amount
21amount — I. intransitive verb Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French amounter, from amount upward, from a (from Latin ad ) + mont mountain more at mount Date: 14th century 1. a. to be equivalent < acts that amount to treason > b. to reach in kind or …
22amount — a•mount [[t]əˈmaʊnt[/t]] n. 1) the sum total of two or more quantities or sums 2) quantity; measure: a great amount of resistance[/ex] 3) the full effect, value, or significance 4) to total; add (usu. fol. by to): The bill amounts to $300[/ex] 5) …
23amount — /euh mownt /, n. 1. the sum total of two or more quantities or sums; aggregate. 2. the sum of the principal and interest of a loan. 3. quantity; measure: a great amount of resistance. 4. the full effect, value, or significance. v.i. 5. to total;… …
24amount*/*/*/ — [əˈmaʊnt] noun [C] I a quantity of something This amount (= quantity of money) should be paid within two weeks.[/ex] A computer can store vast amounts of information.[/ex] • no amount of sth used for saying that something will never be enough to… …
25amount — [[t]əma͟ʊnt[/t]] ♦♦ amounts, amounting, amounted 1) N VAR: usu N of n The amount of something is how much there is, or how much you have, need, or get. He needs that amount of money to survive... I still do a certain amount of work for them...… …
26amount — I n. 1) an ample, considerable, enormous, huge, large, tremendous; moderate; negligible, paltry, small amount 2) the full amount II v. (d; intr.) to amount to (it amounts to fraud; he ll never amount to anything) * * * [ə maʊnt] considerable… …
27amount to — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms amount to : present tense I/you/we/they amount to he/she/it amounts to present participle amounting to past tense amounted to past participle amounted to 1) a) amount to something to be the same as or equal to …
28amount to — [verb] add up to, become, come to, develop into, equal, mean, total * * * amount to [phrasal verb] amount to (something) 1 : to produce (a total) when added together The bill amounted to 10 dollars. They have debts amounting to thousands of… …
29amount — Synonyms and related words: 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 …
30amount — /əˈmaʊnt / (say uh mownt) noun 1. quantity or extent: *it is still an offence in every state to possess any considerable amount of marihuana. –frank crowley and lorna cartwright, 1977. 2. the full effect, value, or import. 3. the sum total of two …
