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breadth
English
Etymology
From Middle English breedthe, bredethe, alteration (due to nouns ending in -th: length, strength, wrength, etc.) of Middle English brede ("breadth"; see bread). Equivalent to broad +? -th. Cognate with Scots bredth (“breadth”), Saterland Frisian Bratte (“breadth”), West Frisian breedte (“breadth”), Dutch breedte (“breadth”), German Low German Breddte, Breddt (“breadth”), German Breite (“breadth”), Danish bredde (“breadth”), Swedish bredd (“breadth”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b??d?/, /b??t?/, /b???/
- Rhymes: -?d?
Noun
breadth (countable and uncountable, plural breadths)
- The extent or measure of how broad or wide something is.
- A piece of fabric of standard width.
- Scope or range, especially of knowledge or skill.
- (art) A style in painting in which details are strictly subordinated to the harmony of the whole composition.
- (graph theory) The length of the longest path between two vertices in a graph.
Synonyms
- (extent or measure of how broad something is): width
- (piece of fabric of standard width):
- (scope or range): extent, range, scope, size
Derived terms
Translations
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volume
English
Alternative forms
- vol. (abbreviation)
Etymology
From Old French volume, from Latin vol?men (“book, roll”), from volv? (“roll, turn about”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?v?l.ju?m/, /?v?l.j?m/
- (US) IPA(key): /?v?l.jum/, /?v?l.j?m/
Noun
volume (countable and uncountable, plural volumes)
- A three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height. It is measured in units of cubic centimeters in metric, cubic inches or cubic feet in English measurement.
- Strength of sound; loudness.
- The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.
- A bound book.
- A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.
- (in the plural, by extension) A great amount (of meaning) about something.
- (obsolete) A roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books.
- Quantity.
- A rounded mass or convolution.
- (economics) The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
- (computing) An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.
Derived terms
- voluminous
Translations
See also
- book
- tome
- cubic distance
- Customary: ounces, pints, quarts, gallons, cubic inches (in3), cubic feet, cubic yards, cubic miles
- Metric: mililiters, liters, cubic meters (m3), cubic centimeters ("cc") (cm3)
- sound
- Universal: bels, decibels
- Metric: millipascals (mPa)
Verb
volume (third-person singular simple present volumes, present participle voluming, simple past and past participle volumed)
- (intransitive) To be conveyed through the air, waft.
- 1867, George Meredith, Vittoria, London: Chapman & Hall, Volume 2, Chapter 30, p. 258,[3]
- […] thumping guns and pattering musket-shots, the long big boom of surgent hosts, and the muffled voluming and crash of storm-bells, proclaimed that the insurrection was hot.
- 1884, William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham, Chapter 2,[4]
- […] the Colonel, before he sat down, went about shutting the registers, through which a welding heat came voluming up from the furnace.
- 1867, George Meredith, Vittoria, London: Chapman & Hall, Volume 2, Chapter 30, p. 258,[3]
- (transitive) To cause to move through the air, waft.
- 1872, George Macdonald, Wilfrid Cumbermede, London: Hurst & Blackett Volume I, Chapter 15, p. 243,[5]
- We lay leaning over the bows, now looking up at the mist blown in never-ending volumed sheets, now at the sail swelling in the wind before which it fled, and again down at the water through which our boat was ploughing its evanescent furrow.
- 1900, Walter William Skeat, Malay Magic, London: Macmillan, Chapter 6, p. 420,[6]
- The censer, voluming upwards its ash-gray smoke, was now passed from hand to hand three times round the patient, and finally deposited on the floor at his feet.
- 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 33, p. 219,[7]
- The record player on the first floor volumed up Lonnie Johnson singing, “Tomorrow night, will you remember what you said tonight?”
- 1872, George Macdonald, Wilfrid Cumbermede, London: Hurst & Blackett Volume I, Chapter 15, p. 243,[5]
- (intransitive) To swell.
Asturian
Noun
volume m (plural volumes)
- volume
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
volume n (plural volumen or volumes, diminutive volumetje n)
- volume
French
Etymology
From Latin vol?men.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /v?.lym/
Noun
volume m (plural volumes)
- volume (of a book, a written work)
- volume (sound)
- volume (amount of space something takes up)
- volume (amount; quantity)
- (figuratively) an overly long piece of writing
Derived terms
Related terms
- volumétrique
- volumineux
Further reading
- “volume” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician
Etymology
From Latin vol?men (“a book, roll”).
Noun
volume m (plural volumes)
- volume (quantity of space)
- volume (single book of a published work)
Italian
Etymology
From Latin vol?men.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vo?lu.me/
Noun
volume m (plural volumi)
- volume (clarification of this definition is needed)
Related terms
- volumenometro
- volumetria
- volumetrico
- voluminoso
Further reading
- volume in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vol?men (“a book, roll”).
Noun
volume m or f
- volume, specifically a collection of written works
Descendants
- ? English: volume
- French: volume
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese volume, borrowed from Latin vol?men.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /vo.?lu.mi/
- (Northeast Brazil) IPA(key): /v?.?lu.m?/, /v?.?lu.m/
Noun
volume m (plural volumes)
- (geometry) volume (unit of three-dimensional measure)
- volume; loudness (strength of sound)
- (publishing) volume (issues of a periodical over a period of one year)
- (publishing) volume (individual book of a publication issued as a set of books)
- (chiefly historical) volume (bound book)
- volume; quantity
Synonyms
- (single book of a set of books): tomo
- (quantity): quantidade, quantia
Related terms
- volumoso
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