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Value   /vˈælju/   Listen
noun
Value  n.  
1.
The property or aggregate properties of a thing by which it is rendered useful or desirable, or the degree of such property or sum of properties; worth; excellence; utility; importance. "Ye are all physicians of no value." "Ye are of more value than many sparrows." "Caesar is well acquainted with your virtue, And therefore sets this value on your life." "Before events shall have decided on the value of the measures."
2.
(Trade & Polit. Econ.) Worth estimated by any standard of purchasing power, especially by the market price, or the amount of money agreed upon as an equivalent to the utility and cost of anything. "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." "Value is the power to command commodities generally." "Value is the generic term which expresses power in exchange." "His design was not to pay him the value of his pictures, because they were above any price." Note: In political economy, value is often distinguished as intrinsic and exchangeable. Intrinsic value is the same as utility or adaptation to satisfy the desires or wants of men. Exchangeable value is that in an article or product which disposes individuals to give for it some quantity of labor, or some other article or product obtainable by labor; as, pure air has an intrinsic value, but generally not an exchangeable value.
3.
Precise signification; import; as, the value of a word; the value of a legal instrument
4.
Esteem; regard. "My relation to the person was so near, and my value for him so great"
5.
(Mus.) The relative length or duration of a tone or note, answering to quantity in prosody; thus, a quarter note has the value of two eighth notes.
6.
In an artistical composition, the character of any one part in its relation to other parts and to the whole; often used in the plural; as, the values are well given, or well maintained.
7.
Valor. (Written also valew) (Obs.)
8.
(a)
That property of a color by which it is distinguished as bright or dark; luminosity.
(b)
Degree of lightness as conditioned by the presence of white or pale color, or their opposites.
9.
(Math.) Any particular quantitative determination; as, a function's value for some special value of its argument.
10.
(pl.) The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treatment from any mass or compound; specif., the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, or the like; as, the vein carries good values; the values on the hanging walls.
Value received, a phrase usually employed in a bill of exchange or a promissory note, to denote that a consideration has been given for it.


verb
Value  v. t.  (past & past part. valued; pres. part. valuing)  
1.
To estimate the value, or worth, of; to rate at a certain price; to appraise; to reckon with respect to number, power, importance, etc. "The mind doth value every moment." "The queen is valued thirty thousand strong." "The king must take it ill, That he's so slightly valued in his messenger." "Neither of them valued their promises according to rules of honor or integrity."
2.
To rate highly; to have in high esteem; to hold in respect and estimation; to appreciate; to prize; as, to value one for his works or his virtues. "Which of the dukes he values most."
3.
To raise to estimation; to cause to have value, either real or apparent; to enhance in value. (Obs.) "Some value themselves to their country by jealousies of the crown."
4.
To be worth; to be equal to in value. (Obs.) "The peace between the French and us not values The cost that did conclude it."
Synonyms: To compute; rate; appraise; esteem; respect; regard; estimate; prize; appreciate.





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"Value" Quotes from Famous Books



... but she and Mahomet between them consider themselves competent to get me under their thumb. I don't intend to be under their thumb. I intend to be under nobody's thumb but yours; and the sooner the better. Now you know all about it; but as you shall value the first squeeze which you shall get when you do come, don't come till your coming has ...
— The Landleaguers • Anthony Trollope
... and ground of offending lay in the thirty-sixth and following clauses of the Constitutional Act of 1791, which proposed to support {49} and maintain a Protestant clergy in the provinces by grants of land, equal in value to the seventh part of lands granted for other purposes. On the face of it, and interpreted by the clauses which follow, the Act seems to bear out the Anglican contention that the English Church establishment ...
— British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government - 1839-1854 • J. L. Morison
... table himself. This he did by the simple expedient of putting everything on top of everything else. But he did not waste anything, a precaution whose value he realised that night upon returning from the dining room where he had spent some time in looking at that repast known to the Imperial as supper. Bubble, the bell boy, found him ...
— Up the Hill and Over • Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
... body of water. Apparently the principal reason why it did not appeal to the Spaniards was that owing to the prevailing easterly breezes their clumsy vessels would have encountered difficulty in leaving. Since the days of steam, of course, this trouble is obviated. The value of the Bay as a naval station has been widely advertised, and France, England and the United States have at various times entertained projects of acquiring it. The American government in 1869 even negotiated a treaty for the lease of Samana peninsula ...
— Santo Domingo - A Country With A Future • Otto Schoenrich
... making it tremble. When this occurred, you gave place to your opponent, who relinquished his turn to you when ill fortune descended upon him, the game, which was a kind of river-driving and jam-picking in miniature, being decided by the number of pieces captured and their value. No wonder that the under boss asked Rose's advice as to the key-log. She had a fairy's hand, and her cunning at deciding the pieces to be moved, and her skill at extricating and lifting them from the heap, were looked upon in Edgewood as little less than ...
— Homespun Tales • Kate Douglas Wiggin


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