English words for 'The comparative study of value systems.'
Closest matches for "The comparative study of value systems." are ranked by semantic fit across dictionary definitions.
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noun
- (management) Initialism of value analysis.
- Initialism of visual arts.
- Initialism of volt-ampere.
- (music) Initialism of various artists.
- Initialism of voice artist.
- Initialism of veterans' affairs.
- Initialism of virtual assistant.
- (computing) Initialism of virtual address.
- (electronics) Initialism of vertical alignment (“LCD screen technology”).
- Initialism of voice actor.
- Initialism of voice actress.
- the United States federal department responsible for the interests of military veterans; created in 1989
adj
name
verb
- To determine or estimate the value of; to judge the worth of.
- To hold dear; to cherish.
- To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon.
- regard highly; think much of
- fix or determine the value of; assign a value to
- estimate the value of
- evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of
- hold dear
noun
- The quality that renders something desirable or valuable; worth.
- (art) The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
- (uncountable) The degree of importance given to something.
- (mathematics, physics) Any definite numerical quantity or other mathematical object, determined by being measured, computed, or otherwise defined.
- (often plural) That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system.
- (in the plural) The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treating a mass or compound; specifically, the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, etc.
- (music) The relative duration of a musical note.
- The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
- Precise meaning; import.
- a numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed
- the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
- relative darkness or lightness of a color
- (music) the relative duration of a musical note
- the amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else
- an ideal accepted by some individual or group
noun
- an appraisal of the value of something
- act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of
- An assessment, such as an annual personnel performance review used as the basis for a salary increase or bonus, or a summary of a particular situation.
- (mathematics) A completion of a mathematical operation; a valuation.
- (computing, programming) Determination of the value of a variable or expression.
noun
- an appraisal of the value of something
- act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of
- rank in a military organization
- standing or position on a scale
- (nautical, British) An enlisted seaman not a commissioned officer or warrant officer.
- (nautical) A seaman in a warship.
- An evaluation of status, especially of financial status.
- A number, letter, or other mark that refers to the ability of something.
- A quantitative measure of the audience of a television program.
- A position on a scale.
verb
noun
- an appraisal of the value of something
- assessed price
- (logic, propositional logic, model theory) An assignment of truth values to propositional variables, with a corresponding assignment of truth values to all propositional formulas with those variables (obtained through the recursive application of truth-valued functions corresponding to the logical connectives making up those formulas).
- An estimation of something's worth.
- (measure theory, domain theory) A map from the class of open sets of a topological space to the set of positive real numbers including infinity.
- (logic, first-order logic, model theory) A structure, and the corresponding assignment of a truth value to each sentence in the language for that structure.
- (algebra) A measure of size or multiplicity.
- (finance, insurance) The process of estimating the value of a financial asset or liability.
verb
- To judge, value, or appraise.
- (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
- To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
- (often with out or off) To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with.
- (stative) To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement)
- To estimate the unit size of something.
- (transitive) To regulate or control (one's actions, speech, etc.), as if one were carefully measuring their length or quantity.
- To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
- To adjust by a rule or standard.
- determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of
- have certain dimensions
- evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of
- express as a number or measure or quantity
noun
- A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion.
- The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.)
- (poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.
- Any of various standard units of capacity.
- (now chiefly cooking) A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance.
- (in the plural) Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans.
- A piece of legislation.
- (mathematics, measure theory) A function which obeys a particular set of formal conditions, created to generalize and rigorize the notions of length, volume, and probability. Formally, a non-negative, countably additive set function on a sigma-algebra; see Measure (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements.
- An (unspecified) portion or quantity.
- (geology) A bed or stratum.
- A unit of measurement.
- A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.)
- (music) A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar.
- measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements
- the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
- musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
- a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated
- how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
- a statute in draft before it becomes law
noun
noun
- Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
- the high value or worth of something
- The cost required to gain possession of something.
- The cost of an action or deed.
- cost of bribing someone
- value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something
- the amount of money needed to purchase something
- the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)
- a monetary reward for helping to catch a criminal
verb
noun
- The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value or worth; market value.
- A geographical area or region where a certain commercial demand exists.
- Any physical store selling groceries, such as a grocery store or convenience store.
- The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
- A relatively spacious outdoor or covered site where traders set up stalls, either temporarily or permanently or semi-permanently, and buyers browse the merchandise.
- A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise, often periodic at a set time.
- A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.
- A group of potential or current customers for one's product.
- the customers for a particular product or service
- a marketplace where groceries are sold
- an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up
- the securities markets in the aggregate
- the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold
verb
- (transitive) To sell.
- (intransitive) To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
- (transitive) To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
- (transitive) To promote for or as if for sale.
- (intransitive) To shop in a market; to attend a market.
- deal in a market
- make commercial
- engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of
- buy household supplies
noun
- (countable, finance) Initialism of present value.
- (countable, control theory) Initialism of process variable.
- (countable, anatomy, medicine) Initialism of pulmonary valve.
- (uncountable, medicine) Initialism of pemphigus vulgaris.
- (countable, grammar) Initialism of phrasal verb.
- (countable, Japan) Initialism of promotional video.
- (countable) Initialism of probation violation.
- (uncountable, medicine) Initialism of polycythemia vera.
- (uncountable) Initialism of pharmacovigilance.
adj
adv
noun
- the quality of having high intrinsic value
- the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth
- the property of a sensation that is rich and pleasing
- a strong deep vividness of hue
- splendid or imposing in size or appearance
- abundant wealth
- the property of being extremely abundant
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being rich; wealthiness, wealth, riches.
- (countable) The result or product of being rich.
- (uncountable) The state of having many examples or cases; abundance; profusion.
- (ecology) The number of types in a community.
noun
- the reduction of something's value or worth
- an official lowering of a nation's currency; a decrease in the value of a country's currency relative to that of foreign countries
- Depreciation.
- The removal or lessening of something's value.
- (economics) The intentional or deliberate lowering of a currency's value compared to another country's currency or a standard value (e.g. the price of gold).
noun
- the apparent worth as opposed to the real worth
- the value of a security that is set by the company issuing it; unrelated to market value
- The amount or value listed on a bill, card, note, stamp, etc.; the stated value or amount.
- (idiomatic) No more or less than what is stated; a literal or direct meaning or interpretation.
noun
- an estimation of the value of a business
- the sale of capital stock
- the act of capitalizing on an opportunity
- writing in capital letters
- (in particular) The act or process of writing (something: either an entire word or text, or just the initial letter(s) thereof) in capital letters.
- The total value of all outstanding shares for a publicly traded company
- Choice of case (when writing a word); the act or process of writing a word in a particular case, such as ALL CAPS, Title Case, CamelCase, Sentence case, or all lowercase.
- The act or process of seizing (an opportunity) and profiting or obtaining an advantage (from it).
- The state of having a particular case, such as ALL CAPS or all lowercase.
- The state of being capitalised.
noun
adj
- (medicine, by extension) In such a condition.
- Inclined to find fault or criticize.
- Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
- Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
- (physics) Of a temperature that is equal to the temperature of the critical point of a substance, i.e. the temperature above which the substance cannot be liquefied.
- (textual criticism) Employing or related to textual criticism, particularly through a stemmatological comparison of all extant texts and reconstruction of the original.
- Extremely important.
- (medicine) Of a patient condition involving unstable vital signs and a prognosis that predicts the condition could worsen; or, a patient condition that requires urgent treatment in an intensive care or critical care medical facility.
- (physics) Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.
- (botany) Needing great discrimination to be correctly classified; easily confused.
- Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
- at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction
- marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws
- urgently needed; absolutely necessary
- characterized by careful evaluation and judgment
- of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism
- forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis
- being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency
noun
- Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
- importance or value
- An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
- A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
- (banking) A bank account.
- (uncountable) Profit; advantage.
- A record of events; a relation or narrative.
- Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
- (accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review.
- A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
- a record or narrative description of past events
- a formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services
- the quality of taking advantage
- a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.
- grounds
- a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance
- a short account of the news
- the act of informing by verbal report
- an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered
verb
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain.
- (intransitive) To establish the location for someone.
- (transitive) To estimate, consider (something to be as described).
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for.
- (intransitive) To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for).
- (intransitive) To consider that.
- Used in phrasal verbs: account for, account of, account to.
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc.
- keep an account of
- to give an account or representation of in words
- be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something
- furnish a justifying analysis or explanation
noun
verb
adj
adj
- (economics) Having or pertaining to a value that is a function of its social desirability, as opposed to its utility.
- (programming) An argument that is passed to a subroutine according to its position in the invocation code, rather than on its name; compare with named.
- (chess) Based on long-term strategy, on gaining and exploiting small advantages, and on analyzing the larger position, rather than calculating more immediate tactics.
- Relating to the position of something.
- of or relating to or determined by position
noun
noun
- property that has economic utility: a monetary value or an exchange value
- an abundance of material possessions and resources
- the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money
- the quality of profuse abundance
- (uncountable, economics) Riches; a great amount of valuable assets or material possessions.
- (countable) A great amount; an abundance or plenty.
adj
noun
verb
adj
noun
noun
- Initialism of tax value.
- (colloquial, countable, uncountable) Abbreviation of television.
- (countable, anatomy, medicine) Initialism of tricuspid valve.
- (physiology, medicine) Initialism of tidal volume.
- (pop culture, music) Initialism of Taylor's Version.
- broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects
noun
- Initialism of approximate retail value.
- (ufology) Initialism of alien reproduction vehicle.
- (UK) Initialism of armed response vehicle: a police car that carries firearms.
- (pharmacology) Initialism of antiretroviral.
- (medicine) Initialism of antiretroviral.
- (military) Initialism of armored recovery vehicle.
noun
adj
noun
- (slang, by extension) The value in money that this represents.
- (slang) A banknote with a value of five units of currency.
- (religion) A person who gives five percent of their income or five hours a week of their time to charity (a reduction of ten percent tithing).
- (Islam) A Zaydi Shiite Muslim, who disagrees with the majority of Shiites on the identity of the Fifth Imam.
- A mathematical puzzle played on a 5 × 5 grid.
- (colloquial) A clenched fist.
- a United States bill worth 5 dollars
noun
- The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another.
- Any of various taxes, especially those levied by a local authority.
- (horology) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time.
- A wage calculated in relation to a unit of time.
- Speed.
- The relative speed of change or progress.
- A set price or charge for all examples of a given case, commodity, service etc.
- The price of (an individual) thing; cost.
- (nautical) A class into which ships were assigned based on condition, size etc.; by extension, rank.
- amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis
- a quantity or amount or measure considered as a proportion of another quantity or amount or measure
- the relative speed of progress or change
- a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit
verb
- (transitive, informal) To like; to think highly of.
- (transitive) To ratify.
- (transitive) To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level.
- (transitive) To determine the limits of safe functioning for a machine or electrical device.
- (intransitive) To have position (in a certain class).
- (transitive, horse racing) To take action to slow down the pace of the horse one is riding.
- (intransitive) To have value or standing.
- (transitive, chiefly British) To evaluate a property's value for the purposes of local taxation.
- (transitive) To ascertain the exact rate of the gain or loss of (a chronometer) as compared with true time.
- (transitive) To deserve; to be worth.
- (transitive) To consider or regard.
- (transitive) To evaluate or estimate the value of.
- be worthy of or have a certain rating
- assign a rank or rating to
- estimate the value of
noun
name
adj
- (economics) Sensitive to changes in price.
- Able to return quickly to a former state or condition, after being depressed or overtaxed; having power to recover easily from shocks and trials.
- Capable of stretching; particularly, capable of stretching so as to return to an original shape or size when force is released.
- springy; bouncy; vivacious
- Made of elastic.
- Of clothing, elasticated.
- Pervasive, all-encompassing.
- capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression; springy
- able to adjust readily to different conditions
noun
noun
- A judgment or assessment of the value of something, especially a formal one.
- The act or process of developing an opinion of value.
- the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth
- a document appraising the value of something (as for insurance or taxation)
- an expert estimation of the quality, quantity, and other characteristics of someone or something
noun
- A rise in value.
- The act of appreciating.
- Accurate perception; true estimation.
- A fair valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence; gratitude and esteem.
- delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values)
- an increase in price or value
- an expression of gratitude
- understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something
- a favorable judgment
noun
- (management) Initialism of value analysis.
- Initialism of visual arts.
- Initialism of volt-ampere.
- (music) Initialism of various artists.
- Initialism of voice artist.
- Initialism of veterans' affairs.
- Initialism of virtual assistant.
- (computing) Initialism of virtual address.
- (electronics) Initialism of vertical alignment (“LCD screen technology”).
- Initialism of voice actor.
- Initialism of voice actress.
- the United States federal department responsible for the interests of military veterans; created in 1989
adj
name
noun
- an appraisal of the value of something
- act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of
- An assessment, such as an annual personnel performance review used as the basis for a salary increase or bonus, or a summary of a particular situation.
- (mathematics) A completion of a mathematical operation; a valuation.
- (computing, programming) Determination of the value of a variable or expression.
noun
- an appraisal of the value of something
- act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of
- rank in a military organization
- standing or position on a scale
- (nautical, British) An enlisted seaman not a commissioned officer or warrant officer.
- (nautical) A seaman in a warship.
- An evaluation of status, especially of financial status.
- A number, letter, or other mark that refers to the ability of something.
- A quantitative measure of the audience of a television program.
- A position on a scale.
verb
noun
- an appraisal of the value of something
- assessed price
- (logic, propositional logic, model theory) An assignment of truth values to propositional variables, with a corresponding assignment of truth values to all propositional formulas with those variables (obtained through the recursive application of truth-valued functions corresponding to the logical connectives making up those formulas).
- An estimation of something's worth.
- (measure theory, domain theory) A map from the class of open sets of a topological space to the set of positive real numbers including infinity.
- (logic, first-order logic, model theory) A structure, and the corresponding assignment of a truth value to each sentence in the language for that structure.
- (algebra) A measure of size or multiplicity.
- (finance, insurance) The process of estimating the value of a financial asset or liability.
noun
noun
- Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
- the high value or worth of something
- The cost required to gain possession of something.
- The cost of an action or deed.
- cost of bribing someone
- value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something
- the amount of money needed to purchase something
- the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)
- a monetary reward for helping to catch a criminal
verb
noun
- The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value or worth; market value.
- A geographical area or region where a certain commercial demand exists.
- Any physical store selling groceries, such as a grocery store or convenience store.
- The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
- A relatively spacious outdoor or covered site where traders set up stalls, either temporarily or permanently or semi-permanently, and buyers browse the merchandise.
- A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise, often periodic at a set time.
- A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.
- A group of potential or current customers for one's product.
- the customers for a particular product or service
- a marketplace where groceries are sold
- an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up
- the securities markets in the aggregate
- the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold
verb
- (transitive) To sell.
- (intransitive) To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
- (transitive) To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
- (transitive) To promote for or as if for sale.
- (intransitive) To shop in a market; to attend a market.
- deal in a market
- make commercial
- engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of
- buy household supplies
noun
- (countable, finance) Initialism of present value.
- (countable, control theory) Initialism of process variable.
- (countable, anatomy, medicine) Initialism of pulmonary valve.
- (uncountable, medicine) Initialism of pemphigus vulgaris.
- (countable, grammar) Initialism of phrasal verb.
- (countable, Japan) Initialism of promotional video.
- (countable) Initialism of probation violation.
- (uncountable, medicine) Initialism of polycythemia vera.
- (uncountable) Initialism of pharmacovigilance.
adj
adv
noun
- the quality of having high intrinsic value
- the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth
- the property of a sensation that is rich and pleasing
- a strong deep vividness of hue
- splendid or imposing in size or appearance
- abundant wealth
- the property of being extremely abundant
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being rich; wealthiness, wealth, riches.
- (countable) The result or product of being rich.
- (uncountable) The state of having many examples or cases; abundance; profusion.
- (ecology) The number of types in a community.
noun
- the reduction of something's value or worth
- an official lowering of a nation's currency; a decrease in the value of a country's currency relative to that of foreign countries
- Depreciation.
- The removal or lessening of something's value.
- (economics) The intentional or deliberate lowering of a currency's value compared to another country's currency or a standard value (e.g. the price of gold).
noun
- the apparent worth as opposed to the real worth
- the value of a security that is set by the company issuing it; unrelated to market value
- The amount or value listed on a bill, card, note, stamp, etc.; the stated value or amount.
- (idiomatic) No more or less than what is stated; a literal or direct meaning or interpretation.
noun
- an estimation of the value of a business
- the sale of capital stock
- the act of capitalizing on an opportunity
- writing in capital letters
- (in particular) The act or process of writing (something: either an entire word or text, or just the initial letter(s) thereof) in capital letters.
- The total value of all outstanding shares for a publicly traded company
- Choice of case (when writing a word); the act or process of writing a word in a particular case, such as ALL CAPS, Title Case, CamelCase, Sentence case, or all lowercase.
- The act or process of seizing (an opportunity) and profiting or obtaining an advantage (from it).
- The state of having a particular case, such as ALL CAPS or all lowercase.
- The state of being capitalised.
noun
adj
- (medicine, by extension) In such a condition.
- Inclined to find fault or criticize.
- Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
- Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
- (physics) Of a temperature that is equal to the temperature of the critical point of a substance, i.e. the temperature above which the substance cannot be liquefied.
- (textual criticism) Employing or related to textual criticism, particularly through a stemmatological comparison of all extant texts and reconstruction of the original.
- Extremely important.
- (medicine) Of a patient condition involving unstable vital signs and a prognosis that predicts the condition could worsen; or, a patient condition that requires urgent treatment in an intensive care or critical care medical facility.
- (physics) Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.
- (botany) Needing great discrimination to be correctly classified; easily confused.
- Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
- at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction
- marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws
- urgently needed; absolutely necessary
- characterized by careful evaluation and judgment
- of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism
- forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis
- being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency
noun
- Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
- importance or value
- An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
- A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
- (banking) A bank account.
- (uncountable) Profit; advantage.
- A record of events; a relation or narrative.
- Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
- (accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review.
- A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
- a record or narrative description of past events
- a formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services
- the quality of taking advantage
- a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.
- grounds
- a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance
- a short account of the news
- the act of informing by verbal report
- an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered
verb
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain.
- (intransitive) To establish the location for someone.
- (transitive) To estimate, consider (something to be as described).
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for.
- (intransitive) To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for).
- (intransitive) To consider that.
- Used in phrasal verbs: account for, account of, account to.
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc.
- keep an account of
- to give an account or representation of in words
- be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something
- furnish a justifying analysis or explanation
noun
noun
- property that has economic utility: a monetary value or an exchange value
- an abundance of material possessions and resources
- the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money
- the quality of profuse abundance
- (uncountable, economics) Riches; a great amount of valuable assets or material possessions.
- (countable) A great amount; an abundance or plenty.
noun
- Initialism of tax value.
- (colloquial, countable, uncountable) Abbreviation of television.
- (countable, anatomy, medicine) Initialism of tricuspid valve.
- (physiology, medicine) Initialism of tidal volume.
- (pop culture, music) Initialism of Taylor's Version.
- broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects
noun
- Initialism of approximate retail value.
- (ufology) Initialism of alien reproduction vehicle.
- (UK) Initialism of armed response vehicle: a police car that carries firearms.
- (pharmacology) Initialism of antiretroviral.
- (medicine) Initialism of antiretroviral.
- (military) Initialism of armored recovery vehicle.
noun
adj
noun
- (slang, by extension) The value in money that this represents.
- (slang) A banknote with a value of five units of currency.
- (religion) A person who gives five percent of their income or five hours a week of their time to charity (a reduction of ten percent tithing).
- (Islam) A Zaydi Shiite Muslim, who disagrees with the majority of Shiites on the identity of the Fifth Imam.
- A mathematical puzzle played on a 5 × 5 grid.
- (colloquial) A clenched fist.
- a United States bill worth 5 dollars
noun
- The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another.
- Any of various taxes, especially those levied by a local authority.
- (horology) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time.
- A wage calculated in relation to a unit of time.
- Speed.
- The relative speed of change or progress.
- A set price or charge for all examples of a given case, commodity, service etc.
- The price of (an individual) thing; cost.
- (nautical) A class into which ships were assigned based on condition, size etc.; by extension, rank.
- amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis
- a quantity or amount or measure considered as a proportion of another quantity or amount or measure
- the relative speed of progress or change
- a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit
verb
- (transitive, informal) To like; to think highly of.
- (transitive) To ratify.
- (transitive) To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level.
- (transitive) To determine the limits of safe functioning for a machine or electrical device.
- (intransitive) To have position (in a certain class).
- (transitive, horse racing) To take action to slow down the pace of the horse one is riding.
- (intransitive) To have value or standing.
- (transitive, chiefly British) To evaluate a property's value for the purposes of local taxation.
- (transitive) To ascertain the exact rate of the gain or loss of (a chronometer) as compared with true time.
- (transitive) To deserve; to be worth.
- (transitive) To consider or regard.
- (transitive) To evaluate or estimate the value of.
- be worthy of or have a certain rating
- assign a rank or rating to
- estimate the value of
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- A judgment or assessment of the value of something, especially a formal one.
- The act or process of developing an opinion of value.
- the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth
- a document appraising the value of something (as for insurance or taxation)
- an expert estimation of the quality, quantity, and other characteristics of someone or something
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- A rise in value.
- The act of appreciating.
- Accurate perception; true estimation.
- A fair valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence; gratitude and esteem.
- delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values)
- an increase in price or value
- an expression of gratitude
- understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something
- a favorable judgment
verb
- To determine or estimate the value of; to judge the worth of.
- To hold dear; to cherish.
- To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon.
- regard highly; think much of
- fix or determine the value of; assign a value to
- estimate the value of
- evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of
- hold dear
noun
- The quality that renders something desirable or valuable; worth.
- (art) The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
- (uncountable) The degree of importance given to something.
- (mathematics, physics) Any definite numerical quantity or other mathematical object, determined by being measured, computed, or otherwise defined.
- (often plural) That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system.
- (in the plural) The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treating a mass or compound; specifically, the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, etc.
- (music) The relative duration of a musical note.
- The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
- Precise meaning; import.
- a numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed
- the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
- relative darkness or lightness of a color
- (music) the relative duration of a musical note
- the amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else
- an ideal accepted by some individual or group
verb
- To judge, value, or appraise.
- (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
- To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
- (often with out or off) To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with.
- (stative) To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement)
- To estimate the unit size of something.
- (transitive) To regulate or control (one's actions, speech, etc.), as if one were carefully measuring their length or quantity.
- To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
- To adjust by a rule or standard.
- determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of
- have certain dimensions
- evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of
- express as a number or measure or quantity
noun
- A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion.
- The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.)
- (poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.
- Any of various standard units of capacity.
- (now chiefly cooking) A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance.
- (in the plural) Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans.
- A piece of legislation.
- (mathematics, measure theory) A function which obeys a particular set of formal conditions, created to generalize and rigorize the notions of length, volume, and probability. Formally, a non-negative, countably additive set function on a sigma-algebra; see Measure (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements.
- An (unspecified) portion or quantity.
- (geology) A bed or stratum.
- A unit of measurement.
- A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.)
- (music) A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar.
- measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements
- the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
- musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
- a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated
- how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
- a statute in draft before it becomes law
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- (economics) Having or pertaining to a value that is a function of its social desirability, as opposed to its utility.
- (programming) An argument that is passed to a subroutine according to its position in the invocation code, rather than on its name; compare with named.
- (chess) Based on long-term strategy, on gaining and exploiting small advantages, and on analyzing the larger position, rather than calculating more immediate tactics.
- Relating to the position of something.
- of or relating to or determined by position
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- (economics) Sensitive to changes in price.
- Able to return quickly to a former state or condition, after being depressed or overtaxed; having power to recover easily from shocks and trials.
- Capable of stretching; particularly, capable of stretching so as to return to an original shape or size when force is released.
- springy; bouncy; vivacious
- Made of elastic.
- Of clothing, elasticated.
- Pervasive, all-encompassing.
- capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression; springy
- able to adjust readily to different conditions