different between amount vs component

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin comp?n?ns, comp?n?ntis, present participle of comp?n? (“assemble, put together”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /k?m?po?n?nt/

Noun

component (plural components)

1. A smaller, self-contained part of a larger entity. Often refers to a manufactured object that is part of a larger device.

Derived terms

• componentless
• per-component

Translations

Adjective

component (not comparable)

1. Making up a larger whole; as a component word.
2. Made up of smaller complete units in combination; as a component stereo.

Catalan

Verb

component

1. present participle of compondre

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English component or German Komponente, from Latin comp?n?ns, present participle of comp?n? (“assemble, put together”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?m.po??n?nt/
• Hyphenation: com?po?nent
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

component m (plural componenten, diminutive componentje n)

1. component

Synonyms

• onderdeel

Derived terms

• tweecomponentenlijm

Related terms

• componeren

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: komponen

Latin

Verb

component

1. third-person plural future active indicative of compon?

Romanian

Alternative forms

• (component): component?

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian componente, German Komponente, from Latin comp?n?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kom.po?nent/

Noun

component n (plural componente)

1. component

Declension

Noun

component m (plural componen?i, feminine equivalent component?)

1. member of a team or other group

Declension

Adjective

component m or n (feminine singular component?, masculine plural componen?i, feminine and neuter plural componente)

1. component

Declension