“amount” – English explanatory dictionary

noun a quantity of something such as money ○ The amount in my bank account has reached £1,000. ○ This make of car uses by far the least amount of petrol. □ a certain amount some ○ The storm did a certain amount of damage.

v. i. [imp. & p. p. Amounted; p. pr. & vb. n. Amounting.] [OF. amonter to increase, advance, ascend, fr. amont (equiv. to L. ad montem to the mountain) upward, F. amont up the river. See Mount, n.]
1. To go up; to ascend. [Obs.] “So up he rose, and thence amounted straight.
Spenser.”
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.

v. t. To signify; to amount to. [Obs.]

n. 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.
Pope.”