About The Word Amount
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What's The Definition Of Amount?
[n] how much there is of something that you can measure
[n] how much of something is available; "an adequate amount of food for four people" [n] a quantity obtained by addition [n] a quantity of money; "he borrowed a large sum"; "the amount he had in cash was insufficient" [v] develop into; "This idea will never amount to anything"; "nothing came of his grandiose plans" [v] add up in number or quantity; "The bills amounted to $2,000"; "The bill came to $2,000" [v] be tantamount or equivalent to; "Her action amounted to a rebellion" Synonyms | Synonyms for Amount: add up | amount of money | come | measure | number | quantity | quantum | sum | sum | sum of money | total | total Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 See Also | abstraction | advance | aggregate | assets | average | average out | be | become | cash advance | chance | contribution | cordage | decrease | decrement | deductible | defalcation | deficiency | definite quantity | economic value | figure | figure | fundamental measure | fundamental quantity | gain | inadequacy | increase | increment | indefinite quantity | insufficiency | interval | linear measure | long measure | loss | magnetisation | magnetization | magnitude | make | number | octane number | octane rating | outnumber | payroll | paysheet | period of play | play | playing period | polynomial | probability | proof | purse | quantity | quantity | relative quantity | system of measurement | time interval | time unit | turn | unit of time | value | volume | work out Amount In Webster's Dictionary \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.
\A*mount"\, v. t. To signify; to amount to. [Obs.] \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. |
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