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utility
English
Etymology
utile +? -ity, from Old French utilitet (“usefulness”), from Latin ?tilit?s, from uti (“to use”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ju??t?l.?.ti/
- Rhymes: -?l?ti
Noun
utility (countable and uncountable, plural utilities)
- The state or condition of being useful; usefulness.
- Something that is useful.
- (economics) The ability of a commodity to satisfy needs or wants; the satisfaction experienced by the consumer of that commodity.
- (philosophy) Well-being, satisfaction, pleasure, or happiness.
- (business, finance) A service provider, such as an electric company or water company; or, the securities of such a provider.
- (computing) A software program designed to perform a single task or a small range of tasks, often to help manage and tune computer hardware, an operating system or application software.
- I've bought a new disk utility that can recover deleted files.
- 1982, InfoWorld (volume 4, number 10, page 35)
- The system includes an 8080 and a Z80 assembler, a Tektronix format downloader and other utilities.
- (sports) The ability to play multiple positions.
Antonyms
- disutility
- inutility
Derived terms
- beautility
- multiutility
- utilitarian
Translations
Adjective
utility
- Having to do with, or owned by, a service provider.
- utility line; utility bill
- Designating of a room in a house or building where mechanical equipment is installed; such as a furnace, water tank/heater, circuit breaker, and/or air conditioning unit; and often equipped with hookups for laundry equipment (washer/dryer).
- utility room
Synonyms
- (state of being useful): usefulness, note
- See also Thesaurus:utility
Spanish
Noun
utility m (plural utilitys)
- (sports) utility
utility From the web:
- what utility services my address
- what utility district am i in
- what utility is heat
- what utility knife used for
- what utility does bitcoin have
- what utility means
- what utility is hot water
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value
English
Alternative forms
- valew (in the sense of “valour”)
Etymology
From Middle English valew, value, from Old French value , feminine past participle of valoir, from Latin val?re (“be strong, be worth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?welh?- (“to be strong”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: v?l'?, IPA(key): /?vælju?/
- Hyphenation: val?ue
- Rhymes: -ælju?
Noun
value (countable and uncountable, plural values)
- The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.
- Synonym: worth
- (uncountable) The degree of importance given to something.
- That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system.
- He does not share his parents' values.
- family values
- The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
- 1825, John Ramsay McCulloch, Principles of Political Economy
- An article may be possessed of the highest degree of utility, or power to minister to our wants and enjoyments, and may be universally made use of, without possessing exchangeable value.
- 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy
- His design was not to pay him the value of his pictures, because they were above any price.
- 1825, John Ramsay McCulloch, Principles of Political Economy
- (music) The relative duration of a musical note.
- (art) The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
- 2006, Edith Anderson Feisner, Colour: How to Use Colour in Art and Design
- When pigments of equal value are mixed together, the resulting color will be a darker value. This is the result of subtraction.
- 2010, Rose Edin and ?Dee Jepsen, Color Harmonies: Paint Watercolors Filled with Light
- Shadows and light move very quickly when you are painting on location. Use Cobalt Blue to quickly establish the painting's values.
- 2006, Edith Anderson Feisner, Colour: How to Use Colour in Art and Design
- (mathematics, physics) Any definite numerical quantity or other mathematical object, determined by being measured, computed, or otherwise defined.
- Precise meaning; import.
- 1784-1810, William Mitford, The History of Greece
- Yet that learned and diligent annotator has , in a following note , shown his sense of the value of a passage of Livy , marking , in a few words , most strongly the desolation of Italy under the Roman republic
- 1784-1810, William Mitford, The History of Greece
- (in the plural) The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treating a mass or compound; specifically, the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, etc.
- (obsolete) Esteem; regard.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
- My relation to the person was so near, and my value for him so great.
- (obsolete) Valour; also spelled valew.
- And him with equall valew countervayld
Synonyms
- valence
Hyponyms
- added value
- economic value
- face value
- intrinsic value
- lvalue
- market value
- note value
- par value
- rvalue
- time value
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
value (third-person singular simple present values, present participle valuing, simple past and past participle valued)
- To estimate the value of; judge the worth of something.
- To fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work.
- To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon.
- To hold dear.
Synonyms
- appreciate
- assess
- esteem
- prize
- rate
- respect
- treasure
- valuate
- worthen
Antonyms
- belittle
- derogate
- despise
- disesteem
- disrespect
Translations
See also
- value system
References
- value at OneLook Dictionary Search
- value in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- value in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- value in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- uveal
French
Verb
value
- feminine singular of the past participle of valoir
value From the web:
- what value is closest to the mass of the atom
- what values are important to you
- what values make the inequality true
- how to find the mass of the atom
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