AMOUNT

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Traducere în limba română

amount I. substantiv

1. sumă, total;

what is the amount of this? cât face (în total)?;

(up) to the amount of până la concurenţa sumei de.

2. cantitate;

a large amount of work multă muncă;

(fam.) any amount of o grămadă de, o groază de.

3. (fig.) semnificaţie, sens, importanţă, însemnătate, valoare;

the amount of the testimony is this acesta este sensul depoziţiei;

this fact is of little amount acest fapt este de mică însemnătate, este nesemnificativ.

amount II. verb intranzitiv

to amount to a) a atinge, a ajunge la, a se ridica la, a echivala cu, a fi egal cu;

the bill amounts to £ 40 socoteala se ridică la patruzeci de lire. b) (fig.) a fi egal cu, a echivala cu, a fi tot una cu;

this amounts to a refusal aceasta echivalează cu un refuz;

to amount to very little sau not to amount to much a avea puţină importanţă;

what, after all, does it amount to? la urma urmei, ce înseamnă asta? la ce se reduce asta?;

(amer.) it does not amount to a row / hill of beans / pins nu face nici cât o ceapă degerată; e o nimica toată;

(fam.) he will never amount to much n-o să facă niciodată nici o brânză, n-o să se aleagă nimic de capul lui.

The team found that the amount of water lost from within fractured mountain rock in 2011-2015 amounted to 10.8 cubic miles of water.

(Sierras Lost Water Weight, Grew Taller During Drought, NASA)

They had not touched the return-to-earth amount of fuel.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

Toxin binding changes its color from blue to red, and the intensity of red fluorescence increases with the amount of toxin bound.

(3-D gel-nanoparticle device detoxifies blood, NIH)

A condition in which a higher-than-normal amount of methemoglobin is found in the blood.

(Methemoglobinemia, NCI Dictionary)

And she began to count over the amount of the captain's score from the sailor's bag into the one that I was holding.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

They increased the amounts of the bets.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

He says the amount of responsibility which it puts upon him makes him nervous.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

This was the amount of the whole story,—of his communication and of Harriet's as soon as she had recovered her senses and speech.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

What is the amount of his fortune?

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

What did it amount to? Some photographs.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)