value
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
entertainment
lifestyle
mathematics
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: values
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: values
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: valuing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: valued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: valued
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The quality that renders something desirable or valuable; worth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There is tremendous value in a good education.
An abacus is of little value when you have an electronic calculator.
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.
gloss: The degree of importance given to something.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The value of my children's happiness is second only to that of my wife.
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.
gloss: That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system.
pos: noun
tags: countable
often
plural
uncountable
examples: He does not share his parents' values.
family values
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.
gloss: The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The value of the stolen painting is estimated to be around four million pounds.
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.
His design was not to pay him the value of his pictures, because they were above any price.
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.
gloss: The relative duration of a musical note.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The value of a crotchet is twice that of a quaver.
gloss: The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: When pigments of equal value are mixed together, the resulting color will be a darker value. This is the result of subtraction.
Shadows and light move very quickly when you are painting on location. Use Cobalt Blue to quickly establish the painting's values.
gloss: Any definite numerical quantity or other mathematical object, determined by being measured, computed, or otherwise defined.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The exact value of pi cannot be represented in decimal notation.
gloss: Precise meaning; import.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the value of a word; the value of a legal instrument
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
gloss: The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treating a mass or compound; specifically, the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
examples: The vein carries good values.
the values on the hanging walls
gloss: Esteem; regard.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: The French have a high value for them ; and I confess they are often what they call delicate
My relation to the person was so near, and my value for him so great.
gloss: Valour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Who ſoone prepard to field, his ſword forth drew, / And him with equall valew counteruayld: […]
gloss: To determine or estimate the value of; to judge the worth of.
pos: verb
examples: I will have the family jewels valued by a professional.
The property has been valued at six million pounds.
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.[…]But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.
gloss: To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon.
pos: verb
examples: Gold was valued highly among the Romans.
I value his advice.
gloss: To hold dear; to cherish.
pos: verb
examples: I value these old photographs.
Synonyms: valence
value
worth
Related words: valuable
worthless
esteem
cherish
appreciate
respect
revere
price
use
utility
instrumentality
benefit
profit
fertility
productivity
yield
quality
excellence
scarcity
demand
exchange
honor
treasure
gold
silver
bronze
platinum
diamond
jewel
gem
money
capital
asset
all the tea in China
character
important person
expert
genius
Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class V § 812a. Value
value system
Derived words: 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
dividend value trap
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 trap
value type
value voter
yield value
Zeleny sedimentation value
zeta value
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: արժեք
roman: aržekʻ
lang: Catalan
word: valor
lang: Danish
word: værdi
lang: Dutch
word: waarde
lang: Estonian
word: väärtused
lang: Finnish
word: arvo
lang: French
word: valeur
lang: German
word: Werte
lang: Greek
word: αξία
roman: axía
lang: Hebrew
word: עֵרֶך
roman: érekh
lang: Hindi
word: मूल्य
roman: mūlya
lang: Hungarian
word: értékrend
lang: Icelandic
word: gildi
lang: Italian
word: valore
lang: Japanese
word: 価値観
roman: kachikan
lang: Latvian
word: vērtība
lang: Macedonian
word: вредност
roman: vrednost
lang: Malay
word: nilai
lang: Malayalam
word: മൂല്യം
roman: mūlyaṁ
lang: Marathi
word: मूल्य
roman: mūlya
lang: Norman
word: valeu
lang: Iranian Persian
word: اَرْزِش
roman: arzeš
lang: Polish
word: wartość
lang: Portuguese
word: valor
lang: Portuguese
word: ideal
lang: Romanian
word: valoare
lang: Russian
word: це́нность
roman: cénnostʹ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: вре́дно̄ст
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: врије́дно̄ст
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: вридност
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: вредно̀та
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: вриједно̀та
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: vrédnōst
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: vrijédnōst
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: vridnost
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: vrednòta
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: vrijednòta
lang: Slovene
word: vrednota
lang: Spanish
word: valor
lang: Swedish
word: värde
lang: Thai
word: ค่านิยม
roman: kâa-ní-yom
lang: Turkish
word: değerler