Word Finder - value

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

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The Shakespearean Shylock is of dubious value in the modern world.

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• worth

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The degree of importance given to something.

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The value of my children's happiness is second only to that of my wife.

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That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system.

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He does not share his parents' values.

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

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The relative duration of a musical note.

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The value of a crotchet is twice that of a quaver.

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The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.

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Any definite numerical quantity or other mathematical object, determined by being measured, computed, or otherwise defined.

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The exact value of pi cannot be represented in decimal notation.

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Precise meaning; import.

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the value of a word; the value of a legal instrument

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(in the plural) The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treating a mass or compound; specifically, the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, etc.

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The vein carries good values.

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Esteem; regard.

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Valour; also spelled valew.

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To estimate the value of; judge the worth of something.

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I will have the family jewels valued by a professional.

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To fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work.

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To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon.

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Gold was valued highly among the Romans.

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To hold dear.

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I value these old photographs.

That would increase the value of the house.

That was its value to him.

The atomic theory has been of priceless value to chemists, but it has more than once happened in the history of science that a hypothesis, after having been useful in the discovery Present and the co-ordination of knowledge, has been aban- position doned and replaced by one more in harmony with later of the discoveries.

The debts amounted to double the value of the property.

As to the serfs the only indication was that three out of their huge retinue disappeared during the night, but nothing was stolen; and as to the value of their possessions, the thirty peasant carts that had come in from their estates and which many people envied proved to be extremely valuable and they were offered enormous sums of money for them.

I know it has sentimental value to you because your dad bought it new.

He had no regard for the sentimental value of the farm where she grew up, nor any confidence that she was capable of running it.

It has no value to anyone but me.

I'm content to give them fair value for their bucks and try my best to see that they enjoy themselves.

The first book that gave me any real sense of the value of history was Swinton's "World History," which I received on my thirteenth birthday.

Didn't he realize that your happiness had value too?

Fetch it on, but don't cook it, as you value your life.

Increasing value stored in intangibles.

I value your friendship and wish you to have as good an opinion of me.

To comprehend the real position we are forced to the conviction that the world of facts is the field in which, and that laws are the means by which, those higher standards of moral and aesthetical value are being realized; and such a union can again only become intelligible through the idea of a personal Deity, who in the creation and preservation of a world has voluntarily chosen certain forms and laws, through the natural operation of which the ends of His work are gained.

She left everything of value she owned at Wynn's.

To the last he believed that the attacking force would at least have spared his house, which contained official records of priceless value, but he was doomed to see his faith falsified.

The first is that we all value things differently, such as in our jelly bean example.

He understood the value of a gentle caress and a soft spoken word.

Not only was the paper money valueless which Napoleon so graciously distributed to the unfortunate, but even silver lost its value in relation to gold.

I define wisdom as deriving a course of action from applying a value system to a situation.

That means that as you get more of them, you value each new one less.

They abused the police and bribed them, made out estimates at ten times their value for government stores that had perished in the fire, and demanded relief.

I been meaning to check out their value on the computer.

I shall prize the little book always, not only for its own value; but because of its associations with you.

He could not understand the value or significance of any word or deed taken separately.

And he will find he is capable of adding far more value than as a set of eyes watching a screen.

Although slavery still exists and the low price of slaves speaks to the low value of a human life, the legal institution of slavery is gone.

The doctor who attended Pierre and visited him every day, though he considered it his duty as a doctor to pose as a man whose every moment was of value to suffering humanity, would sit for hours with Pierre telling him his favorite anecdotes and his observations on the characters of his patients in general, and especially of the ladies.

And remember, it can be obtained both by a plummeting cost and an increasing value of the thing to you.

This equation does not give us the value of the unknown factor but gives us a ratio between two unknowns.

But after two hours with Cynthia Byrne, he had to fight the inclination to take all of her comments at face value, thereby kissing off any degree of objectivity.

Trading is able to create value for two reasons.

I take things from my attic and my garage and sell them to people who value them more than I do.

Those are the things that have true value.

It is an attempt to capture the essence of the change, not the nominal value of the multiplier.

If you knew all the joy I feel in being able to speak to you to-day, I think you would have some idea of the value of speech to the deaf, and you would understand why I want every little deaf child in all this great world to have an opportunity to learn to speak.

When you trade with someone in a free market, you are giving up something you have for something the other person has, which you value more.

I use playing cards marked in the upper right-hand corner with braille symbols which indicate the value of the card.

Among the sea fish, the schnapper is of great value as an article of food, and its weight comes up to 50 lb.

Baker and Smith of the Sydney Technical College, have brought to light many other valuable products likely to prove of commercial value.

Up to the end of 1904 Australia had produced silver to the value of £45,000,000.

The differences between the Neotropical avifauna and that of North America are fundamental and prove the independence or superior value of the Neotropical region as one of the principal realms.

In 1900 the state ranked second and in 1905 first of all the states of the country in the value of this product; in 1905 the state's product amounted to 41.4% of that of the entire country.

The manufacture of cigars and cigarettes (almost entirely of cigars, few cigarettes being manufactured), carried on chiefly by Cubans at Key West and Tampa, also increased in importance between 1890 and 1900, the products in the latter year being valued at $10,735,826, or more than one-quarter more than in 1890, and in 1905 there was a further increase of 56.2%, the gross value being $16,764,276, or nearly one-third of the total factory product of the state.

Pig iron is manufactured cheaply because of the low price of fuel; in 1907 the value of pig iron manufactured in the state was $6,454,000.

The total value of all clay products in West Virginia was $3,261,736 in 1908.

The value of the factory product in 1905 was $99,040,676.

Natural facilities for transportation, afforded by the Ohio river and its branches, the Monongahela, at the northern end of the state, and the Little Kanawha and the Great Kanawha, are of special value for the shipment of lumber and coal.

A homestead not exceeding $1000 in value may be set apart, provided that it is recorded before the debt against which it was claimed was contracted.