amount

amount
    n 1: a quantity of money; "he borrowed a large sum"; "the amount
         he had in cash was insufficient" [syn: {sum}, {sum of
         money}, {amount}, {amount of money}]
    2: the relative magnitude of something with reference to a
       criterion; "an adequate amount of food for four people"
    3: how much there is or how many there are of something that you
       can quantify [syn: {measure}, {quantity}, {amount}]
    4: a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
       [syn: {sum}, {amount}, {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}, {amount}]
    3: develop into; "This idea will never amount to anything";
       "nothing came of his grandiose plans" [syn: {come}, {add up},
       {amount}]
    

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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Amount \A*mount"\, v. t.
   To signify; to amount to. [Obs.]
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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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142 Moby Thesaurus words for "amount":
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      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