value

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Good job!The value for LinkedIn to vacuum up my email is immense!

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Quick take

a numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed; "the value assigned was 16 milliseconds"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of value gathered in one view.

noun

a numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed; "the value assigned was 16 milliseconds"

noun

the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable; "the Shakespearean Shylock is of dubious value in the modern world"

noun

the amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else; "he tried to estimate the value of the produce at normal prices"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for value.

noun

a numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed; "the value assigned was 16 milliseconds"

noun

the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable; "the Shakespearean Shylock is of dubious value in the modern world"

noun

the amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else; "he tried to estimate the value of the produce at normal prices"

noun

relative darkness or lightness of a color; "I establish the colors and principal values by organizing the painting into three values--dark, medium...and light"-Joe Hing Lowe

noun

(music) the relative duration of a musical note

noun

an ideal accepted by some individual or group; "he has old-fashioned values"

verb

fix or determine the value of; assign a value to; "value the jewelry and art work in the estate"

verb

hold dear; "I prize these old photographs"

verb

regard highly; think much of; "I respect his judgement"; "We prize his creativity"

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evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of; "I will have the family jewels appraised by a professional"; "access all the factors when taking a risk"

See also: measure, evaluate, valuate, assess, appraise

verb

estimate the value of; "How would you rate his chances to become President?"; "Gold was rated highly among the Romans"

Example sentences

Good job!The value for LinkedIn to vacuum up my email is immense!

Doing that is simply robbing your long-term platform value for short-term successes.

I value HN at $1 billion by offering to buy only 1 share of 1 billion in common stock for $1 right now.

I question the value of any such assessment over what you learn in 1-4 hours of interviewing.

The math isn't very relevant because there's a really large unknown: the eventual value of the company.

", in which case the answer is available to Paypal's Hadoop cluster but plausibly "Yes, with a p value which would make a statistician weep.

" Its value exceeds that of money because it marks you as a person - as someone who is respected, who is trustworthy, and whom you would want to count as a friend.

Scolding and finger-wagging was bad enough coming from a first-grade teacher trying to promote sanctimonious values back in the 1950s.

There is obviously some skill in researching, predicting, working and acquiring land that will soon appreciate in value.

It would be more efficient to pay attention to fundamental value than momentary fluctuations if they weren't guaranteed to make large profits on the momentary fluctuations.

Facebook has value, but no matter what your privacy settings are set to, no matter what you delete, always assume that anything you write or do on Facebook - in any context - will be embarrassingly public.

In ways for which many are deeply thankful, it is using all the resources of modern technology to add huge value to otherwise dormant copyrighted works and to use the resulting product in ways that truly advances arts and science.

People can and ought to be able to unite to form great companies without having to compare notes on how they voted in the last election or some similar matter having nothing whatever to do with whether someone can add value to the venture.

I learned the value of research and of spending a lot of time on a single important problem: many startups take a scattershot approach, trying one weekend hackathon after another and finding nobody wants any of them, while oftentimes there are opportunities that nobody has solved because nobody wants to put in the work.