Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Amount"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Amount \A*mount"\, v. t.
To signify; to amount to. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Amount \A*mount"\, n.
1. 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.
2. The effect, substance, value, significance, or result; the
sum; as, the amount of the testimony is this.
The whole amount of that enormous fame. --Pope.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Amount \A*mount"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Amounted}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Amounting}.] [OF. amonter to increase, advance, ascend,
fr. amont (equiv. to L. ad montem to the mountain) upward, F.
amont up the river. See {Mount}, n.]
1. To go up; to ascend. [Obs.]
So up he rose, and thence amounted straight.
--Spenser.
2. To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or
quantities; to come (to) in the aggregate or whole; --
with to or unto.
3. To rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or
influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (to); as,
the testimony amounts to very little.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
amount
n 1: how much of something is available; "an adequate amount of
food for four people"
2: a quantity of money; "he borrowed a large sum"; "the amount
he had in cash was insufficient" [syn: {sum}, {sum of
money}, {amount of money}]
3: how much there is of something that you can measure [syn: {measure},
{quantity}, {quantum}]
4: a quantity obtained by addition [syn: {sum}, {total}]
v 1: be tantamount or equivalent to; "Her action amounted to a
rebellion"
2: add up in number or quantity; "The bills amounted to
$2,000"; "The bill came to $2,000" [syn: {total}, {number},
{add up}, {come}]
3: develop into; "This idea will never amount to anything";
"nothing came of his grandiose plans" [syn: {come}, {add
up}]
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