volume
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English volume, from Old French volume, from Latin volūmen (“book, roll”), from volvō (“roll, turn about”).
Inflected forms:
form: volumes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vol.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: volumes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: voluming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: volumed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: volumed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: vol.
pos: verb
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: A three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height. It is measured in units of cubic centimeters in metric, cubic inches or cubic feet in English measurement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The room is 9×12×8, so its volume is 864 cubic feet.
The proper products can improve your hair's volume.
Volatiles of kecap manis and its raw materials were extracted using Likens-Nickerson apparatus with diethyl ether as the extraction solvent. The extracts were then dried with anhydrous sodium sulfate, concentrated using a rotary evaporator followed by flushing using nitrogen until the volume was about 0.5 ml.
gloss: Strength of sound: how loud it is.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Please turn down the volume on the stereo.
Volume can be measured in decibels.
This is not only how we stop Trump; it’s how we stop the next one. So, Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up.
gloss: The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I looked at this week's copy of the magazine. It was volume 23, issue 45.
gloss: A bound book.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.
gloss: A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The letter "G" was found in volume 4.
gloss: A great amount (of meaning) about something.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
in-plural
uncountable
examples: Ayesha wheeled round, and, pointing to the girl Ustane, said one word, and one only, but it was quite enough, for the tone in which it was said meant volumes.
gloss: A roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Quantity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The volume of ticket sales decreased this week.
gloss: A rounded mass or convolution.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The total of weight worked by a muscle in one training session, the weight of every single repetition summed up.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: (key muscle growth stimuli)
gloss: A modular foothold attached to a climbing wall used for gripping, often in triangular, pyramidal, or angular shapes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The sum of the degrees of a set of vertices.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A green/blue-screen chromakey visual effects (“VFX”) sound stage surrounded by a multitude of filming cameras, to allow for virtual camera changes in post production, by filming the whole 3-D volume of a chromakey film set.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A sound stage film set that has walls of video monitors, substituting for an actual background, set structures, providing a changeable video matte painting. A set with a form of projected background, similar to legacy traditional rear projection and front projection sets.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To be conveyed through the air, waft.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: […] thumping guns and pattering musket-shots, the long big boom of surgent hosts, and the muffled voluming and crash of storm-bells, proclaimed that the insurrection was hot.
[…] the Colonel, before he sat down, went about shutting the registers, through which a welding heat came voluming up from the furnace.
gloss: To cause to move through the air, waft.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We lay leaning over the bows, now looking up at the mist blown in never-ending volumed sheets, now at the sail swelling in the wind before which it fled, and again down at the water through which our boat was ploughing its evanescent furrow.
The censer, voluming upwards its ash-gray smoke, was now passed from hand to hand three times round the patient, and finally deposited on the floor at his feet.
The record player on the first floor volumed up Lonnie Johnson singing, “Tomorrow night, will you remember what you said tonight?”
gloss: To swell.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: book
tome
cubic distance
sound
ounce
pint
quart
gallon
cubic inch
cubic foot
cubic yard
cubic mile
Derived words: alcohol by volume
atomic volume
biovolume
bio-volume
blood volume
co-volume
covolume
diavolume
eigen-volume
eigenvolume
envolume
equivolume
equi-volume
euvolemia
fractional volume
Hubble volume
hyper-volume
hypervolume
intervolume
inter-volume
iso-volume
isovolume
Local Volume
lung volume
magneto-volume
magnetovolume
microvolume
micro-volume
molar volume
molecular volume
multi-volume
multivolume
non-volume
nonvolume
normovolemia
Planck volume
pressure volume diagram
residual volume
sales volume
shadow volume
specific volume
stroke volume
subvolume
sub-volume
tidal volume
turn up the volume on
van der Waals volume
volaemia
volemia
volume clutter
volume CT
volume defect
volume integral
volume-less
volumeless
volumer
volume resistivity
volume sales
volume-scope
volumescope
volume shooter
volumeter
volumetric
volumetrics
volumetry
volumette
volumic
voluminous
volumise
volumist
volumize
volumometer
worldvolume
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