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noun
- The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
- The Shakespearean Shylock is of dubious value in the modern world.
- The degree of importance you give to something.
- 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.
- An ideal accepted by some individual or group
- He has old-fashioned values.
- (music) The relative duration of a musical note.
- 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
- Numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed; "the value assigned was 16 milliseconds."
verb (valu, ing)
- Estimate the value of; "How would you rate his chances to become President?"; "Gold was rated highly among the Romans."
- Place a value on; judge the worth of something; "I will have the family jewels appraised by a professional."
- Regard highly; think much of.
- Fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work.
- Hold dear; "I prize these old photographs."
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noun - The simultaneous firing of a number of missiles; the missiles so fired
- (sport) The flight of a ball just before it bounces
- (sport) A shot, especially in tennis, in which the ball is played before it hits the ground
verb
- (transitive) To fire a volley of shots
- (context, sport, transitive) To hit the ball before it touches the ground
- (intransitive) To be fired in a volley
- (context, sport, intransitive) To make a volley
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