volumen.
/ˈvɒljuːm/, U.S. /ˈvɑljəm/, /ˈvɑlˌjum/ I. A written or printed text, and related uses.
1. Historical.† b. A roll or scroll containing a legal document. Obsolete. rare.
a. A roll of parchment, papyrus, etc., containing written matter; a literary work, or part of one, recorded or preserved in this form, which was customary in ancient times. Also figurative.
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society > communication > book > kind of book > manuscript book > [noun] > in form of roll
volume1382
rotulet1833
volumen1851
makimono1880
emakimono1958
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Deut. xvii. 18 He shal discriue to hym a declaracioun of this lawe in a volym.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 27 He expownede Ypocras his bookes as it were, and..also he made meny veleyns [v.rr. volyms, volums] of his owne.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. vi. 73 Hee wrote sixe and thirtie thousand, fiue hundred, and fiue and twentie Volumes, that is to say, Rolles of Paper, as Iamblichus reporteth.
1611 Bible (King James) Psalms xl. 7 In the volume of the booke it is written of me. View more context for this quotation
1623 W. Lisle Esdras in Ælfric's Saxon Treat. Esdras the Scribe wrote a volume, how the people returned from Chaldea to Jury.
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 208 In history a great volume is unrolled for our instruction. View more context for this quotation
1837 ‘J. A. Arnett’ Inquiry Nature & Form Bks. Ancients ii. 23 Two strings.., attached to the last sheet or cover of the volume, round which, when it was rolled up, they were fastened.
1881 G. W. Moon King's English ii. 99 The rolls, or volumes, were composed of several sheets, fastened to each other, and rolled upon a stick; the whole making a kind of cylinder, which was to be managed by the stick, as a handle.
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society > law > legal document > [noun] > roll or scroll containing
volume1530
1530 Will of Thomas Broke, Ld. Cobham (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/23) f. 191 This my present testament and laste will in two volumes.
2.
a. A collection of written or printed sheets bound together so as to form a book; a tome.
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society > communication > book > [noun]
bookeOE
volumec1380
biblet1388
volumenc1540
tome?1570
bk.1645
vol.1682
α.
β. c1386 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Prol. 681 Ouides Art and bookes many on And alle thise were bounden in o volume [v.rr. volome, velome].c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 512/1 Volyme, booke, volumen.1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde iii. xii. 160 Boece..compiled in his lyf plente of fair volumes aourned of hye and noble philosophye.a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clvi. f. lxxxvv Of his notable dedis myght I make a great volume.1555 R. Eden Of Pole Antartike in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 245 It wolde requyre rather a hole volume then a booke.1594 R. Southwell St. Peter's Complaint (1602) 15 Sweet volumes stoard with learning fit for Saints.1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. H4v You erre not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God: laying before vs two Bookes or volumes to studie, if we will be secured from errour. View more context for this quotation1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 74 Loe, here a little volume, but large book.1691 J. Hartcliffe Treat. Virtues 225 The Lawyers..in those infinite and immense Volumes, which they have written.1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 199 It would take up a larger Volume than this whole Work is intended to be, to set down all the Contrivances I hatch'd.1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. xx. 143 The writer of the volume in question meets me upon my own ground.1808 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 19 109 The great number of pages, I might perhaps say, volumes, which have been written on the subject.1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 394 The shops of the great book~sellers..were crowded..and a known customer was often permitted to carry a volume home.1893 Bookman June 85/2 Some writers would have gathered their fugitive pieces into volumes and called them books.γ. 1648 Pagitt's Heresiogr. (ed. 4) Ep. Ded. sig. πA4 A Uolumn wil hardly containe the hurt that these Sectaries have..done to this poore Church.1649 Bp. J. Hall Humble Motion to Parl. 10 The best man upon earth..did so many things as all the Volumnes in the world could scarce containe.1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 211 He cannot answer without reading over eight or ten large Volumns in Folio.1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 288 In every Volumn there is a Nursery..of Vice.c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 61 Men algatis don worse now, for in stede of philateries men maken gret volyms of newe lawes.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 15 Þat þey mowe be enformed by þis schort tretys, þat haueþ nouȝt i-seie þe grete volyms and large, þat beeþ of stories i-write.
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. iv. Prol. 25 I haf set me..to tret in þis wolum Qwhen biggit was be Romule Rome.
1445–50 J. Metham Wks. (1916) 157 I rede in elde volummys this matere subsequent.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid in Wks. (1874) IV. 228 Virgillis volum of hir sonne Enee.
1590 Lydgate's Serpent of Deuision (new ed.) sig. Civ Thus by the large writings and golden vollums of that woorthye Chaucer, the froward Dame of Chaunce hath no respecte of persons.
1651 Burton's Anat. Mel. (ed. 6) iii. iv. ii. i. 692 To describe them in particular..would require a just volum.
1652 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian Enlarged 180 It being sufficient for a Volum by itself to speak fully of them.
1698 J. Keill Exam. Theory Earth (1734) 19 Mr. Erasmus Warren, who has wrote the greatest Volum against it.
1700 L. Maidwell in C. R. L. Fletcher Collectanea (1885) I. 313 Never to be bound up in the last volum.
b. the sacred volume, the Bible. the Christian volume, the New Testament.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > New Testament > [noun]
gospel-bookc1000
Old and the New Testamenta1300
testament1568
the Christian volume1786
society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > [noun]
Holy Writc900
writeOE
God's bookOE
writOE
bookOE
Biblea1300
holy lettrurec1330
scripturec1330
the (sacred or holy) writings1340
gospel1393
worda1425
escripture1489
Holy Write1508
theologya1513
the written word1533
Book of God1548
oracle1548
hand biblea1680
good book1740
sacred book1782
the sacred volume1850
bibliotheca1879
Kitab1885
1786 R. Burns Cotter's Sat. Night xv, in Poems & Songs (1968) I. 150 Perhaps the Christian Volume is the theme.
1850 Forshall & Madden Wyclif's Bible I. Pref. p. iii Aelfric..added greatly to the knowledge of the sacred volume [among the Anglo-Saxons].
1863 Biogr. Sk. E. Fry 75 Fifty copies of the entire Sacred Volume, and twenty-five New Testaments, were promptly forwarded for her use.
3. figurative.
a. Something which in character or nature is comparable to a book; esp. something which may be studied after the manner of a book.
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society > education > learning > study > subject or object of study > [noun]
lorea1225
book1340
librarya1450
study1535
volume1597
subject1805
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. iv. 17 Would the word Farewel haue lengthned howers,..He should haue had a volume of farewels. View more context for this quotation
1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. iii. 83 This night you shall..Reade ore the volume of young Paris face, And find delight, writ there with bewties pen. View more context for this quotation
1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke Ded. p. iii This philosophy natural, both speculatiue and actiue, is not only to be found in the volume of nature.
1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 19 The publicke prosperities would be lesse deare unto me if yours were not bound up in one volume with them.
1663 G. Mackenzie Religio Stoici 96 It is as strange, that man, having that huge volumn of the Creation to revolve [etc.].
1700 M. Prior Carmen Sæculare 13 Be kind, and with a milder Hand Closing the Volumn of the finish'd Age,..A more delightful Leaf expand.
1814 Ld. Byron Lara i. ix. 131 Books, for his volume heretofore was Man, With eye more curious he appear'd to scan.
1870 F. W. Farrar Families of Speech i. 9 Thought which so completely permeates the whole of language as to render it one vast volume of compressed allegories.
b. In the phrase to speak (also express, tell) volumes, to be highly expressive or significant.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > clearness, lucidity > become clear [verb (intransitive)]
to bear in1637
to speak (also express, tell) volumes1803
to clear up1875
to come together1907
1803 M. Wilmot Let. 3 May in M. Wilmot & C. Wilmot Russ. Jrnls. (1934) i. 13 A sentimental story that speakes Volumes in favour of the Count and his Daughter.
1810 P. B. Shelley Zastrozzi iv. 46 A pause ensued, during which the eyes of Zastrozzi and Matilda spoke volumes to each guilty soul.
1833 J. G. Whittier Abolitionists in Prose Wks. (1889) III. 86 The late noble example of the eloquent statesman..speaks volumes to his political friends.
1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. vi. 489 A period of eighteen years in which we cannot see that a sword was drawn within the borders of England was..something which speaks volumes in favour of the King.
1891 ‘J. S. Winter’ Lumley xv. 106 Mrs. Jock's tone expressed volumes.
4. A separately bound portion or division of a work; one of two or more portions into which a work of some size is divided with a view to separate binding; one of a number of books forming a related set or series.
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society > communication > book > series or set > [noun] > part of
part1424
volume1523
fascicle1647
pt.1654
number1728
livraison1784
fasciculus1845
fascicule1880
heft1886
society > communication > book > matter of book > [noun] > main subdivision of large work
bookOE
tome1519
volume1523
code1607
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. 322/2 Thus endeth the first volume of sir Johan Froissart: of the cronycles of England, Fraunce, Spayne [etc.].
1549 M. Coverdale (title) The second tome or volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the newe testament.
1684 Scanderbeg Redivivus vi. 155 To Attempt his Character would require another Volumne.
1706 G. London & H. Wise (title) The Retir'd Gard'ner. In Two Volumes.
1706 G. London & H. Wise Retir'd Gard'ner II. (title page) To this Volume is added, a Description and Plan of Count Tallard's Garden.
1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 11 I have given, in the advertisement to my first Volume, the origin of this error.
1798 J. Ferriar Illustr. Sterne i. 4 When the first volumes of Tristram Shandy appeared.
1855 Poultry Chron. 3 555 The ‘Poultry Chronicle’..being now complete in three volumes.
II. Bulk, size, mass, and related uses.† 5. † b. of the largest volume, with reference to copies of the Bible. Obsolete.figurative.1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets v. 112 The Iambic did not carry weight enough or volume to sustain a lengthy narrative.1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda IV. viii. lxi. 222 The soul of man may know in fuller volume the good which has been.
a. Size, bulk, or dimensions (of a book).
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society > communication > book > kind of book > size of book > [noun]
volume1530
format1840
bulk1906
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 285/2 Volym for the largenesse of a boke, uolume.
1555 R. Braham in Lydgate's Auncient Hist. Warres betwixte Grecians & Troyans To Rdr. After he had wryt his booke to the iuste volume, filled then the mergentes and outwarde sydes with his madnes.
1577 Vicary's Profitable Treat. Anat. To Rdr. sig. ¶.viv And albeit this Treatise be small in Volume, yet in commoditie it is great and profitable.
1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. iv. 30 The fittest volume for their writing a [sic] booke is, to haue them in quarto.
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 254 The Alcoran or Bible..is in volume twice so big as the Psalmes of David.
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 232 There are four Volumns in use that are differently Imposed, viz. Folio, Quarto, Octavo and Twelves... The places of these Pages for all Volumns the Compositer has always in his memory.
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society > communication > book > kind of book > size of book > [adjective] > large
of the largest volume1538
large paper1714
omnibus-sized1931
1538 T. Cromwell in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) II. 152 That ye shall prouide..one boke of the hole bible of the largest volume in english.
1540 (title) The Byble in Englyshe of the largest and greatest volume.
1569 Bp. J. Parkhurst Injunct. A iv, 3. Item, whether you haue in your Churche a Bible, of the largest volume.
1605 Min. Archdeaconry Colchester (MS.) f. 183 They want the saulter, the byble of the largest volume.
a1629 W. Hinde Faithfull Remonstr. (1641) xl. 123 He set up..two goodly faire Bibles of the best Edition, and largest Volume (as then they were Printed).
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Bible Cranmer's Bible..was printed by Grafton, of the largest volume, and published in 1540.
6. attributive.1866 W. Odling Lect. Animal Chem. 152 The atomic weights or volume-weights of chlorine, bromine, and iodine.1881 J. C. Maxwell Treat. Electr. & Magnetism (ed. 2) I. 134 The volume-density at any point is determined by the equation.1885 H. W. Watson & S. H. Burbury Math. Theory Electr. & Magn. I. 53 We call the distribution superficial in distinction from the volume distribution hitherto considered.
a. A particular bulk, mass, or quantity as an attribute of a thing. Also figurative.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > [noun] > a quantity or amount > particular, as attribute of a thing
volume1621
1621 F. Quarles Hadassa in Divine Poems (1638) 101 So shall his people euen as well as He Princes (though in a lesser volume) be.
1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 49 It [sc. the great hall] is beautifyed with rare pictures in a great volume.
1816 P. B. Shelley Alastor 37 The stream, that with a larger volume now Rolled through the labyrinthine dell.
1862 H. Spencer First Princ. ii. iv. §66. 239 Certain gases, which, in assuming a larger volume, have caused the explosion.
1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea I. 376 The torrent had so great a volume that it was worthy to be turned against a foreign State.
b. concrete. A quantity or mass (esp. a large one) regarded as matter occupying space. Also figurative.
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the world > space > [noun] > space occupied by something > quantity or mass regarded as occupying space
volume1702
the world > relative properties > quantity > [noun] > a quantity or amount
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some deal1710
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jag1834
mense1841
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > [noun] > a) dimension(s) > property of having three dimensions > volume
bulkc1449
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capacity?a1560
crassitude?a1560
solidity1570
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volume1794
cubage1840
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. iv. 261 It was now evident enough..what Use They would make upon occasions, of those Volumes of Votes, They had often poured out upon all accidental Debates.
1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 331 The prodigious volumes of water which have from the beginning of the world been falling into [the ocean].
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. ii. 32 Volume upon volume of black, heavy, clouds suddenly rising.
1833 T. B. Macaulay Horace Walpole in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 234 Every noble sharper, whose vast volume of wig, and infinite length of riband, had figured at the dressing.
1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man 32 Both in England and Ireland..bogs have burst, and sent forth great volumes of black mud.
1871 B. Stewart Heat (ed. 2) §24 The volume of mercury in the stem of a thermometer.
c. Chemistry. A determinate quantity or amount, in terms of bulk, of any substance.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > [noun] > a definite or specified quantity or amount
quantitya1325
measurec1384
certainc1386
certainty1431
assignment1519
dosis1543
dose1607
matter1610
quantum1747
volume1812
1812 H. Davy Elements Chem. Philos. 65 Solids differ in degrees of hardness, in color, in density, or in the weight afforded by equal volumes.
1820 M. Faraday Exper. Res. (1859) 51 A mixture of equal volumes of oxygen and hydrogen was made, and two volumes of it detonated..by the electric spark.
1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. III. 316 1 equivalent yields 4 volumes of vapour.
1877 T. H. Huxley Physiography 79 Instead of a given volume or measure, a given weight of air is examined.
7. figurative.1874 J. Parker Paraclete i. v. 63 Inspiration increases as well as sanctifies the volume of a man's being.
a. The bulk, size, or dimensions of a thing. Also concrete, the mass or solid body of something.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > [noun] > the solid body of something
area1625
volume1792
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > [noun] > a) dimension(s) > property of having three dimensions > volume > of a thing
volume1792
1792 Sequel Adventures Munchausen xi. 189 Wauwau..made several violent darts against the volume of the balloon; so fierce, as at length to tear open a great space.
1809 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 21 462 It is sufficient the volume of the muscular elements be augmented sufficiently to enlarge the fibres while the volume of the interstices, and of the superficial parts diminishes.
1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 249 Considerable labour has been bestowed in computing the volume of lava-streams.
1868 J. N. Lockyer Elem. Lessons Astron. §103 The volume of the Sun is 1,200,000 times greater than that of the Earth.
1877 T. H. Huxley Physiography 185 The volume of the sea is very much greater than that of the land which rises above the sea-level.
b. The amount or quantity of something.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > [noun]
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substance1435
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valour1631
amount1668
amt.1744
volume1882
1882 D. A. Wells Our Merchant Marine 112 So small a matter apparently as the civility or neglect of conductors..will sensibly influence the volume of travel.
1886 Manch. Examiner 13 Mar. 5/2 It would be a good thing to enlarge the volume of the currency; to make money more plentiful.
1892 Daily News 24 Dec. 7/2 The volume of business, as is usual at this season of the year, has undergone considerable diminution.
8. Without article: bulk, mass, dimensions.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > largeness of volume or bulkiness
hugenessc1380
grossnessa1513
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bulk1626
voluminousness1664
bulkiness1674
volume1794
quantum1815
1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 71 It is not true, that the seas diminish in volume, or sink gradually beneath their level.
1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. I. 110 A mixture of three parts in volume of hydrogen gas, and one part of sulphurous acid gas.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. ix. 117 The waves, which every moment increased in volume, washed up to us.
1868 W. Peard Pract. Water-farming xiv. 139 The brook is clear, of average purity, and moderate volume.
1871 A. Meadows Man. Midwifery (ed. 2) 96 There is usually some increase of volume and vascularity of the uterus itself.
9.
a. Music. (See first quots.)
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > singing voice > [noun] > power of voice
volume1786
1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Volume, a word applied to the compass of a voice from grave to acute: also to its tone, or power: as when we say, ‘such a performer possesses an extensive or rich volume of voice’.
1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 451/2 Volume, a term applied to the power and quality of the tone of a voice or instrument.
1881 Athenæum 10 Sept. 348/1 The voice of Herr Reichmann is a bass of great volume and richness.
1901 Scotsman 6 Mar. 8/6 The solo voices were not quite of professional volume.
b. Quantity, strength or power, combined mass, of sound.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > thing heard > [noun] > sound > quality of sound > volume
volume1822
1822 Ld. Byron Werner v. i. 134 I heard.., Distinct and keener far upon my ear Than the late cannon's volume, this word—‘Werner!’
1868 H. H. Milman Ann. St. Paul's Cathedral xvii. 428 The new organ pealed out its glorious volume of sound.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 249 The row when we reached the town redoubled in volume.
III. Something wound or winding.
10. poetic.
a. A coil, fold, wreath, convolution, esp. of a serpent. (Frequently in Dryden and Pope.)
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the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [noun]
rundlec1300
waif1513
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infold1578
obvolution1578
gyre1590
whorl1592
enfoldment1593
twine1600
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volume1646
volution1752
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convolute1846
whirl1862
enfolding1873
snaking1888
1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 46 Hee..will trim And brush her Azure Mantle, which shall swim In silken Volumes.
1667 J. Dryden Annus Mirabilis 1666 cxxiii. 32 So glides some trodden Serpent on the grass, And long behind his wounded vollume trails.
1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur ii. 40 The Crested Snake rolls on the flowry Plain, The shining Volumes of his Spiral Train.
1712 A. Pope tr. Statius First Bk. Thebais in Misc. Poems 48 Th' Inachians view'd the Slain with vast Surprize, Her twisting Volumes, and her rowling Eyes.
1769 W. Falconer Shipwreck (ed. 3) iii. 102 The wounded serpent, agonis'd with pain, Thus trails his mangled volume on the plain.
1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 499 The overcharg'd And drench'd conservatory breathes abroad, In volumes wheeling slow, the vapour dank.
1805–6 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Inferno ix. 42 Around them greenest hydras twisting roll'd Their volumes.
1821 P. B. Shelley Epipsychidion 27 In the place of it The ivy and the wild-vine interknit The volumes of their many twining stems.
b. A winding of a stream.
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the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [noun] > bend > meanders > one of
meander1599
volume1717
1717 E. Fenton Poems 220 Where Thames's fruitful Tides, Slow thro' the Vale in silver Volumes play.
Compounds
C1. attributive and in other combinations, as volume form, volume-swollen, volume-trophied adj.
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a1661 B. Holyday in tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 1 Mighty Telephus..Or volume-swolne Orestes, that does fill The margin of an ample book.
1831 W. Howitt Bk. Seasons 404 The lamp lights the volume-trophied wall.
1880 Gentleman's Mag. 246 80 A volume Hansard is still published at the end of the session.
1897 Daily News 13 May 6/2 Mr. Nimmo..will publish the whole series immediately in volume form.
C2. Special combinations.
volume control n. (a) control of the volume of sound, esp. when reproduced or transmitted; (b) a knob or other device for achieving this.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > [noun] > volume or tone control
volume control1927
tone control1930
society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun] > volume control
volume control1927
1927 Star 4 June 6/4 Volume Control... Noises, etc. in the loud speaker can be very easily reduced.
1931 T. H. Pear Voice & Personality 78 It [sc. a preacher's voice] should be articulate, but with an efficient and graded volume-control.
1933 Boys' Mag. July 108/2 One of the all-important components..is the volume control.
1956 B.B.C. Handbk. 1957 100 They are also responsible for the volume control and technical quality of programmes leaving studios.
1977 ‘E. Crispin’ Glimpses of Moon viii. 152 Titty..was wearing the hearing-aid, so Ling..addressed himself..to her, while she fiddled with volume control.
volume-density n. the number of anything per unit volume.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > [noun] > the solid body of something > density per unit volume
volume-density1956
1956 Nature 4 Feb. 226/1 These photographs have been useful for determining..the area-density and volume-density of the flying locusts.
1968 R. A. Lyttleton Myst. Solar Syst. v. 155 The time that an individual particle would take to cross the cylinder..would be of the order of 2s/V, and for this time the particle would be contributing to the average volume-density within the cylinder.
volume indicator n. Electronics a device for measuring the power of a complex electrical signal corresponding to a sound pattern, so as to indicate the volume of the sound that is represented.
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the world > matter > physics > science of sound > [noun] > instrument for measuring volume
volume indicator1923
VU meter1940
1923 Trans. Amer. Inst. Electr. Engineers 42 77/2 There has been developed a device which is called a ‘volume indicator’. This consists of an amplifier detector working into a direct-current meter.
1961 G. Millerson Technique Television Production i. 16 His [sc. the sound mixer's] attention is divided mostly between the flickering needle of his volume indicator and his picture monitor.
volume table n. Forestry a set of empirically derived figures relating the volume of timber in a given type of tree or log to measurable parameters such as height and girth, thus enabling such measurements to be used in estimating timber volumes in the field.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > tree-crop > volume table
yield table1888
volume table1895
1895 W. Schlich Man. Forestry III. 39 (heading) Estimate of volume by means of volume tables.
1902 Forestry Q. 1 6 The Bavarian government, in 1846, instituted a very extended study..of the stems of the more important forest trees of that country. The volume tables which resulted..involved a complete analytical measurement of over forty thousand trees.
1981 Southern Jrnl. Appl. Forestry 5 186/2 Users of volume tables are cautious about applying them outside the region from which they were derived, because the effects of geographic location are unknown.
volume unit n. = VU n. at V n. Initialisms 2.
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the world > matter > physics > science of sound > [noun] > instrument for measuring volume > unit of calibration
volume unit1940
VU1940
1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 897/1 VU, the number of volume-units above or below zero power-level..indicated by the standardised volume-indicator.
1960 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. XIV. 374/2 Meters which give readings in volume units, called VU meters, are widely used for monitoring radio broadcasts and for sound recording.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
volumev.
/ˈvɒljuːm/, U.S. /ˈvɑljəm/, /ˈvɑlˌjum/ 1.
a. transitive. To send up, pour out, in volumes.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > emit > copiously
yeteOE
effuse1398
hella1400
pourc1451
pump1580
shower1611
beteem?1630
repump1753
pail1807
volume1815
1815 W. Scott Field of Waterloo 18 Through the war-smoke volumed high, Still peals that unremitted cry.
1857 G. Meredith Farina 190 More and more the nightingales volumed their notes.
b. intransitive. To rise or roll in a volume or cloud.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > rise or go up [verb (intransitive)] > of flame or vapour > like smoke or flame
sufflame?1527
upspire1558
aspire1591
smokea1616
volume1824
1824 Ld. Byron Deformed Transformed i. i The mighty steam, which volumes high From their proud nostrils, burns the very air.
1885 W. D. Howells Rise Silas Lapham ii. 49 Shutting the registers, through which a welding heat came voluming up from the furnace.
1891 G. Meredith Fragm. Iliad in Illustr. London News 18 Apr. 507/1 Up from under them volumed the dust cloud, Up off the plain.
2. transitive. To collect or bind in a volume.
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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bind [verb (transitive)] > arrange sheets
quire1683
interleaf1712
volumize1830
volume1853
1853 G. J. Cayley Las Alforjas II. 119 It must have a bouquet of chemically prepared sentiment, and then it is fit to be volumed from the rough cask of MS., and decanted into the reviews.
1895 Punch 5 Jan. 1/1 For it's always been my practice, Sir,..Since the day that I was volumed, until now I'm fifty four.
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