English words for 'the study of values and value judgments'
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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
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
- 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
- rank in a military organization
- act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of
- 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
- An estimation of something's worth.
- 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).
- (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
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.
- the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
- (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
- 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
adj
noun
verb
noun
- The act or process of developing an opinion of value.
- A judgment or assessment of the value of something, especially a formal one.
- 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
- 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 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
- (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
- the quality of being near to the true value
- conformity to reality or actuality
- a fact that has been verified
- a true statement
- That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality.
- The state or quality of being true to someone or something.
- True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
- (games) In the game truth or dare, the choice to truthfully answer a question put forth.
- Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.
- Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.
- (countable) Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
verb
noun
adj
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
- 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 quality of being valueless or futile
- feelings of excessive pride
- the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride
- low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup
- A washbasin installed into a permanently fixed storage unit, used as an item of bathroom furniture.
- A dressing table used to apply makeup, preen, and coif hair, in which the table is normally quite low and similar to a desk.
- Excessive pride in or admiration of one's own abilities, appearance, achievements, or possessions.
- That which is vain, futile, or worthless; that which is of no value, use or profit.
noun
- The meaning, reason, or value of something.
- Sound practical or moral judgment.
- (mathematics) One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.
- (semantics, lexicography) A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries or definitions for a word in a dictionary.
- Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
- A natural appreciation or ability.
- Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
- A meaning of a term (word or expression), among its various meanings.
- (pragmatics) The way that a referent is presented.
- (biochemistry) referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.
- (mathematics) One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
- the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted
- a natural appreciation or ability
- sound practical judgment
- the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
- a general conscious awareness
verb
noun
- (philosophy) A system of ethics based on the premise that something's value may be measured by its usefulness.
- Practicality, functionality, as opposed to e.g. aesthetics.
- (philosophy) The theory that action should be directed toward achieving the "greatest happiness for the greatest number of people" (hedonistic universalism), or one of various related theories.
- doctrine that the useful is the good; especially as elaborated by Jeremy Bentham and James Mill; the aim was said to be the greatest happiness for the greatest number
verb
adj
noun
- Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.
- That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.
- That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
- An honour or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort.
- A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever.
- (military, nautical) Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; especially, property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.
- goods or money obtained illegally
- something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery
- something given as a token of victory
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
- 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
- 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
- rank in a military organization
- act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of
- 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
- An estimation of something's worth.
- 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).
- (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
- The act or process of developing an opinion of value.
- A judgment or assessment of the value of something, especially a formal one.
- 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
- 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 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
- (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
- the quality of being near to the true value
- conformity to reality or actuality
- a fact that has been verified
- a true statement
- That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality.
- The state or quality of being true to someone or something.
- True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
- (games) In the game truth or dare, the choice to truthfully answer a question put forth.
- Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.
- Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.
- (countable) Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
verb
noun
adj
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.
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.
- the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
- (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
- 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
- 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 quality of being valueless or futile
- feelings of excessive pride
- the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride
- low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup
- A washbasin installed into a permanently fixed storage unit, used as an item of bathroom furniture.
- A dressing table used to apply makeup, preen, and coif hair, in which the table is normally quite low and similar to a desk.
- Excessive pride in or admiration of one's own abilities, appearance, achievements, or possessions.
- That which is vain, futile, or worthless; that which is of no value, use or profit.
noun
- The meaning, reason, or value of something.
- Sound practical or moral judgment.
- (mathematics) One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.
- (semantics, lexicography) A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries or definitions for a word in a dictionary.
- Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
- A natural appreciation or ability.
- Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
- A meaning of a term (word or expression), among its various meanings.
- (pragmatics) The way that a referent is presented.
- (biochemistry) referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.
- (mathematics) One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
- the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted
- a natural appreciation or ability
- sound practical judgment
- the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
- a general conscious awareness
verb
noun
- (philosophy) A system of ethics based on the premise that something's value may be measured by its usefulness.
- Practicality, functionality, as opposed to e.g. aesthetics.
- (philosophy) The theory that action should be directed toward achieving the "greatest happiness for the greatest number of people" (hedonistic universalism), or one of various related theories.
- doctrine that the useful is the good; especially as elaborated by Jeremy Bentham and James Mill; the aim was said to be the greatest happiness for the greatest number
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
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
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.
- the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
- (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
- 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
adj
noun
- Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.
- That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.
- That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
- An honour or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort.
- A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever.
- (military, nautical) Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; especially, property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.
- goods or money obtained illegally
- something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery
- something given as a token of victory