due.
▪ In other words the tax is not spread over previous transactions, but is charged on the full amount of the sale.
▪ Why he did not pay the full amount must remain a mystery.
▪ Parties will then negotiate as to whether once the limit is exceeded the full amount or merely the excess is claimable.
▪ And when she'd learned the full amount of the financial sums involved Laura hadn't felt too cheerful either.
great
▪ Darwin considered that male traits were strengthened by use and were transmitted in greater amounts to male offspring.
▪ Puebla has three hundred and sixty-five churches and in the world that is the greatest amount in one place.
▪ The follow-on P6 will represent an even greater though unstated amount of investment.
▪ By far the greatest amount of empirical research on democratic attitudes has been done in the United States.
▪ Employees posted to areas with a harsh climate generally receive greater amounts of leave than those in less severe climates.
▪ The more violent the oscillations the greater the amount of parasitic genetic material.
▪ Arcane bookkeeping procedures, however, probably conceal an even greater amount.
▪ Aristocrats may be rich and own a great amount of land, but they have no real power any more.
huge
▪ Surely even an idiot must realise that they wouldn't donate this huge amount out of the goodness of their hearts.
▪ This is a huge amount: cutting the work-week to four days would result in only a 20 percent reduction in commuting.
▪ They have become smaller, faster and able to store huge amounts of data.
▪ Seemingly minor calculations multiplied into huge amounts.
▪ The constituent parts of this promise do not seem to add up to a huge amount.
▪ The only answer is activity. Huge amounts of activity.
▪ Medicine differs from many other professions, however, in the huge amount of teaching expected from all of its practitioners.
▪ A final requirement is switching hardware and software to move huge amounts of data effortlessly over such a complex network.
inordinate
▪ Either keeping personal creditors accounts or making sundry creditors adjustments can consume inordinate amounts of administrative and accounting time.
▪ We were spending an inordinate amount of time sending people to different meetings and not knowing what was going on.
▪ In the Soviet context an inordinate amount of attention has been paid to the willed aims of Bolshevik leaders.
▪ But in reality, seat-side service is only feasible for those with teeny appetites and an inordinate amount of patience.
▪ That is why the social anthropologists are justified in devoting such an inordinate amount of attention to the field of kinship.
▪ But the Minnesota Timberwolves, who own the fifth pick, have shown an inordinate amount of interest in Nash.
▪ They devote an inordinate amount of time, effort and resource to developing high-calibre managers.
▪ We found ourselves spending an inordinate amount of time in the chariot, chasing hither and yon.
large
▪ Thaksin needs a large amount of funds if he is to honour the populist promises that got him elected.
▪ Drugs are pouring across in larger amounts.
▪ The letters can be chosen so that unwanted ones differ from the target by larger or smaller amounts.
▪ At some of the larger hotels the amount was said to approach six thousand.
▪ But major eruptions involve much larger amounts of energy.
▪ For one thing, digital photographs hold extraordinarily large amounts of data.
▪ Mr Goldring said Miss Lowe had been injected with a very large amount of insulin.
▪ Mitt Romney, the former Republican Senate nominee who contributed large amounts of his private fortune to his campaign against Sen.
limited
▪ The centres are essentially for advice and usually offer only a limited amount, if any, of further assistance.
▪ These notes are largely extracts and only contain a limited amount of comment.
▪ A major restriction in the cementation brass-making process was the limited amount of zinc which could be introduced into the alloy.
▪ The limited amount of discussion that members of the Working Party were able to hold with colleagues suggested a certain defensiveness.
▪ They are not capable of enjoying more than a limited amount of leisure.
maximum
▪ Accepted students will be informed in admission letters of the maximum amount required, which may be payable on enrolment.
▪ This is the maximum deductible amount for business mileage.
▪ But this is the fight that is going to give me the maximum amount of respect.
▪ No minimum or maximum amount has yet been set for what each system or eligible branch might receive.
▪ At the local level, too, there were calls for the maximum amount of latitude in self-administration.
▪ Their impeccable timing was usually designed to cause the maximum amount of ego deflation.
▪ This ensures that the maximum amount of pitch is available for landing.
▪ Nor does anybody know what the maximum amount of life-enhanced matter that our sun could support is.
right
▪ If your graphs and charts are showing an overall decrease in weight, then you know you are eating the right amounts.
▪ Definitive crust and right amount of chewiness inside.
▪ We can assess all the relevant factors for you, and produce the right amount of cash at the appropriate time.
▪ Endless bowls of hot tortilla chips are accompanied by a fresh salsa spiked with just the right amount of cilantro.
▪ If you inject the right amount you could feel like you had six glasses of your favourite tipple.
▪ In the spring they planted wheat and potatoes, and the weather was fine, with just the right amount of rain.
▪ Once the right amount is in the cylinder, another push on the lever sends the chemicals into the tank.
▪ Her secret combination of just the right amount of yeast, cinnamon and vanilla will never change, she said.
significant
▪ The presence of significant amounts of haemoglobin F has a protective effect against sickling and such individuals express relatively mild disease.
▪ Obviously, such a drastic revision created a significant amount of tension at the plant.
▪ In certain branches of engineering, liaison with clients and their sites can mean a significant amount of travelling for the engineer.
▪ Even after prolonged secondary hyperaldosteronism, human sweat still contains significant amounts of sodium.
▪ If there is a significant amount of blood in the urine.
▪ We should reclaim our leadership position by immediately sending a significant amount of food aid.
▪ Pumps in the backpack circulated water round the pipes without loosing significant amounts.
▪ Significant excretion of solute-free water can not occur unless significant amounts of solute and water reach this point.
small
▪ Orfe are ideal inhabitants for a planted pond, as they only eat small amounts of plant material.
▪ This means finding alternative routes to success, and it means measuring and treasuring success in small amounts.
▪ Better to feed small amounts at regular intervals.
▪ Cook over medium heat until a small amount dropped in cold water forms a ball.
▪ Even so, $ 50 million is a very small amount to reach six billion people.
▪ If necessary, add a small amount of milk to make spreading consistency.&038;.
▪ Earlier this month police in Brixton, south London, abandoned prosecuting people found with small amounts of the drug.
▪ It is desirable, therefore, to feed small amounts of food often rather than give them single large meals.
substantial
▪ Indeed, if you have followed through all the exercises in this book, you have done a substantial amount of work.
▪ We are continuing to examine evidence and following up on a substantial amount of information that we are receiving.
▪ Several Cowboys, most notably cornerback Deion Sanders, are due to receive substantial amounts of money that year.
▪ The actual outcome will almost certainly exceed this by a substantial amount.
▪ Conversely, many younger people will be the first generation in their family who can expect to inherit substantial amounts.
▪ Perhaps she would brighten up now that she had another substantial amount of cash to spend.
▪ BThe group has done a substantial amount of work that business owners appreciate.
tiny
▪ If you dislike the aroma, you have only wasted a tiny amount of essential oil.
▪ A tiny amount laced in a letter can be lethal.
▪ You will find a tiny amount will go a long way.
▪ In this form of diabetes, the pancreas stops making insulin or makes only a tiny amount.
▪ Garlic, for example, must only be used in tiny amounts or it will blister the skin.
▪ He takes the bottle from Julio, holds it close to his eyes and examines the tiny amount of rum remaining.
▪ Vitamins and minerals are only needed in tiny amounts for good health.
▪ A shower of debris including tiny amounts of blood from torn retinal vessels causes floaters.
tremendous
▪ I eat tremendous amounts of bread and jam and bowls of cornflakes with cold milk - delicious!
▪ Because each film will take up a tremendous amount of computer disk space, only one will be available at a time.
▪ Both games showed the tremendous amount of work needed in the Republic to restore the team to the top in international terms.
▪ Muddying the issue of how much pirated software is on the Internet is the tremendous amount of software legally available to download.
▪ There is also a tremendous amount of shared support amongst girls themselves.
▪ It creates a tremendous amount of conflict and dissatisfaction within the marriage.
▪ So I had a wonderful time filling in for him, and in the process learned a tremendous amount.
▪ Some high technology products require a tremendous amount of computer programming during the design phase.
vast
▪ Ocean racing is big business involving vast amounts of money.
▪ They were tying up vast amounts of capital in their trucking and warehousing operations.
▪ He said it cost a vast amount to build each new mile of motorway.
▪ The vast amounts of money are then laundered through the world's finance systems.
▪ The open choice of options accompanied by such a vast amount of student-centred learning provided challenges for both staff and students.
▪ He will simply rotate gently between the counter moving sheets. Vast amounts of labour will be saved.
▪ First, the state is now in charge of vast amounts of administrative and political information which is of direct relevance to individuals.
▪ The problem was more one of having to absorb a vast amount of information in a short space of time.
VERB
increase
▪ He was then able to start taking fluids by mouth in gradually increasing amounts.
▪ Simplifies tax filing for thousands of middle-income Californians by increasing the exemption amounts used in calculating the Alternative Minimum Tax.
▪ In addition, an expanding Kingston required increasing amounts of fruit and market garden produce which are currently the main products.
▪ In 1993, they increased the amount of merchandise purchased abroad by about 7 percent while holding the line on total purchasing.
▪ Staff will probably spend increasing amounts of time on devising simulations and developing assignments.
▪ And for fourteen years, Nucor had paid a dividend to its stockholders, increasing the amount of the dividend each year.
▪ Brown algae is generally an indication of quite low lighting levels and increasing the amount of light will overcome this problem.
▪ When those goals are respected, we may have the opportunity to spend increasing amounts.
limit
▪ But the response must be limited to the amount of force necessary to protect them.
▪ We want to limit the amount of time they are on there.
▪ It is these very services which can disable people, limiting the amount of real choice they have in their lives.
▪ He might also try to strictly limit the amount of time he spends there by scheduling other activities around his drinking.
▪ They limit the amount that has to be grasped in any one utterance.
▪ The second proposal would allow employees a limited amount of time off per year in return for working overtime.
▪ This constraint would effectively limit the amount of vehicles that a firm could service. 2.
▪ San Antonio agencies limit the amount of food dispensed and the number of people they serve, according to the survey.
raise
▪ We have raised more than the amount stipulated, and we plead with them to keep their side of the bargain.
▪ What is more, with the momentum his way the president is raising awesome amounts of money for Democratic campaigns.
▪ It seemed that we could just about raise the amount of the offer we had decided upon and still avoid bankruptcy.
▪ Dole flew on to Los Angeles for a dinner anticipated to raise a similar amount.
▪ For take-off the tail should only be raised a small amount.
▪ Both major parties raised large amounts of soft money for use during the presidential campaign.
▪ This ought in theory to have raised the amount demanded by Wolsey, but would have taken much longer to collect.
▪ These surface bursts raise vast amounts of dust.
reduce
▪ It copies its elders and, by holding to its own task, reduces the amount it has to remember.
▪ Superior Court Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki has 120 days to decide whether to reduce the money amounts.
▪ Of particular interest are genes that reduce the amount of a substance called lignin, or that weaken lignin's chemical structure.
▪ It also will reduce the amount of unrestricted stock to be issued in the transaction.
▪ This is supposed to reduce the amount of herbicide used in spraying fields, but in practice the converse happens.
▪ It would also reduce the amount of internal conflict we had within the organization.
▪ Pruning trees is a good way of controlling their growth, and reduces the amount of water extracted from the ground.
▪ The deficit also is growing because of an economic slowdown that has reduced the amount of taxes collected, government officials say.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a ball-park figure/estimate/amount
a fair size/amount/number/bit/distance etc
▪ But a fair number of them went on to greater things.
▪ It prefers a fair amount of nutritious detritus.
▪ Scientists must proceed cautiously, moving ahead only with the assent of a fair number of their colleagues.
▪ Thanks to the inherently leaky nature of the water industry, there is already a fair amount of information to go on.
▪ That involved a fair amount of travel.
▪ There was a fair amount going on.
▪ They'd have a fair bit of tidying up to do before they left.
▪ You may also be involved in a fair amount of travel.
a goodly number/sum/amount etc
▪ It seems fair to assume that she will attract the attention of a goodly number of our countrymen.
▪ Small Dave had spent a goodly amount of time impressing upon him the importance of finding a camel.
▪ The Thatcher Years have been splendid ones for a goodly number of golf members throughout this Royal and Ancient land of ours.
amount/come to the same thing
▪ And even if it is not significant, it has the potential to be so-which amounts to the same thing.
▪ And literature will amount to the same thing: all writers are copycats.
▪ At once she thought: I could have taken two thousand, three - it would come to the same thing.
▪ Or rather, politics and morality come to the same thing.
▪ Or they act as if they do, which comes to the same thing.
▪ Since it formed a halo over the puck, did that amount to the same thing?
▪ The public purse would not get anything; after all, it all comes to the same thing.
▪ When electrical currents flow they produce magnetic fields and so it is possible that these two therapies amount to the same thing.
it doesn't amount to a hill of beans
total number/amount/cost etc
▪ Additional disk space is a dollar or two per megabyte per month, depending on total amount.
▪ Microcell bid only in southern Ontario for a total cost of $ 19.2-million.
▪ Multiply the number of widths by the number of pattern repeats per drop to give the total number of pattern repeats required.
▪ The total amount of contributions and tax paid by each employee is entered on the P35.
▪ The total cost has been several million pounds more than budgeted.
▪ The total number of jobless rose to 615, 830 from 609, 670.
▪ The total number of registered voters was 1,732,000 aged 16 and over.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He expects to spend a similar amount on getting his daughter through college.
▪ He knows an enormous amount about Italian paintings.
▪ He was fined $300,000, an amount that would ruin the average householder.
▪ Heinz Co. acquired the ailing food company for an undisclosed amount.
▪ Please pay the full amount by the end of the month.
▪ She has a pension, and receives a small amount from her ex-husband.
▪ The amount of calories a person needs each day is determined by the type of work they do.
▪ The amount of car crime seems to be on the increase.
▪ The amount of tax you pay depends on how much you earn.
▪ The judge reduced the amount of money awarded to the victim.
▪ The water here contains small amounts of calcium and other minerals.
▪ There is growing alarm at the amount of violence on the streets of our city.
▪ Try to reduce the amount of fat in your diet.
▪ We spent an astonishing amount of money in town today.
▪ Work out the amount you spend each month on food and clothes.
▪ You must pay the full amount in advance.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Children love to feed the fish, but you must make sure they understand the importance of giving the right amount.
▪ Losers are often very numerous and lose large amounts of their income.
▪ Marshall had taken to calling it the rumour factory because a disproportionate amount of time seemed to be wasted on chatter.
▪ Of particular interest are genes that reduce the amount of a substance called lignin, or that weaken lignin's chemical structure.
▪ The pillars of coal left behind were compressed, releasing large amounts of an explosive mixture of air and methane called firedamp.
▪ There seemed to be no limit to the amount of alcohol the jar would produce.
▪ They spent small amounts of money on load limitation experiments, but decided to do nothing.
▪ This is because the key factor in their diet is the amount of seafood they eat daily.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But human ingenuity and intelligence, plus what may amount to an instinct for symbolism, comes to the rescue.
▪ During 1981 - 2, three instalments were issued amounting to more than 2000 pages.
▪ For within market relations two new kinds of control, amounting in some cases to dominance, have become apparent.
▪ However, opponents charge that the new Internet regulations amount to unconstitutional censorship that would criminalize expression protected by the First Amendment.
▪ It is uncertain whether words alone can amount to an assault.
▪ She is now unable to work and receives benefits, including invalidity benefit, amounting to approximately £90.00 per week.
▪ Without that, no talks will ever amount to more than the briefest of encounters.

amount

I. a‧mount¹ S1 W1 /əˈmaʊnt/ noun [UNCOUNTABLE AND COUNTABLE]
1. a quantity of something such as time, money, or a substance
amount of
　 ▪ They spend equal amounts of time in California and New York.
a considerable/large/enormous etc amount
　 ▪ a considerable amount of money
a small/tiny etc amount
　 ▪ a tiny amount of dirt
　 ▪ Please pay the full amount (=of money) by the end of the month.

2. used to talk about how much there is of a feeling or quality
a large/considerable etc amount of something
　 ▪ Her case has attracted an enormous amount of public sympathy.
a certain/fair amount of something
　 ▪ Dina encountered a fair amount of envy among her colleagues.

3. no amount of something can/will etc do something
used to say that something has no effect:
　 ▪ No amount of persuasion could make her change her mind.

4. any amount of something
used to say that there is plenty of something, and no more is needed:
　 ▪ The school has any amount of resources and equipment.
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THESAURUS
▪amount how much of something there is :
　 ▪ Try to reduce the amount of fat in your diet.
　 ▪ a tiny amount of poison
▪quantity a particular amount of food, liquid, or another substance that can be measured – used especially in written descriptions and instructions :
　 ▪ Make sure that you add the right quantity of milk.
　 ▪ They buy the wood in large quantities.
▪volume the amount of something such as business activity or traffic, especially when this is large or increasing :
　 ▪ The volume of traffic on our roads has risen sharply.
　 ▪ the huge volume of trade with China
▪level the exact amount of something at one time, which can go up or down at other times :
　 ▪ They measured the level of alcohol in his blood.
　 ▪ There is a high level of unemployment.
▪proportion the amount of something, compared with the whole amount that exists :
　 ▪ the proportion of road accidents caused by drunk drivers
　 ▪ A high proportion of the students were from poor families.
▪quota a maximum amount of something that can be produced, sold, brought into a country etc :
　 ▪ import quotas on Japanese cars
▪yield /jiːld/ the amount of something that is produced, especially crops :
　 ▪ this year’s cotton yield

II. amount² verb
[date : 1300-1400; Language : Old French; Origin : amonter, from amont 'upward', from mont 'mountain']
amount to something phrasal verb
1. if figures, sums etc amount to a particular total, they equal that total when they are added together:
　 ▪ Time lost through illness amounted to 1,357 working days.

2. if an attitude, remark, situation etc amounts to something, it has the same effect:
　 ▪ The court’s decision amounts to a not guilty verdict.
　 ▪ Ultimately, their ideas amount to the same thing.

3. not amount to much/anything/a great deal etc
to not be important, valuable, or successful:
　 ▪ Her academic achievements don’t amount to much.
　 ▪ Jim’s never going to amount to much.