Amount
Amount ({not transcribed}) , intransitive verb
[Old French amonter to increase, advance, ascend, from amont (equiv. to Latin ad montem to the mountain) upward, French amont up the river. See Mount, n.]
1.
To go up; to ascend. [Obsolete]
So up he rose, and thence amounted straight.
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.
Amount , transitive verb
To signify; to amount to. [Obsolete]
Amount , 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 this.
The whole amount of that enormous fame.