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English Dictionary: amount	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
amount n a quantity of money; "he borrowed a large sum"; "the amount he had in cash was insufficient" Synonym(s): sum, sum of money, amount, amount of money the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion; "an adequate amount of food for four people" how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify Synonym(s): measure, quantity, amount a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers Synonym(s): sum, amount, total v be tantamount or equivalent to; "Her action amounted to a rebellion" add up in number or quantity; "The bills amounted to $2,000"; "The bill came to $2,000" Synonym(s): total, number, add up, come, amount develop into; "This idea will never amount to anything"; "nothing came of his grandiose plans" Synonym(s): come, add up, amount
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Amount \Amount"\, 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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Amount \Amount"\, v. t. To signify; to amount* to. [Obs.]