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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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proportion
English
Etymology
From Middle English proporcion, from Old French proportion, from Latin pr?porti? (“comparative relation, proportion, symmetry, analogy”), from pro (“for, before”) + portio (“share, part”); see portion.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /p???p????n/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p???p????n/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /p???po(?)???n/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /p???po???n/
- Rhymes: -??(?)??n
- Hyphenation: pro?por?tion
Noun
proportion (countable and uncountable, plural proportions)
- (countable) A quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number.
- “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men, the enervated matrons of the summer capital, […]!”
- (uncountable) Harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole.
- (countable) Proper or equal share.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- Let the women […] do the same things in their proportions and capacities.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- The relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude, quantity, or degree.
- 1563, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments
- The image of Christ made in Pilate's time after his own proportion.
- 1563, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments
- (mathematics, countable) A statement of equality between two ratios.
- (mathematics, archaic) The "rule of three", in which three terms are given to find a fourth.
- (countable, chiefly in the plural) Size.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
proportion (third-person singular simple present proportions, present participle proportioning, simple past and past participle proportioned)
- (transitive) To divide into proper shares; to apportion.
- (transitive) To form symmetrically.
- (transitive, art) To set or render in proportion.
- (transitive, archaic) To correspond to.
Translations
Further reading
- proportion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- proportion in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Etymology
From Latin pr?porti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p??.p??.sj??/
Noun
proportion f (plural proportions)
- proportion
Derived terms
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