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 Definitions for amount: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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.]
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So up he rose, and thence amounted straight.
--Spenser.
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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.
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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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Amount \A*mount"\, v. t.
To signify; to amount to. [Obs.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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.
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2. The effect, substance, value, significance, or result; the
sum; as, the amount of the testimony is this.
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The whole amount of that enormous fame. --Pope.
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WordNet (r) 2.0
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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 quantify [syn: measure,
quantity]
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}]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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142 Moby Thesaurus words for "amount":
account, add up, add up to, aggregate, amount to, amplitude,
approach, batch, become, body, box score, budget, bulk, bunch,
burden, caliber, cast, charge, chunk, clutch, come, come up to,
compass, comprehend, comprise, core, correspond to, cost, count,
cut, damage, deal, degree, difference, dose, embody, entirety,
equal, expanse, expenditure, expense, extent, figure, force, gob,
grade, grand total, gross amount, group, heap, height, hint, hunk,
imply, include, incorporate, interval, intimate, large amount,
leap, level, lot, magnitude, mark, mass, match, matter, measure,
measurement, mess, notch, nuance, number, numbers, pack, parcel,
part, partake of, pas, peg, period, pitch, plane, plateau, point,
portion, price, price tag, product, proportion, purport, quantity,
quantum, range, rate, ratio, ration, reach, reckoning, remove,
rival, round, run into, rung, scale, scope, score, sense, shade,
shadow, short, small amount, space, stair, standard, step, stint,
strength, substance, subsume, suggest, sum, sum and substance,
sum total, summation, supply, tab, tale, tally, the amount,
the bottom line, the story, the whole story, thrust, total, touch,
tread, upshot, volume, whole, whole amount, x number
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