different between span vs volume

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English spanne, from Old English spann, from Proto-Germanic *spann? (“span, handbreadth”). Cognate with Dutch span, spanne, German Spanne. The sense “pair of horses” is probably from Old English ?espan, ?espann (“a joining; a fastening together; clasp; yoke”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?]. Cognate with Dutch gespan, German Gespann.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American)
  • IPA^(key): /spæn/
• • Rhymes: -æn
• (Australian English)
  • IPA^(key): /spæ?n/
  • Rhymes: -æ?n

Noun

span (plural spans)

1. The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; an eighth of a fathom.
2. (by extension) A small space or a brief portion of time.
   • 1699, George Farquhar, The Constant Couple

     Life's but a span; I'll every inch enjoy.

   • 2007. Zerzan, John. Silence.

     The unsilent present is a time of evaporating attention spans,

3. A portion of something by length; a subsequence.
   • 2004, Robert Harris, Robert Warner, The Definitive Guide to SWT and JFace (page 759)

     For example, in OpenOffice.org or Microsoft Word, each span of text can have a style that defines key characteristics about the text: • What font it uses • Whether it's normal, bolded, italicized, […]

4. (architecture, construction) The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.
5. (architecture, construction) The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
6. (nautical) A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
7. (US, Canada) A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
8. (mathematics) The space of all linear combinations of something.
9. (computing) The time required to execute a parallel algorithm on an infinite number of processors, i.e. the shortest distance across a directed acyclic graph representing the computation steps.

Derived terms

• attention span
• eyespan
• memory span
• spanless

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English spannen, from Old English spannan, from Proto-Germanic *spannan? (“to stretch, span”). Cognate with German spannen, Dutch spannen.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) and GenAm
  • IPA^(key): /spæn/
  • Rhymes: -æn
• AusE
  • IPA^(key): /spæ?n/
  • Rhymes: -æ?n

Verb

span (third-person singular simple present spans, present participle spanning, simple past and past participle spanned)

1. (transitive) To extend through the distance between or across.

   The suspension bridge spanned the canyon.

   • 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II

     The rivers were spanned by arches of solid masonry.

2. (transitive) To extend through (a time period).

   The parking lot spans three acres.

   The novel spans three centuries.

3. (transitive) To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object.

   to span a space or distance; to span a cylinder
4. (mathematics) To generate an entire space by means of linear combinations.
5. (intransitive, US, dated) To be matched, as horses.
6. (transitive) To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English span, from Old English spann, from Proto-Germanic *spann, first and third person singular preterit indicative of Proto-Germanic *spinnan? (“to spin”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian, General American) IPA^(key): /spæn/
  • Rhymes: -æn

Verb

span

1. (archaic, now nonstandard) simple past tense of spin

Anagrams

• ANPs, NPAS, NSPA, PANs, PNAS, PNAs, Pans, SNAP, naps, pans, snap

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp?n/
• Hyphenation: span
• Rhymes: -?n

Etymology 1

From older gespan.

Noun

span n (plural spannen, diminutive spannetje n)

1. A span, a team (pair or larger team of draught animals). [from 17th c.]
2. A cart or instrument with a team of draught animals. [from 18th c.]
3. A romantic pair, couple. [from 19th c.]

Derived terms

• driespan
• tweespan
• vierspan
• zesspan

Descendants

• Afrikaans: span

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

span

1. first-person singular present indicative of spannen
2. imperative of spannen

Anagrams

• snap

Middle English

Noun

span

1. Alternative form of spanne

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch gespannen.

Noun

span

1. tense

West Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

span n (plural spannen, diminutive spantsje)

1. span, team (pair of draught animals in a team)
2. pair, couple

Further reading

• “span (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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)

1. 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.
2. Strength of sound; loudness.

3. The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.

4. A bound book.
5. A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.

6. (in the plural, by extension) A great amount (of meaning) about something.
7. (obsolete) A roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books.
8. Quantity.

9. A rounded mass or convolution.
10. (economics) The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
11. (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)

1. (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.

2. (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?”

3. (intransitive) To swell.

Asturian

Noun

volume m (plural volumes)

1. volume

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

volume n (plural volumen or volumes, diminutive volumetje n)

1. volume

French

Etymology

From Latin vol?men.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?.lym/

Noun

volume m (plural volumes)

1. volume (of a book, a written work)
2. volume (sound)
3. volume (amount of space something takes up)
4. volume (amount; quantity)
5. (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)

1. volume (quantity of space)
2. volume (single book of a published work)

Italian

Etymology

From Latin vol?men.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vo?lu.me/

Noun

volume m (plural volumi)

1. 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

1. 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)

1. (geometry) volume (unit of three-dimensional measure)
2. volume; loudness (strength of sound)
3. (publishing) volume (issues of a periodical over a period of one year)
4. (publishing) volume (individual book of a publication issued as a set of books)
5. (chiefly historical) volume (bound book)
6. volume; quantity

Synonyms

• (single book of a set of books): tomo
• (quantity): quantidade, quantia

Related terms

• volumoso