Definition of Amount

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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.

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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

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

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Henry David Thoreau

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Henry David Thoreau

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
Henry Ford

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

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