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Value   /vˈælju/   Listen
Value

noun
1.
A numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed.
2.
The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.
3.
The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.  Synonym: economic value.
4.
Relative darkness or lightness of a color.
5.
(music) the relative duration of a musical note.  Synonyms: note value, time value.
6.
An ideal accepted by some individual or group.
verb
(past & past part. valued; pres. part. valuing)
1.
Fix or determine the value of; assign a value to.
2.
Hold dear.  Synonyms: appreciate, prize, treasure.
3.
Regard highly; think much of.  Synonyms: esteem, prise, prize, respect.  "We prize his creativity"  Antonyms: disesteem, disrespect.
4.
Evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of.  Synonyms: appraise, assess, evaluate, measure, valuate.  "Access all the factors when taking a risk"
5.
Estimate the value of.  Synonym: rate.  "Gold was rated highly among the Romans"



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"Value" Quotes from Famous Books



... way of taking a wife among the Dakotas. The proposed husband usually gives a horse or its, value in other articles to the father or natural guardian of the woman selected—sometimes against her ...
— Legends of the Northwest • Hanford Lennox Gordon
... where the fortune, where the head itself, are so insecure, that scarcely any have died in their beds for ages, so that the bowstring is the natural death of Bashaws, yet in no country is power and distinction (precarious enough, God knows, in all) sought for with such boundless avidity, as if the value of place was enhanced by the danger and insecurity of its tenure. Nothing will ever make a seat in this House not an object of desire to numbers by any means or at any charge, but the depriving it of all power and all dignity. ...
— Thoughts on the Present Discontents - and Speeches • Edmund Burke
... boy!" it was as if they were once more rector and curate. "My dear brother! do you know what the value of an ex-bishop is in ...
— Soul of a Bishop • H. G. Wells
... fame of Erasmus, and the reputation of his translator, this volume has not obtained that notice which, either from its date or value, might be justly expected. Were its claim only founded on the colloquial notes of Udall, it is entitled to consideration, as therein may be traced several of the familiar phrases and common-place idioms, which have ...
— Notes & Queries 1850.01.19 • Various
... beast of the British Columbia coast was the sea otter (Enhydris), described on p. 305. Such an immense value was set on its fur that it is now ...
— Pioneers in Canada • Sir Harry Johnston


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