Include and Amount

verb

• Have as a part, be made up out of.
  • usage: "The list includes the names of many famous writers"
• Consider as part of something.
  • usage: "I include you in the list of culprits"
• Add as part of something else; put in as part of a set, group, or category.
  • usage: "We must include this chemical element in the group"
• Allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of.
  • usage: "admit someone to the profession"; "She was admitted to the New Jersey Bar"
  • synonyms: admit, let in

• (v.t.) To conclude; to end; to terminate.
• (v.t.) To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason the inference; to contain; to embrace; as, this volume of Shakespeare includes his sonnets; he was included in the invitation to the family; to and including page twenty-five.
• (v.t.) To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell.

noun

• A quantity of money.
  • usage: "he borrowed a large sum"; "the amount he had in cash was insufficient"
  • synonyms: sum, sum of money, amount of money
• The relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion.
  • usage: "an adequate amount of food for four people"
• How much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify.
  • synonyms: measure, quantity
• A quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers.
  • synonyms: sum, total

verb

• Be tantamount or equivalent to.
  • usage: "Her action amounted to a rebellion"
• Add up in number or quantity.
  • usage: "The bills amounted to $2, 000"; "The bill came to $2, 000"
  • synonyms: total, number, add up, come
• Develop into.
  • usage: "This idea will never amount to anything"; "nothing came of his grandiose plans"
  • synonyms: come, add up

• (n.) To go up; to ascend.
• (v.t.) To signify; to amount to.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come (to) in the aggregate or whole; -- with to or unto.
• (n.) To rise, reach or extend in effect, substance or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (to); as, the testimony amounts to very little.
• (n.) The effect, substance, value, significance or result; the sum; as, the amount of the testimony is this.