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VOLUME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together
Example:
he used a large book as a doorstop
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("volume" is a kind of...):
product; production (an artifact that has been created by someone or some process)
Meronyms (parts of "volume"):
backbone; spine (the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved)
fore edge; foredge (the part of a book that faces inward when the book is shelved; the part opposite the spine)
back; binding; book binding; cover (the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "volume"):
album (a book of blank pages with pockets or envelopes; for organizing photographs or stamp collections etc)
coffee-table book (an elaborate oversize book suitable for displaying on a coffee table)
folio (a book (or manuscript) consisting of large sheets of paper folded in the middle to make two leaves or four pages)
hardback; hardcover (a book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers)
journal (a record book as a physical object)
novel (a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction)
order book (a book in which customers' orders are entered; usually makes multiple copies of the order)
paper-back book; paperback; paperback book; soft-cover; soft-cover book; softback; softback book (a book with paper covers)
picture book (a book consisting chiefly of pictures)
sketch block; sketch pad; sketchbook (a book containing sheets of paper on which sketches can be drawn)
notebook (a book with blank pages for recording notes or memoranda)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction)
Example:
the kids played their music at full volume
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("volume" is a kind of...):
sound property (an attribute of sound)
Attribute:
loud (characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity)
soft ((of sound) relatively low in volume)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "volume"):
crescendo ((music) a gradual increase in loudness)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The property of something that is great in magnitude
Example:
the volume of exports
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("volume" is a kind of...):
magnitude (the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "volume"):
dollar volume; turnover (the volume measured in dollars)
Derivation:
voluminous (large in volume or bulk)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A publication that is one of a set of several similar publications
Example:
he asked for the 1989 volume of the Annual Review
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("volume" is a kind of...):
publication (a copy of a printed work offered for distribution)
Holonyms ("volume" is a member of...):
set (a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object
Example:
the gas expanded to twice its original volume
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("volume" is a kind of...):
amount; measure; quantity (how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify)
Meronyms (parts of "volume"):
capacity measure; capacity unit; cubage unit; cubature unit; cubic content unit; cubic measure; displacement unit; volume unit (a unit of measurement of volume or capacity)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "volume"):
capacity; content (the amount that can be contained)
Derivation:
voluminous (large in volume or bulk)
Sense 6
Meaning:
A relative amount
Example:
mix one volume of the solution with ten volumes of water
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("volume" is a kind of...):
amount; measure; quantity (how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb volume
Context examples:
The quantity of micrograms in a volume of fifteen milliliters of a substance.
(Microgram per Fifteen Milliliters, NCI Thesaurus)
A unit of volume fraction expressed as a number of microliters of the constituent per the volume of the system represented in milliliters.
(Microliter per Milliliter, NCI Thesaurus)
In the library I found, to my great delight, a vast number of English books, whole shelves full of them, and bound volumes of magazines and newspapers.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The researchers calculated that the density of the halo gas must be less than 0.1 atoms per cubic centimeter (equivalent to several hundred atoms in a volume the size of a child’s balloon).
(Enigmatic radio burst illuminates a galaxy’s tranquil halo, ESO)
“This is astonishing,” said I, as I handed back the volume.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It appears that large volumes of gas flow from smaller galaxies to larger ones, like the Milky Way.
(Half Our Body's Atoms Could Have Come from Outside The Galaxy, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The children in this study received low-volume red cell transfusions.
(Fresh red blood cell transfusions do not help critically ill children more than older cells, National Institutes of Health)
But they were best (and universally) known for the collection of over two hundred folk tales they made from oral sources and published in two volumes of Nursery and Household Tales in 1812 and 1814.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Pertaining to a portion of the whole; any one of two or more samples of something, of the same volume or weight.
(Aliquot, NCI Thesaurus)
“I remember writing a review of a thin little volume—” I had begun carelessly, when she interrupted me.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
