value

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See also:valuéandvalúe

English

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Alternative forms

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  • valew(in the sense of “valour”)

Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishvalew,value,fromOld Frenchvalue,feminine past participle ofvaloir,fromLatinvalēre(“be strong, be worth”),fromProto-Italic*walēō,fromProto-Indo-European*h₂welh₁-(“to be strong”).

Pronunciation

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  • enPR:văl'ū,IPA(key):/ˈvæl.juː/
  • Audio(US):(file)
  • Hyphenation:val‧ue
  • Rhymes:-æljuː

Noun

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value(countableanduncountable,pluralvalues)

  1. Thequality(positive or negative) that renders something desirable orvaluable.
    The Shakespearean Shylock is of dubiousvaluein the modern world.
    Synonyms:worth;see alsoThesaurus:value
    • 2012May 13, Alistair Magowan, “Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd”,inBBC Sport:
      United werevaluefor their win and Rooney could have had a hat-trick before half-time, withPaul Scholesalso striking the post in the second half.
  2. (uncountable)Thedegreeofimportancegiven to something.
    Thevalueof my children's happiness is second only to that of my wife.
    • 2016October 16, “Third Parties”, inLast Week Tonight with John Oliver,season 3, episode26,John Oliver(actor), via HBO:
      Okay, for the record, and this is probably obvious, those three departments do actually do thingsof 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 tobe 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. Uh, quick piece of advice, please stop trying to fuck mountains!
  3. That which is valued or highlyesteemed,such as one'smorals,morality, orbelief system.
    He does not share his parents'values.
    familyvalues
    • 2013June 7,Gary Younge,“Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”,inThe Guardian Weekly,volume188,number26,page18:
      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 professedvaluesand actual foreign policies.
  4. Theamount(ofmoneyorgoodsorservices) that is considered to be a fairequivalentfor something else.
    • 1825,John Ramsay McCulloch,Principles of Political Economy:
      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 exchangeablevalue.
    • 1695,C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy,translated byJohn Dryden,De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting,[…],London:[…]J[ohn]Heptinstall for W. Rogers,[…],→OCLC:
      His design was not to pay him thevalueof his pictures, because they were above any price.
    • 2013August 3, “Boundary problems”,inThe Economist,volume408,number8847:
      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 totalvalueof output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
  5. (music)The relativedurationof a musical note.
    Thevalueof acrotchetis twice that of aquaver.
  6. (art)The relativedarknessorlightnessof a color in (a specific area of) apaintingetc.
    • 2006,Edith Anderson Feisner,Colour: How to Use Colour in Art and Design:
      When pigments of equalvalueare mixed together, the resulting color will be a darkervalue.This is the result of subtraction.
    • 2010,Rose Edin, Dee Jepsen,Color Harmonies: Paint Watercolors Filled with Light:
      Shadows and light move very quickly when you are painting on location. Use Cobalt Blue to quickly establish the painting's values.
  7. (mathematics,physics)Any definitenumericalquantityor other mathematicalobject,determined by being measured,computed,or otherwisedefined.
    The exactvalueofpicannot be represented indecimalnotation.
  8. Precisemeaning;import.
    thevalueof a word; thevalueof a legal instrument
    • 1784-1810,William Mitford,The History of Greece:
      Yet that learned and diligent annotator has, in a following note, shown his sense of thevalueof a passage of Livy, marking, in a few words, most strongly the desolation of Italy under the Roman republic
  9. (in theplural)The valuableingredientsto be obtained by treating amassorcompound;specifically, theprecious metalscontained in rock, gravel, etc.
    The vein carries goodvalues.
    thevalueson the hanging walls
  10. (obsolete)Esteem;regard.
    • 1700,[John] Dryden,“Preface”, inFables Ancient and Modern;[…],London:[…]Jacob Tonson,[…],→OCLC:
      The French have a highvaluefor them; and I confess they are often what they call delicate
    • 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[…],published1724,→OCLC:
      My relation to the person was so near, and myvaluefor him so great.
  11. (obsolete)Valour.

Synonyms

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Verb

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value(third-person singular simple presentvalues,present participlevaluing,simple past and past participlevalued)

  1. Toestimatethe value of; judge theworthof something.
    I will have the family jewelsvaluedby a professional.
    • 2013August 3, “Boundary problems”,inThe Economist,volume408,number8847:
      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 tovalueit. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.
  2. To fix ordeterminethe value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work.
  3. Toregardhighly;thinkmuchof; placeimportanceupon.
    Gold wasvaluedhighly among the Romans.
  4. To hold dear.
    Ivaluethese old photographs.

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See also

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Anagrams

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Participle

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valuefsg

  1. femininesingularofvalu

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromOld Frenchvalue.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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value(uncountable)

  1. Material or monetaryworth.

Descendants

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  • English:value
  • Yola:vallert

References

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