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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary val·ue
\\ˈval-(ˌ)yü\\ noun ETYMOLOGY Middle English, worth, high quality, from Anglo-French, from Vulgar Latin * valuta, from feminine of * valutus, past participle of Latin valēre to be of worth, be strong — more at wield
DATE 14th century
1. a fair return or equivalent in goods, services, or money for something exchanged2. the monetary worth of something : market price 3. relative worth, utility, or importance a good value at the price the value of base stealing in baseball had nothing of value to say4. a numerical quantity that is assigned or is determined by calculation or measurement let x take on positive values a value for the age of the earth5. the relative duration of a musical note6. a. relative lightness or darkness of a color : luminosity b. the relation of one part in a picture to another with respect to lightness and darkness7. something (as a principle or quality) intrinsically valuable or desirable sought material values instead of human values — W. H. Jones8. denomination 2• val·ue·less
\\-(ˌ)yü-ləs, -yə-\\ adjective• val·ue·less·ness nountransitive verb ( val·ued ; val·u·ing) DATE 15th century
1. a. to estimate or assign the monetary worth of : appraise value a necklace b. to rate or scale in usefulness, importance, or general worth : evaluate 2. to consider or rate highly : prize , esteem values your opinionSynonyms: see estimate , appreciate • val·u·er
\\-yə-wər\\ noun
value value (n.) c.1300, from O.Fr
http://O.Fr . value "worth, value" (13 c.), noun use of fem. pp. of valoir "be worth," from L. valere "be strong, be well, be of value" (see valiant). The meaning "social principle" is attested from 1918, supposedly borrowed from the language of painting. The verb is recorded from late 15 c. Related: Valued, valuing. Value judgment (1892) is a loan-translation of Ger. Werturteil.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English Oxford Collocations dictionary for students of Englishvalue
verb 1 decide how much sth is worth ADV. officially PREP. at The company has recently been valued at $6 billion. 2 think sb/sth is very important ADV. greatly, highly, particularly | increasingly | positively | negatively Housework is negatively valued as a retreat from a disliked alternative?employment work. | rightly the fear of losing the independence that they rightly value | socially one of the most socially valued roles in contemporary society?being a parent VERB + VALUE learn to learning to value the ordinary things in life PREP. as I value her very highly as a friend. | for He hated to be valued for his looks alone.
Oxford Collocations dictionary for students of Englishvalue
noun 1 amount of money that sth is worth ADJ. high, low the high value of the dollar | full, total | real, true | nominal a share with a nominal value of £20 | face At yesterday's auction an old coin sold for many times more than its face value of 20 pence. | residual a residual value of 10% of its original cost | resale Regular servicing will add to the resale value of your PC.
VERB + VALUE place, put, set It's hard to put a value on a company with large assets and turnover but low profits. | add | increase, raise | double, triple, etc. Dramatic developments on the stock market tripled the value of his shares. | lower, reduce | hold, keep The piano has held its value. | calculate, work out VALUE + VERB double, triple, etc. | appreciate, go up, increase | decrease, depreciate, fall, go down PREP. in ~ The land has dropped in value. | to the ~ of Jewellery to the value of a million pounds was stolen last night. PHRASES an increase/a rise in value, a drop/fall/reduction in value 2 how much sth is worth compared with its price ADJ. excellent, good, great, outstanding | poor PHRASES value for money Though a little more expensive, the larger model gives better value for money. 3 importance ADJ. enormous, great, high, immense, incalculable, tremendous | doubtful, dubious, limited, low His published account of his travels is of dubious value to other explorers. | lasting | main, real, true | practical, sentimental, symbolic VERB + VALUE have The stolen necklace only had sentimental value for her. | attach, place, put, set He places a high value on marriage. VALUE + VERB be, lie The real value of the book lies in its wonderful characterization. PREP. of ~ He didn't say anything of value. | ~ to Pottery fragments are of great value to archaeologists. 4 values: set of beliefs ADJ. dominant the dominant values of a society | conservative, conventional, traditional | common, shared, universal What shared values do you have with your friends? | human | aesthetic, cultural, educational, ethical, moral, political, social, spiritual We need to be guided by our moral values. | family The party's election campaign emphasized its belief in family values. | middle-class, Victorian, Western | parental the rejection of parental values by a child | democratic, liberal QUANT. set a prevailing set of cultural values VERB + VALUE have, hold They hold very middle-class values. | cherish, encourage, foster Is it the role of schools to foster spiritual values? | hold onto, preserve a society that has failed to preserve its traditional values VALUE + NOUN system a common value system Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7 ☞ valuevalue / 5vAlju: / nounHOW MUCH STH IS WORTH 价值 1. [U, C] how much sth is worth in money or other goods for which it can be exchanged (商品)价值: to go up / rise / increase in value 升/增值 to go down / fall / drop in value 贬值 rising property values 上涨中的房地产价值 The winner will receive a prize to the value of £1 000. 获胜者将得到价值为 1 000 英镑的奖项。 Sports cars tend to hold their value well. 跑车往往很能保值。 ⇨ see also market value , street value ⇨ note at price 2. [U] (especially BrE) how much sth is worth compared with its price (与价格相比的)值,划算程度: to be good / excellent value (= worth the money it costs) 很/极为合算 to be bad / poor value (= not worth the money it costs) 不上算；不值 Larger sizes give the best value for money. 较大尺寸的最划算。 BEING USEFUL / IMPORTANT 有用；重要 3. [U] the quality of being useful or important 用途；积极作用 SYN benefit : The value of regular exercise should not be underestimated. 经常锻炼的好处不应低估。 The arrival of canals was of great value to many industries. 运河的出现对许多行业具有重大的意义。 to be of little / no value to sb 对某人没什么/毫无帮助 This ring has great sentimental value for me. 这枚戒指对我来说很有纪念意义。 I suppose it has a certain novelty value (= it's interesting because it's new). 我觉得这有一定的新意。 food with a high nutritional value 营养价值高的食物 The story has very little news value. 这件事没有什么新闻价值。 BELIEFS 信念 4. values [pl.] beliefs about what is right and wrong and what is important in life 是非标准；生活准则；价值观: moral values 道德价值 a return to traditional values in education, such as firm discipline 恢复传统的教育准则,如严格的纪律 The young have a completely different set of values and expectations. 年轻人有一整套截然不同的价值观和期望。 MATHEMATICS 数学 5. [C] the amount represented by a letter or symbol 值；数值: Let y have the value 33. 假设 y 的值为 33。 verb[VN] CONSIDER IMPORTANT 认为重要 1. (not used in the progressive tenses 不用于进行时) ~ sb / sth (as sth) | ~ sb / sth (for sth) to think that sb / sth is important 重视；珍视: I really value him as a friend. 我真的把他视为好朋友。 The area is valued for its vineyards. 这个地区因它的葡萄园而受到重视。 a valued member of staff 职工中受重视的一员 DECIDE WORTH 决定价值 2. [usually passive] ~ sth (at sth) to decide that sth is worth a particular amount of money 给…估价；给…定价: The property has been valued at over $2 million. 这处房地产估价为 200 多万元。
value verb
⇨ appreciate (I value him as a friend.) ⇨ price (I got my violin valued.)
value noun
⇨ value 1 (the value of regular exercise) ⇨ value 2 (good value for money) ⇨ values (moral values) ⇨ price (property values) Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged Search result show the entry is found in: insurable value , or kauri-butanol value , or kirschner value , or koettstorfer value , or köttstorfer value , or labor theory of value , or loan value , or acetyl value , or market value , or market value clause , or mean value , or modal value , or nominal value , or nuisance value , or numerical value , or acid value , or par value , or physical value , or plus value , or polenske value , or present value , or q-value , or reichert value , or rental value insurance , or bearing value , or salvage value , or saponification value , or scrap value , or selection value , or standard of value , or stated value , or added value , or biological value , or surplus value , or surrender value , or survival value , or thiocyanogen value , or three-fourths value clause , or time value , or truth-value , or united states value , or unit of value , or unit value , or at value , or value added , or value date , or value judgment , or value of service , or value system , or v-value , or weighted value , or word value , or yield value , or book value , or characteristic value , or fair market value , or mean value theorem , or place value , or r-value , or value-added tax , or value-free , or breakup value , or bulking value , or no-par-value , or reichert-meissl value , or calorific value , or carrying value , or cash value , or commuted value , or absolute value , or critical value , or declared value , or diene value , or effective value , or expected value , or face value , or fair value , or f-value , or going-concern value , or guaranteed value , or half-value layer , or imputed value
val·ueI. \ˈval(ˌ)yü, -_yə ( this pronunc before a vowel or pause is especially South); often -_yəw+V; dial -lē or -li\ noun( -s) Usage: often attributiveEtymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin valuta, from feminine of (assumed) Vulgar Latin valutus, past participle of Latin valēre to be worth — more at wield 1. a. : the amount of a commodity, service, or medium of exchange that is the equivalent of something else : a fair return in goods, services, or money < the method of merchandising is to give the buyer good value at the right price — Wall Street Journal > < I take his wages because I give good value for them — John Buchan > — often used in plural < priced at levels that reflect … policy of passing on to the customer the ever greater values resulting from technological progress — A.P.Sloan & H.H.Curtice > < the store advertises great values at large savings > b. : valuable consideration < for value received > < a holder or purchaser for value >2. : the monetary worth of something : marketable price usually in terms of a medium of exchange < his holdings increase in value > < has the same value as the United States dollar — S.G.Inman > < fool's gold is of practically no value > < having a value of $5 >3. a. : relative worth, utility, or importance : degree of excellence : status in a scale of preferences < we know the value of a thing by the way it is sought, shunned, protected — H.N.Wieman > < he knew the precise value of men and could marshal them — A.H.Meneely > < learned the value of rest in the treatment of … tuberculosis — J.F.Fulton > < the physicist has become a military asset of such value — I.I.Rabi > < only a few … have anything of value to say — Edward Clodd > b. : a liking or regard for a person or thing < she had a value for rank and consequence — Jane Austen > < a sad man who, for all his gaiety … had little value for life — Joyce Cary >4. a. : a particular quantitative determination in mathematics < as the value of a increases, b decreases > < the values of the angles vary proportionately > b. : the amount or extent of a specified measurement of time, space, or quantity < values of the age of the earth determined by the geologists — S.F.Mason > < gives a fairly exact value of the constant temperature deeper down — Valter Schytt > < pressure maintained at sea level values — H.G.Armstrong >5. : the relative length or duration of a musical tone or note < a quarter note has the value of two eighth notes >6. : the relative rank, importance, or numerical worth of a playing card, chessman, or other game component < the ace is often given a different value in different forms of rummy >7. a. : lightness I 2 b. : value in the Munsell system — used in psychophysics; see the Color Charts explanation at color c. : the relation of one part or detail in a picture to another with respect to lightness and darkness 8. : something (as a principle, quality, or entity) intrinsically valuable or desirable < may call food a value for the animal — Samuel Alexander > < the devotee of … education and religion was keenly aware of value — A.H.Johnson >— often used in plural < defending the values of the classical … tradition — Current Biography > < all values are only relative to a given culture — Erich Fromm > < the business world with its regulated system of values — D.H.Lawrence > < for the sensate mentality … human values are hedonistic and utilitarian — David Bidney >9. : the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, or earth — usually used in plural < the vein carries good values > < values were discovered here in 1864 and a 10-stamp mill was soon at work — American Guide Series: Nevada >10. : denomination 4 < a new airmail value is to be issued here soon — National Stamp News >11. : the distinctive character or quality of a speech sound < an alphabet made up of letters with phonetic values — Charlton Laird > < in … Elhua the h really has the value of ch in the Scottish word loch — T.H.Gaster >12. : a term or an expression in logic that may replace a variable in a propositional function so that the resultant is a true or false statement < man is a value for x in the function x is rational >Synonyms: worth: value and worth are frequently differentiated more often by the demands of idiom than by differences in meaning or connotation. value may sometimes suggest an evaluation made from an individual or specific point of view or in an individual or special situation < have to comprehend the artist's own values — Havelock Ellis > < the ability of an ordinary Englishman to measure up to the times even though he must change his values — J.D.Hart > worth may suggest more lasting genuine merit resting on deeper, intrinsic, and enduring qualities < those qualities of the human personality which have an abiding worth under the tests of our civilization — Henry Suzzallo > < having gained a more judicious knowledge of the worth and dignity of individual man — William Wordsworth > < this book on navigation has chapters of varying worth >• - at value II. transitive verb( -ed/-ing/-s) 1. a. : to estimate or assign the monetary worth of : appraise < gave me a piece of his amethyst and I planned to have it properly valued — Edwin Corle > < merchandise inventories will be valued at the end of the year > — often used with at < values his holdings at $3,000,000 > < the institution values its plant and endowment at several million > b. : to rate or scale in usefulness, importance, or general worth : evaluate < impressions which she had long since arranged and valued in her mind — Mary Deasy > < search and value every element in the conflict before him — Thomas De Quincey >2. : to consider or rate highly : prize , esteem < from his parents … he learned to value education — Current Biography > < responded to and valued pleasant friendships — Ruth P. Randall > < valued himself on his tolerance of heresy in great thinkers — Robert Frost >3. archaic : to show concern for : heed Synonyms: see appreciate , estimate
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