different between volume vs substance

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

Alternative forms

• substaunce (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English substance, from Old French substance, from Latin substantia (“substance, essence”), from subst?ns, present active participle of subst? (“exist”, literally “stand under”), from sub + st? (“stand”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?bst?ns/, [?s?bst?nts]

Noun

substance (countable and uncountable, plural substances)

1. Physical matter; material.
   • 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations

     Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.

   Synonyms: matter, stuff

2. The essential part of anything; the most vital part.

   • Heroic virtue did his actions guide, / And he the substance, not the appearance, chose.

   • 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth

     This edition is the same in substance with the Latin.

   • 1796, Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace

     It is insolent in words, in manner; but in substance it is not only insulting, but alarming.

   Synonyms: crux, gist

3. Substantiality; solidity; firmness.

4. Material possessions; estate; property; resources.

   • And there wasted his substance with riotous living.
5. A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.
6. Drugs (illegal narcotics)

   Synonyms: dope, gear

7. (theology) Hypostasis.

Synonyms

• (physical matter): See also Thesaurus:substance
• (essential part of anything): See also Thesaurus:gist
• (drugs): See also Thesaurus:recreational drug

Related terms

Translations

Verb

substance (third-person singular simple present substances, present participle substancing, simple past and past participle substanced)

1. (rare, transitive) To give substance to; to make real or substantial.

See also

• style

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin substantia (“substance, essence”), from subst?ns, present active participle of subst? (“exist”, literally “stand under”), from sub + st? (“stand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syp.st??s/
• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

substance f (plural substances)

1. substance

Derived terms

Further reading

• “substance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• cubassent

Middle English

Etymology

From Old French substance.

Noun

substance

1. essence

Descendants

• English: substance

Old French

Alternative forms

• sostance, sustance

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin substantia.

Noun

substance f (oblique plural substances, nominative singular substance, nominative plural substances)

1. most essential; substantial part
2. existence

Related terms

• substantiel

Descendants