Amount
[ə'maʊnt]
Definition
(noun.) the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion; 'an adequate amount of food for four people'.
(verb.) be tantamount or equivalent to; 'Her action amounted to a rebellion'.
Typed by Beryl--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) To go up; to ascend.
(n.) To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come (to) in the aggregate or whole; -- with to or unto.
(n.) To rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (to); as, the testimony amounts to very little.
(v. t.) To signify; to amount to.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The effect, substance, value, significance, or result; the sum; as, the amount of the testimony is this.
Edited by Gail
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Aggregate, sum total.[2]. Effect, substance, purport, result.
Editor: Manuel
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Reach, rise, come, attain, extend
ANT:Fall, recede, relapse, decline, fail
SYN:Total, aggregate, sum, whole, quantity, totality, equality
ANT:Failure, decrease, deficiency, portion, instalment, deficit, insufficiency
Checked by Hillel
Definition
v.i. to mount or rise to: to result in: to come in meaning or substance to (with to).—n. the whole sum: the effect or result.
Editor: Thea
Examples
- Notwithstanding its simple action, its structure is complicated by a large amount of adding mechanism. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They teach at one time that men act from class interests: but they devote an enormous amount of energy to making men conscious of their class. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Some authors have maintained that the amount of variation in our domestic productions is soon reached, and can never afterward be exceeded. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- An examination of his betting-book shows that bets to the amount of five thousand pounds had been registered by him against the favorite. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I'll bear in mind the amount in this cheque, Mr. Betteredge, when the occasion comes round for remembering it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Any amount of singular look for me, but not a double look! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The amount of petroleum produced in the United States in 1896 was 60,960,361 barrels, the largest yield on record. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Commercial fertilizers generally contain nitrogen, phosphorus, and potash in amounts varying with the requirements of the soil. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The 8000 or so motion-picture theatres of the country employ no fewer than 40,000 people, whose aggregate annual income amounts to not less than $37,000,000. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Of this edition, up to the present period (1858), the astonishing number of TWELVE MILLIONS OF SHEETS have been issued, the weight of which amounts to upwards of 335 tons! Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The result has been the saving of vast amounts of maritime property, estimated at many millions of dollars yearly. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It is stated that the present output of the American factory of the Singer Company amounts to over 11,000 weekly, or more than half a million annually. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Resources do not depend upon gross amounts, but upon the proportion of spendings to takings. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Every day, uncontrolled fire wipes out human lives and destroys vast amounts of property; every day, fire, controlled and regulated in stove and furnace, cooks our food and warms our houses. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- His dislike of mankind, of the mass of mankind, amounted almost to an illness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The coinage of the United States mints since the organization of the government has amounted to nearly 6,000,000,000 pieces, valued at over $4,000,000,000. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Our total loss (not including Burnside's) in all these engagements amounted to 757 killed, 4,529 wounded and 330 missing. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But it amounted to little. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- So far as ability of control, of management, was concerned, it amounted to rule-of-thumb procedure, to routine. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It amounted almost to horror, to a sort of dream terror--his horror of being observed by some other people. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- His property in money amounted to nearly three thousand pounds. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- But now his pity, with his life, was wearing thin, and the dread almost amounting to horror, was rising into being. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I was going to say that when I listened that morning, I listened with hadmiration amounting to haw. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- In 1812 a great mass of armies, amounting altogether to 600,000 men, began to move towards Russia under the supreme command of the new emperor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- When she had gone through her rigid preliminaries, amounting to a sort of genteel platoon-exercise, she withdrew. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The revolution of 1688 having seriously interrupted the art in England, that country imported paper from Holland during that period amounting to ￡100,000. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- They were subjected, indeed, to a small poundage duty, amounting only to threepence in the hundred weight, upon their re-exportation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- These sums, united, make a total, if my calculation is correct, amounting to forty-one, ten, eleven and a half. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
Editor: Nettie