amount

Từ điển American Heritage Dictionary 4th

a·mount (ə-mountʹ)n.
1. The total of two or more quantities; the aggregate.
2. A number; a sum.
3. A principal plus its interest, as in a loan.
4. The full effect or meaning; import.
5. Quantity:
a great amount of intelligence.intr.v. a·mount·ed, a·mount·ing, a·mounts
1. To add up in number or quantity:
The purchases amounted to 50 dollars.
2. To add up in import or effect:
That plan will never amount to anything.
3. To be equivalent or tantamount:
accusations that amount to an indictment. [From Middle English amounten, to ascend, from Old French amonter, from amont, upward, from Latin ad montem, to the hill : ad, to; See ad- in Indo-European Roots + mōns, mont-, hill; See men-² in Indo-European Roots.]

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  sum, total, measure, quantity, sum of money, amount of money, come, add up, number