Amount

imp. & p. p. Amounted; p. pr. & vb. n. Amounting

1. To go up; to ascend. [Obs.]

   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.

1. To signify; to amount to. [Obs.]

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.