Definition of Amount

Amount To go up; to ascend. To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come (to) in the aggregate or whole; -- with to or unto. To rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (to); as, the testimony amounts to very little. To signify; to amount to. 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. The effect, substance, value, significance, or result; the sum; as, the amount of the testimony is this. Related Definitions: Accumulation, Aggregate, Amount, An, And, As, Ascend, Be, By, Bill, Come, Effect, Equivalent, Extend, Go, In, Influence, Is, Little, More, Of, Or, Particular, Practically, Quantities, Quantity, Reach, Result, Revenue, Rise, Significance, Signify, Substance, Sum, Testimony, The, This, To, Total, Totality, Two, Unto, Up, Value, Very, Whole, With, Year

Amount Quotations It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters. Mother Teresa No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. Albert Einstein I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'. Ronald Reagan It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. Helen Keller There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount. Ralph Waldo Emerson When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. Plato If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them. Will Rogers Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it. Will Rogers The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. Voltaire The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. Henry David Thoreau

Amount Translations amount in Afrikaans is aantal, bedrag amount in Dutch is tal, aantal, getal amount in Finnish is summa amount in French is nombre, somme, montant amount in German is Betrag, Betrag, gelesene/Betrag, Summe amount in Italian is importo amount in Portuguese is uma quantidade amount in Swedish is antal, summa, belopp