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Amount vs. Total — What's the Difference?

Amount vs. Total — What's the Difference?

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Amount

A quantity of something, especially the total of a thing or things in number, size, value, or extent
The substance is harmless if taken in small amounts
Sport gives an enormous amount of pleasure to many people

Total

Comprising the whole number or amount
A total cost of £4,000

Amount

Come to be (the total) when added together
Losses amounted to over 10 million pounds

Total

Complete; absolute
A total stranger
It is a matter of total indifference to me

Amount

The total of two or more quantities; the aggregate.
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Total

The whole number or amount of something
In total, 200 people were interviewed
He scored a total of thirty-three points

Amount

A number; a sum.

Total

Amount in number to
They were left with debts totalling £6,260

Amount

A principal plus its interest, as in a loan.

Total

Damage (something, typically a vehicle) beyond repair; wreck
He almost totalled the car

Amount

The full effect or meaning; import.

Total

An amount obtained by addition; a sum.

Amount

Quantity
A great amount of intelligence.

Total

The whole amount of something; the entirety
The storm damaged the total of the housing units.

Amount

To add up in number or quantity
The purchases amounted to 50 dollars.

Total

Of, relating to, or constituting the whole amount; entire
The total population of the city.

Amount

To add up in import or effect
That plan will never amount to anything.

Total

Complete; utter; absolute
Total concentration.
A total effort.
A total fool.

Amount

To be equivalent or tantamount
Accusations that amount to an indictment.

Total

To determine the total of; add up
They totaled the applications at 600.

Amount

The total, aggregate or sum of material not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English.
The amount of atmospheric pollution threatens a health crisis.

Total

To equal a total of; amount to
The week's receipts totaled more than $90,000.

Amount

A quantity or volume.
Pour a small amount of water into the dish.
The dogs need different amounts of food.

Total

To wreck completely; demolish
The driver survived the crash but totaled the car.

Amount

The number (the sum) of elements in a set.

Total

To add up; amount
It totals to $25.

Amount

To total or evaluate.
It amounts to three dollars and change.

Total

An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.
A total of £145 was raised by the bring-and-buy stall.

Amount

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

Total

Sum.
The total of 4, 5 and 6 is 15.

Amount

To go up; to ascend.

Total

Entire; relating to the whole of something.
The total book is rubbish from start to finish.
The total number of votes cast is 3,270.

Amount

To go up; to ascend.
So up he rose, and thence amounted straight.

Total

(used as an intensifier) Complete; absolute.
He is a total failure.

Amount

To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come (to) in the aggregate or whole; - with to or unto.

Total

(mathematics) (of a function) Defined on all possible inputs.
The Ackermann function is one of the simplest and earliest examples of a total computable function that is not primitive recursive.

Amount

To rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (to); as, the testimony amounts to very little.

Total

(transitive) To add up; to calculate the sum of.
When we totalled the takings, we always got a different figure.

Amount

To signify; to amount to.

Total

To equal a total of; to amount to.
That totals seven times so far.

Amount

The sum total of two or more sums or quantities; the aggregate; the whole quantity; a totality; as, the amount of 7 and 9 is 16; the amount of a bill; the amount of this year's revenue.

Total

To demolish; to wreck completely. (from total loss)
Honey, I’m OK, but I’ve totaled the car.

Amount

The effect, substance, value, significance, or result; the sum; as, the amount of the testimony is this.
The whole amount of that enormous fame.

Total

(intransitive) To amount to; to add up to.
It totals nearly a pound.

Amount

How much of something is available;
An adequate amount of food for four people

Total

Whole; not divided; entire; full; complete; absolute; as, a total departure from the evidence; a total loss.

Amount

A quantity of money;
He borrowed a large sum
The amount he had in cash was insufficient

Total

The whole; the whole sum or amount; as, these sums added make the grand total of five millions.

Amount

How much there is of something that you can quantify

Total

To bring to a total; also, to reach as a total; to amount to.

Amount

A quantity obtained by addition

Total

To determine the total of (a set of numbers); to add; - often used with up; as, to total up the bill.

Amount

Be tantamount or equivalent to;
Her action amounted to a rebellion

Total

To damage beyond repair; - used especially of vehicles damaged in an accident; as, he skid on an ice patch and totaled his Mercedes against a tree. From total loss.

Amount

Add up in number or quantity;
The bills amounted to $2,000
The bill came to $2,000

Total

The whole amount

Amount

Develop into;
This idea will never amount to anything
Nothing came of his grandiose plans

Total

A quantity obtained by addition

Total

Add up in number or quantity;
The bills amounted to $2,000
The bill came to $2,000

Total

Determine the sum of;
Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town

Total

Constituting the full quantity or extent; complete;
An entire town devastated by an earthquake
Gave full attention
A total failure

Total

Including everything;
The overall cost
The total amount owed

Total

Without conditions or limitations;
A total ban

Total

Complete in extent or degree and in every particular;
A full game
A total eclipse
A total disaster

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