value
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: văl'ū
ipa: /ˈvæl.juː/
rhymes: -æljuː
Forms: form: values
Etymology: From Middle English valew, value, from Old French value, feminine past participle of valoir, from Latin valēre (“be strong, be worth”), from Proto-Italic *walēō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“to be strong”).
Senses: examples: text: There is tremendous value in a good education.
text: An abacus is of little value when you have an electronic calculator.
text: United were value for their win and Rooney could have had a hat-trick before half-time, with Paul Scholes also striking the post in the second half.
ref: 2012 May 13, Alistair Magowan, “Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: worth
glosses: The quality that renders something desirable or valuable; worth.
examples: text: The value of my children's happiness is second only to that of my wife.
text: Okay, for the record, and this is probably obvious, those three departments do actually do things of value, assuming that you find Pell grants, mortgage insurance, low-income housing programs, the National Weather Service, the Patent and Trademark Office, and the Census Bureau to be of some value. And if it comes as news to you that that’s what those departments do, well then, hi Gary, I’m excited you’re watching the show.
ref: 2016 October 16, “Third Parties”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 26, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:
glosses: The degree of importance given to something.
examples: text: He does not share his parents' values.
text: family values
text: WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.
ref: 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:
glosses: That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system.
examples: text: The value of the stolen painting is estimated to be around four million pounds.
text: An article may be possessed of the highest degree of utility, or power to minister to our wants and enjoyments, and may be universally made use of, without possessing exchangeable value.
ref: 1825, John Ramsay McCulloch, Principles of Political Economy:
text: His design was not to pay him the value of his pictures, because they were above any price.
ref: 1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC:
text: Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
glosses: The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
examples: text: The value of a crotchet is twice that of a quaver.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The relative duration of a musical note.
examples: text: When pigments of equal value are mixed together, the resulting color will be a darker value. This is the result of subtraction.
ref: 2006, Edith Anderson Feisner, Colour: How to Use Colour in Art and Design:
text: Shadows and light move very quickly when you are painting on location. Use Cobalt Blue to quickly establish the painting's values.
ref: 2010, Rose Edin, Dee Jepsen, Color Harmonies: Paint Watercolors Filled with Light:
topics: art
arts
glosses: The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
examples: text: The exact value of pi cannot be represented in decimal notation.
topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: Any definite numerical quantity or other mathematical object, determined by being measured, computed, or otherwise defined.
examples: text: the value of a word; the value of a legal instrument
text: Yet that learned and diligent annotator has , in a following note , shown his sense of the value of a passage of Livy , marking , in a few words , most strongly the desolation of Italy under the Roman republic
ref: 1784-1810, William Mitford, The History of Greece:
glosses: Precise meaning; import.
examples: text: The vein carries good values.
text: the values on the hanging walls
glosses: The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treating a mass or compound; specifically, the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, etc.
examples: text: The French have a high value for them ; and I confess they are often what they call delicate
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “Preface”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: My relation to the person was so near, and my value for him so great.
ref: a. 1716 (date written), [Gilbert] Burnet, edited by [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Thomas Ward […], published 1724, →OCLC:
glosses: Esteem; regard.
examples: text: Who ſoone prepard to field, his ſword forth drew, / And him with equall valew counteruayld: […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 264:
related: word: valew
glosses: Valour.
Synonyms: word: valence
word: value
word: worth
Hyponyms: word: added value
word: economic value
word: face value
word: intrinsic value
word: lvalue
word: market value
word: note value
word: par value
word: rvalue
word: time value
word: instrumental value
word: exchange value
word: use value
Derived terms: absolute value
accept at face value
acid value
actual cash value
add value
add value machine
aged R-value
and nothing of value was lost
article of extraordinary value
book value
call-by-value
call by value
call value
calorific value
capital value
cash value
characteristic value
customs value
C-value
C-value paradox
diminished value
D-value
enterprise value
entertainment value
exchange value
expected value
extreme value theorem
extrinsic value
face-value
fact-value distinction
fair market value
fair value
first-class value
function value
f-value
good value
g value
half-value thickness
high-value
high-value target
initial value problem
initial-value problem
intermediate value theorem
iodine value
kauri-butanol value
key-value
Kirschner value
Koettstorfer value
Köttstorfer value
k-value
labor theory of value
labor-value theory
labor value theory
labour theory of value
labour-value theory
labour value theory
latent value
low-value
marquee value
marriage value
mean value theorem
net present value
nominal value
numismatic value
of value
p-adic absolute value
pass-by-value
pass by value
phenotypic value
place value
Polenske value
present value
production value
proper value
p-value
Q-value
rateable value
redemption value
Reichert-Meissl-Wollny value
Reichert value
replay value
return value
ruin value
r-value
saponification value
second-class value
sentimental value
sexual market value
Shapley value
shareholder value
shock value
sign-value notation
singular value decomposition
snob value
stand in one's value
stored-value card
store of value
street value
surplus value
surrender value
take at face value
tax value
theory of value
third-class value
time value
time value of money
time value premium
trivial absolute value
truth value
universal value
use value
U-value
valuable
value-add
value add
value-added
value added
value-added network
value-added reseller
value-added service
value added tax
value-added tax
value bet
value billing
value chain
value date
value domain
value-form
value for money
value-free
value in exchange
value in use
value investing
value judgement
value judgment
value-laden
valueless
valueness
value-neutral
value over replacement player
value premium
value proposition
value proposition canvas
value raise
value restriction
value statement
value system
value theory
value type
value voter
yield value
Zeleny sedimentation value
zeta value
Related terms: word: valuable
word: worthless
word: esteem
word: cherish
word: appreciate
word: respect
word: revere
word: price
word: use
word: utility
word: instrumentality
word: benefit
word: profit
word: fertility
word: productivity
word: yield
word: quality
word: excellence
word: scarcity
word: demand
word: exchange
word: honor
word: treasure
word: gold
word: silver
word: bronze
word: platinum
word: diamond
word: jewel
word: gem
word: money
word: capital
word: asset
word: all the tea in China
word: character
word: important person
word: expert
word: genius
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class V § 812a. Value