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Webster 1913 Edition
Amount
A-mount′
,Verb.
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
, Noun.
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 littleA-mount′
,Verb.
T.
To signify; to amount to.
[Obs.]
A-mount′
,Noun.
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 thisThe whole
amount
of that enormous fame. Pope.
Webster 1828 Edition
Amount
AMOUNT'
,Verb.
I.
1.
To rise to or reach, by an accumulation of particulars, into an aggregate whole; to compose in the whole; as, the interest on the several sums amounts to fifty dollars.2.
To rise, reach, or extend to, in effect, or substance; to result in, by consequence, when all things are considered; as, the testimony of these witnesses amounts to very little.Definition 2024
amount
amount
English
Noun
amount (plural amounts)
- The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
- The amount of atmospheric pollution threatens a health crisis.
- A quantity or volume.
- Pour a small amount of water into the dish.
- The dogs need different amounts of food.
- 2013 July 26, Leo Hickman, “How algorithms rule the world”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 26:
- The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. […] who, if anyone, is policing their use[?] Such concerns were sharpened further by the continuing revelations about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been using algorithms to help it interpret the colossal amounts of data it has collected from its covert dragnet of international telecommunications.
- (nonstandard, sometimes proscribed) The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
- 2001, Gisella Gori, Towards an EU right to education, page 195:
- The final amount of students who have participated to mobility for the period 1995-1999 is held to be around 460 000.
- 2001, Gisella Gori, Towards an EU right to education, page 195:
Hyponyms
- notional amount
- principal amount
Derived terms
Translations
total or sum of items
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quantity or volume
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number of elements in a set — see number
Verb
amount (third-person singular simple present amounts, present participle amounting, simple past and past participle amounted)
- (intransitive, followed by to) To total or evaluate.
- It amounts to three dollars and change.
- (intransitive, followed by to) To be the same as or equivalent to.
- He was a pretty good student, but never amounted to much professionally.
- His response amounted to gross insubordination
- (obsolete, intransitive) To go up; to ascend.
- Spenser
- So up he rose, and thence amounted straight.
- Spenser
Translations
to total or evaluate
to be the same as