different between volume vs bigness

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

English

Etymology

From big +? -ness.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?b??n?s/

Noun

bigness (countable and uncountable, plural bignesses)

1. (now rare) Size. [from 15th c.]
   • 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, Act II, Scene 1, [1]

     Mine old lord, whiles he liv'd, was so precise,

     That he would take exceptions at my buttons,

     And, being like pins' heads, blame me for the bigness;

     Which made me curate-like in mine attire,

   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II, lines 1051-3, [2]

     And, fast by, hanging in a golden chain,

     This pendent World, in bigness as a star

     Of smallest magnitude close by the moon.

   • 1704, Isaac Newton, Opticks, London: William Innys, 1730, Book 3, Part I, p. 346, [3]

     Do not several sorts of Rays make Vibrations of several bignesses, which according to their bignesses excite Sensations of several Colours, much after the manner that the Vibrations of the Air, according to their several bignesses excite Sensations of several Sounds?

   • 1726, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Part I, Chapter VI, [4]

     […] the tallest horses and oxen are between four and five inches in height, the sheep an inch and half, more or less: their geese about the bigness of a sparrow, and so the several gradations downwards till you come to the smallest, which to my sight, were almost invisible […]
2. The characteristic of being big. [from 15th c.]
   • 1944, Emily Carr, The House of Small, "Art and the House," [6]

     They liked what they liked—would tolerate no innovations. My change in thought and expression had angered them into fierce denouncement. To expose a thing deeper than its skin surface was to them an indecency. They ridiculed my striving for bigness, depth.

Anagrams

• besings, sigbens