VALUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does value mean? 

• VALUE (noun)
  The noun VALUE has 6 senses:

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

4. relative darkness or lightness of a color

5. (music) the relative duration of a musical note

6. an ideal accepted by some individual or group

  Familiarity information: VALUE used as a noun is common.

• VALUE (verb)
  The verb VALUE has 5 senses:

1. fix or determine the value of; assign a value to

2. hold dear

3. regard highly; think much of

4. evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of

5. estimate the value of

  Familiarity information: VALUE used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VALUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

the value assigned was 16 milliseconds

Hypernyms ("value" is a kind of...):

numerical quantity (a quantity expressed as a number)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "value"):

characteristic root of a square matrix; eigenvalue; eigenvalue of a matrix; eigenvalue of a square matrix ((mathematics) any number such that a given square matrix minus that number times the identity matrix has a zero determinant)

scale value (a value on some scale of measurement)

argument; parameter ((computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

the Shakespearean Shylock is of dubious value in the modern world

Hypernyms ("value" is a kind of...):

worth (the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "value"):

cost; monetary value; price (the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold))

monetary standard; standard (the value behind the money in a monetary system)

market price; market value (the price at which buyers and sellers trade the item in an open marketplace)

book value (the value at which an asset is carried on a balance sheet; equals cost minus accumulated depreciation)

face value; nominal value; par value (the value of a security that is set by the company issuing it; unrelated to market value)

GDP; gross domestic product (the measure of an economy adopted by the United States in 1991; the total market values of goods and services produced by workers and capital within a nation's borders during a given period (usually 1 year))

GNP; gross national product (former measure of the United States economy; the total market value of goods and services produced by all citizens and capital during a given period (usually 1 yr))

national income (the total value of all income in a nation (wages and profits and interest and rents and pension payments) during a given period (usually 1 yr))

unimportance (the quality of not being important or worthy of note)

importance (the quality of being important and worthy of note)

richness (the quality of having high intrinsic value)

cost; price; toll (value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something)

invaluableness; preciousness; pricelessness; valuableness (the positive quality of being precious and beyond value)

Derivation:

evaluate; valuate (evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

economic value; value

Context example:

he tried to estimate the value of the produce at normal prices

Hypernyms ("value" is a kind of...):

amount; measure; quantity (how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "value"):

mess of pottage (anything of trivial value)

premium (the amount that something in scarce supply is valued above its nominal value)

Derivation:

evaluate; valuate; value (evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of)

value (fix or determine the value of; assign a value to)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Relative darkness or lightness of a color

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

I establish the colors and principal values by organizing the painting into three values--dark, medium...and light

Hypernyms ("value" is a kind of...):

color property (an attribute of color)

Attribute:

black (being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light)

white (being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light)

light; light-colored ((used of color) having a relatively small amount of coloring agent)

dark ((used of color) having a dark hue)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "value"):

darkness (having a dark or somber color)

lightness (having a light color)

Sense 5

Meaning:

(music) the relative duration of a musical note

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

note value; time value; value

Hypernyms ("value" is a kind of...):

continuance; duration (the period of time during which something continues)

Domain category:

music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)

Sense 6

Meaning:

An ideal accepted by some individual or group

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

he has old-fashioned values

Hypernyms ("value" is a kind of...):

ideal (the idea of something that is perfect; something that one hopes to attain)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "value"):

introject ((psychoanalysis) parental figures (and their values) that you introjected as a child; the voice of conscience is usually a parent's voice internalized)

principle (a rule or standard especially of good behavior)

Derivation:

value (regard highly; think much of)

• VALUE (verb)

Conjugation:

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fix or determine the value of; assign a value to

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

value the jewelry and art work in the estate

Hypernyms (to "value" is one way to...):

determine; set (fix conclusively or authoritatively)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "value"):

overestimate; overvalue (assign too high a value to)

underestimate; undervalue (assign too low a value to)

float (allow (currencies) to fluctuate)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

value (the amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else)

valuer (someone who assesses the monetary worth of possessions)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Hold dear

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

appreciate; prize; treasure; value

Context example:

I prize these old photographs

Hypernyms (to "value" is one way to...):

consider; reckon; regard; see; view (deem to be)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "value"):

do justice (show due and full appreciation)

recognise; recognize (show approval or appreciation of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

valuable (having great material or monetary value especially for use or exchange)

valuable (having worth or merit or value)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Regard highly; think much of

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

esteem; prise; prize; respect; value

Context example:

We prize his creativity

Hypernyms (to "value" is one way to...):

consider; reckon; regard; see; view (deem to be)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "value"):

think the world of (esteem very highly)

fear; revere; reverence; venerate (regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of)

admire; look up to (feel admiration for)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam cannot value Sue

Derivation:

valuable (having worth or merit or value)

value (an ideal accepted by some individual or group)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

appraise; assess; evaluate; measure; valuate; value

Context example:

access all the factors when taking a risk

Hypernyms (to "value" is one way to...):

evaluate; judge; pass judgment (form a critical opinion of)

Verb group:

assess (estimate the value of (property) for taxation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "value"):

praise (express approval of)

censor (subject to political, religious, or moral censorship)

reassess; reevaluate (revise or renew one's assessment)

standardise; standardize (evaluate by comparing with a standard)

rate; value (estimate the value of)

grade; mark; score (assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

value (the amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else)

valuer (someone who assesses the monetary worth of possessions)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Estimate the value of

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

rate; value

Context example:

Gold was rated highly among the Romans

Hypernyms (to "value" is one way to...):

appraise; assess; evaluate; measure; valuate; value (evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "value"):

revalue (value anew)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

I didn't value him half enough when I had him, but now how I should love to see him, for everyone seems going away from me, and I'm all alone.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And such a piece of meat was of value.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Therefore, I brought them back, and on the first day at home I took one round to Spink's, and asked him to have it roughly cut and valued.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I thought perhaps the alterations had disturbed some old associations he valued.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

‘I beg that you will state your business, sir,’ said I; ‘my time is of value.’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Which is a cheap thing and without value.” I flung his words at him.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I have a great value for Benwick; and when one can but get him to talk, he has plenty to say.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

You have bought her too dearly, and your brother does not offer half her value.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The older man is showing documents which are of evident value.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well, we have several, but we can only test their value by further inquiry.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)