Amount

·noun To go up; to Ascend.

II. Amount ·vt To Signify; to amount to.

III. Amount ·noun The effect, substance, value, significance, or result; the sum; as, the amount of the testimony is this.

IV. Amount ·noun To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come (to) in the aggregate or whole;

— with to or unto.

V. Amount ·noun To rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (to); as, the testimony amounts to very little.

VI. Amount ·noun 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.