Dictionary Definition
value
Noun
1 a numerical quantity measured or assigned or
computed; "the value assigned was 16 milliseconds"
2 the quality (positive or negative) that renders
something desirable or valuable; "the Shakespearean Shylock is of
dubious value in the modern world"
3 the amount (of money or goods or services) that
is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else; "he tried
to estimate the value of the produce at normal prices" [syn:
economic
value]
4 relative darkness or lightness of a color; "I
establish the colors and principal values by organizing the
painting into three values--dark, medium...and light"-Joe Hing
Lowe
5 (music) the relative duration of a musical note
[syn: time
value, note
value]
6 an ideal accepted by some individual or group;
"he has old-fashioned values"
Verb
1 fix or determine the value of; assign a value
to; "value the jewelry and art work in the estate"
3 regard highly; think much of; "I respect his
judgement"; "We prize his creativity" [syn: respect, esteem, prize, prise] [ant: disrespect, disrespect]
4 place a value on; judge the worth of something;
"I will have the family jewels appraised by a professional" [syn:
measure, evaluate, valuate, assess, appraise]
5 estimate the value of; "How would you rate his
chances to become President?"; "Gold was rated highly among the
Romans" [syn: rate]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /ˈvæl.juː/
Noun
- The quality
(positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
- The Shakespearean Shylock is of dubious value in the modern world.
- The degree of
importance you give
to something.
- The value of my children's happiness is second only to that of my wife.
- The amount (of
money or goods or services) that is considered to
be a fair equivalent
for something else
- He tried to estimate the value of the produce at normal prices.
- The relative duration of a musical note.
- Relative darkness
or lightness of a
color;
- "I establish the colors and principal values by organizing the painting into three values--dark, medium...and light." -Joe Hing Lowe
- Numerical
quantity measured or
assigned or computed.
- The exact value of pi can never be computed.
Synonyms
- (quality that renders something desirable) worth
Translations
quality (positive or negative) that renders
something desirable or valuable
the degree of importance you give to something
the amount (of money or goods or services) that
is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else
the relative duration of a musical note
- Finnish: aika-arvo
- Hungarian: érték
- Icelandic: lengdargildi
- Polish: wartość
numerical quantity measured or assigned or
computed
an ideal accepted by some individual or group
- ttbc Afrikaans: waardeer
- ttbc Albanian: vlerë
- ttbc Arabic: القيمة
- ttbc Azeri: qiymət
- ttbc Basque: balio
- ttbc Bulgarian: стойност (stojnost)
- ttbc Catalan: valor
- ttbc Chinese: 价值 (jià zhí)
- ttbc Croatian: vrijednost
- ttbc Dutch: waarde
- ttbc Esperanto: valoro
- ttbc Estonian: väärtus
- ttbc Faeroese: meta
- ttbc French: valeur
- ttbc Georgian: ფასი (p’asi)
- ttbc German: Wert
- ttbc Hindi: upayogita
- ttbc Indonesian: nilai
- ttbc Irish: luach
- ttbc Italian: valore
- ttbc Korean: 가치 (gachi)
- ttbc Latin: valere
- ttbc Latvian: vērtība
- ttbc Lithuanian: vertė
- ttbc Malay: menaksir
- ttbc Norwegian: verdt
- ttbc Old English: weorþ
- ttbc Papiamentu: balor
- ttbc Persian: ﺵﺯﺭﺍ
- ttbc Portuguese: valor
- ttbc Romanian: valoare
- ttbc Serbian: вредност (vrednost)
- ttbc Slovak: cena
- ttbc Spanish: valor
- ttbc Sranan: gi-grani
- ttbc Swahili: bao
- ttbc Tagalog: halaga
- ttbc Tamil: madippu
- ttbc Thai: มูลค่า (moon kâa)
- ttbc Turkish: kıymet
- ttbc Ukrainian: оцінювати (ocínjuvaty)
- ttbc Uyghur: qimmiti
- ttbc Vietnamese: giá trị
- ttbc Welsh: gwerth
- ttbc Yiddish: vert
- ttbc Yucatec: baler
Verb
- Estimate the cost
of; judge the worth of something.
- I will have the family jewels valued by a professional.
- Regard highly; think
much of; place importance upon.
- Gold was valued highly among the Romans.
- Fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work.
- Hold dear.
- I value these old photographs.
Synonyms
appreciate, economic value, esteem, note value, prise, prize, rate, respect, time value, treasureAntonyms
Translations
estimate the value of
place a value on
regard highly
- Danish: skatte
- Finnish: arvostaa, pitää arvossa
- Hebrew:
- Hungarian: becsül, értékel
- Polish: cenić
- Russian: ценить (cenít')
fix or determine the value of
hold dear
- Danish: skatte
- Finnish: arvostaa, pitää arvossa
- Polish: cenić
- Russian: ценить (cenít')
See also
French
Verb
valueExtensive Definition
Value may refer to:
- Value (mathematics), the value of a variable in mathematics.
- Value (philosophy), the degree of importance, including the value independent on subjective valuations by any individual
- Value (personal and cultural), the principles, standards, or quality which guides human actions
- Value (economics), the market worth or estimated worth of commodities, services, assets, or work.
- Value investing, investing in securities whose shares appear underpriced
- Value theory, in ethics, aesthetics and other evaluative matters
- Value (marketing), provide service for consumer satisfaction
- Value (computer science)
- Value (law)
- Value (semiotics)
- Value (colorimetry), a measure of white or black in color
See also
- Anthropological theories of value
- Theory of value for more general discussions of economic value.
- Moral character
- Store of value
- Phronesis
- Extrinsic value
- Intrinsic value
value in Afrikaans: Waarde
value in Arabic: قيمة
value in Czech: Hodnota
value in German: Valor
value in Spanish: Valor (desambiguación)
value in French: Valeur
value in Korean: 가치
value in Italian: Valore
value in Hebrew: ערך
value in Norwegian: Verdi
value in Polish: Wartość
value in Romanian: Valoare
value in Slovak: Hodnota
value in Swedish: Värde
value in Vietnamese: Giá trị
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Munsell chroma, accent, accord respect to,
account, admire, adore, advantage, advantageousness,
affective meaning, agreeableness, apotheosize, appraisal, appraise, appreciate, apprize, arrangement, ascribe
importance to, assay,
assess, assessment, atmosphere, auspiciousness, avail, balance, barometer, bearing, behalf, behoof, beneficialness, benefit, benevolence, benignity, brightness, brushwork, calculate, caliber, calibrate, caliper, call, canon, care for, charge, check, check a parameter, cherish, chroma, chromatic color, chromaticity, class, cock, cogency, color, color quality, colorimetric
quality, coloring,
composition,
compute, concern, concernment, connotation, consequence, consequentiality,
consideration,
convenience,
conversion factor, cool color, cost, criterion, dead band, dearness, defer to, degree, deify, denotation, desert, design, dial, divide, draftsmanship, drift, effect, emphasis, entertain respect
for, essence, esteem, estimate, evaluate, exalt, excellence, expedience, expense, extension, extraordinary
worth, face, face value,
fair-trade, fairness,
fathom, favor, favorableness, figure, fineness, first-rateness,
force, form an estimate,
gate, gauge, gist, give an appreciation,
goodliness, goodness, grace, graduate, graduated scale,
grammatical meaning, great price, great value, grouping, guess, healthiness, helpfulness, hero-worship,
high order, high rank, hold in esteem, hold in reverence, honor, hue, hydrant, idea, idolize, impact, implication, import, importance, intension, interest, invaluableness, kindness, lexical meaning,
lightness, line, literal meaning, look up to,
make an estimation, make much of, mark, market value, materiality, meaning, measure, mensurate, merit, mete, meter, model, moment, net worth, neutral color,
niceness, norm, note, overtone, pace, painterliness, par value,
parameter, paramountcy, pattern, pennyworth, percentage, perspective, pertinence, petcock, pith, pleasantness, plumb, point, practical consequence,
precedence, preciousness, preeminence, price, pricelessness, primacy, priority, prize, probe, profit, profitableness,
proportional band, purity, purport, quality, quantify, quantity, quantize, quote a price, range
of meaning, rank, rate, rate highly, reading, readout, real meaning, reckon, reference, referent, regard, relation, relevance, respect, revere, reverence, rewardingness, rule, saturation, scale, scope, self-importance, semantic
cluster, semantic field, sense, service, set at, set point, set
store by, shading,
shadow, significance, signification, significatum, signifie, size, size up, skillfulness, sound, soundness, span, span of meaning, spigot, spirit, standard, stature, step, stopcock, stress, structural meaning,
substance, sum, sum and substance, superiority, supremacy, survey, symbolic meaning, take a
reading, tap, target values,
technique, tenor, test, think highly of, think much
of, think well of, tint,
tone, totality of
associations, touchstone, transferred
meaning, treasure,
treatment, triangulate, type, unadorned meaning, undertone, unworthy, use, usefulness, validity, valorize, valuableness, valuate, valuation, value received,
values, valve, venerate, virtue, virtuousness, warm color,
weigh, weight, wholeness, worship, worth, yardstick