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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

... 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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