The Collaborative International Dictionary
Amount \A*mount"\, 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.]
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To go up; to ascend. [Obs.]
So up he rose, and thence amounted straight.
--Spenser. 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.
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vb. (present participle of amount English)
Usage examples of "amounting".
But as in Lower Canada it was almost impossible that the assembly would be brought to act beneficially, it would be competent to the governor-general, both in the upper and lower province, to hold elections for persons, amounting to twenty in the whole, to concert with him upon the general state of affairs.
A degree of discontent, approaching, if not amounting to disaffection, has gained considerable ground.
Of the whole force which had left Cabul, amounting to more than 16,000 persons, not more than three hundred are said to have escaped.
A large body of Birmese troops, amounting to upwards of six thousand men, were known to be posted within a few miles of the town, strongly entrenched behind stockades, and out of reach of our steamers, the artillery practice from which appears to have impressed them with a proper sense of our superiority in that arm of war.
Behind the breast-bone there is experienced a sense of uneasiness, in some cases amounting to pain, more or less severe.
Sometimes there is intolerance of light or sound, and cerebral congestion, amounting almost to apoplectic symptoms.
I think, at least safely infer that diversification of structure, amounting to new generic differences, would have been profitable to them.
A capitulation ensued, by which the city and port of Manilla, with several ships and the military stores, were surrendered to England, while a ransom was given for all private property, amounting to 4,000,000 dollars.
New troops were sent, and the whole, amounting to more than two thousand men, proceeded to the attack.
One hundred escaped by flight, and the rest, amounting to five hundred men, surrendered as prisoners of war.
Above eighty gun-boats and bomb-ketches were to second the operations of the floating batteries, together with a multitude of frigates and smaller vessels, while the combined fleets of France and Spain amounting to fifty sail of the line, were to cover and support the attack.
The East India Company paid him the cost of his trial, amounting to more than seventy thousand pounds sterling, and conferred upon him a pecuniary donation.
This broke out on the 1st Prairial, or the 20th of May, when the populace of the fauxbourgs, amounting to 30,000, again surrounded the hall of the convention.
Nelson had annihilated the French fleet, by the arrival of a Turkish army, amounting to 18,000 men.
Losses by the sword, by sickness, and by privation, amounting to about 15,000 men since the battle of Busaco, at length induced Massena, on the 15th of November, to make a retrograde movement.