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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
volume
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a book/volume/collection of poems
▪ She has a new collection of poems coming out soon.
a book/volume/collection of poetry
▪ He had two books of poetry published.
cranked up...volume
▪ We cranked up the volume.
slim volume
▪ a slim volume of poetry
the volume of sales (=the amount of goods a company sells)
▪ Because of its high volume of sales, the company can keep prices low.
the volume of traffic
▪ The new ring road will reduce the volume of traffic through the village.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
average
▪ Volume was 7. 9 million shares, more than three times the average daily volume during the past three months.
▪ The stock toppled 6 to 21 as 76, 000 shares changed hands, more than twice its daily average volume.
▪ Some 14. 7 million shares traded, almost five times its six-month daily average volume.
▪ Volume on the Big Board slumped to 130. 4 million shares, about one-third the average trading volume in recent weeks.
▪ That compares with three-month average daily trading volume of 570, 000 shares.
▪ Nearly 27 million shares traded Friday, higher than the three-month average daily volume of 12. 2 million shares.
daily
▪ These theories predict a positive relationship between daily volume and volatility, as illustrated in Fig. 8.4.
▪ Average daily share volume set a record at 346 million shares a day, according to preliminary data from the exchange.
▪ The stock toppled 6 to 21 as 76, 000 shares changed hands, more than twice its daily average volume.
▪ Volume was 7. 9 million shares, more than three times the average daily volume during the past three months.
▪ Such a high daily volume of transactions is currently not feasible because of the overhead involved.
▪ Some 14. 7 million shares traded, almost five times its six-month daily average volume.
▪ Average daily volume the past three months was 7. 4 million shares.
▪ The Brady bond market has grown to a volume 50 times greater than the daily volume in shares, traders said.
free
▪ This allowed them to include in their theory dissimilarities in free volume between polymer and solvent, together with the corresponding interactions.
▪ Thermal expansion of a liquid without change of phase can then be regarded as an increase in free volume.
▪ The larger the free volume, the more condensation will form.
great
▪ Despite the great volume of material that existed on the Mughals, I had always found them difficult to visualize.
▪ The higher import quota also means greater volume and higher profit margins for other refiners like Alexander&038;.
▪ Once you have picked up a signal you concentrate in that area until the signal is received at the greatest possible volume.
▪ Take care when doing water changes as they do not like great volumes of freshwater.
▪ This means that when heat is applied it will produce greater volumes of condensation.
▪ The computer can produce great volumes of rubbish at incredible speed.
high
▪ Whilst these claims may only be small in amount, they are high in volume.
▪ The extended contract and higher volume of service commitment provides Verio with an improved price beginning in January 1999.
▪ The left-hand graph shows that at low pressure the volume of a fixed amount of gas is high.
▪ Stock prices very often go up on high volume immediately after earnings are reported.
▪ The sheer efficiency of the drivers, especially at high volumes, can be disconcerting, and the sound is exceptionally bright.
▪ Last Thursday and Friday, options that could be exercised in January and February were being bought in unusually high volume.
▪ To the rear of the glazed, folding partition lay the larger, higher volume of the original school-room.
▪ The low cost strategy it employs is possible only with high volume production plants and low unit research and development costs.
large
▪ More favoured here was the use of promissory notes and bills of exchange in large volume and down to low denominations.
▪ Producing form letters in larger volumes is discussed in Chapters 19 and 20.
▪ For that period the buyers were therefore without its larger capacity and therefore unable to cater for a larger volume of business.
▪ The HMOs offer a physician group an exclusive contract to take care of a large volume of patients.
▪ Originally a single large volume, the Book of Kells was repaired and re-bound in 1953 in four volumes.
▪ It is the key format for handling large volumes of information.
low
▪ However, there are countervailing forces which might result in a lower volume of services.
▪ Its appeal is its ease of spreading and lower calorie content volume for volume.
▪ A number of brewers now use a device called a cask breather on low volume beers to prolong their life.
▪ He said he expects continued weaker prices and lower volume as companies curtail production.
▪ Until recently, that was the only cost-effective option available to low-volume car builders.
▪ How did mall stores battle back, saddled with higher rents, less floor space and lower volume than their competitors?
▪ It's the same sort of sound but much lower in volume and pitch - it almost sounds like a stomach rumbling.
▪ The bigger premises increased Lotus' overheads, which made low volume production cars unprofitable to manufacture.
sheer
▪ The sheer volume of insignia required for public services means that insignia can be given only the appearance of precious metals.
▪ The sheer volume of it suffocated every good intention.
▪ In any event the sheer volume and variety of bodies under departmental sponsorship often makes ministerial responsibility something of a myth.
▪ Most bankers say that the sheer volume of checks means that most banks only spot-check signatures.
▪ But the sheer range and volume of business with which the secretaries of state dealt made them important officers of government.
▪ It is not only sheer volume but the nature of the noise that arouses sleepers.
▪ Aim to increase the proportion of carbohydrates in your diet rather than the sheer volume.
▪ In contemplating the lair of Ed and Klara Durbeck, the temptation is to gape at the sheer volume of the contents.
slim
▪ I made a careful note of this exchange in the slim volume in which I stashed anything that sounded like wisdom.
▪ Each is a slim volume but so packed with useful information and recipes that the price of £4.99 seems modest.
▪ She brought to light a slim black volume and tossed it to Rex.
▪ This slim volume is essential reading for all involved with Letters of Credit.
▪ This is a suitably slimmer volume on one of his wives, Rita Hayworth.
small
▪ The process produces a much smaller volume of chemically inert radioactive waste than conventional ion exchange techniques.
▪ Never think that I dismiss lightly the hard work and devotion that go into each small volume.
▪ But this was not just the effect of slower markets and smaller volumes on commission and fee income.
▪ So small volumes of lung tissue are exposed to high doses of alpha radiation.
▪ Ignatius of Loyola, the small volume that was the fountainhead of Jesuit spirituality.
▪ This is a small, chatty volume of the kind that White has turned out in recent years with great success.
▪ How could such a small volume produce such a colossal amount of energy?
total
▪ It was just 6% of total world factoring volumes in 1991, according to Factors Chain International.
▪ Nasdaq market decliners beat advancers 1, 496 to 1, 442 on total trading volume of 142. 7 million shares.
▪ The total volume is said to contain more than 6,500 pages.
▪ Wieczorek estimates the total volume of rock as 80, 000 cubic yards.
▪ The total volume of resources applied by the health services is essentially an arbitrary figure.
▪ The total volume of the brown shales is 12, 600 cubic miles as determined from a study of well cuttings.
▪ The exchange said Brady bond trading accounted for 77 percent of its total trading volume in 1995.
▪ And Department of Education figures show that total loan volume increased 50 percent between 1992 and 1996.
■ NOUN
cell
▪ Associations have been shown between low packed cell volume or red cell volume, or both, and the respiratory distress syndrome.
▪ We have shown that red cell volume predicts outcome in preterm infants.
▪ Unit cell volumes of two other crystal forms of CypA-CsA complexes are consistent with ten molecules per asymmetric unit.
▪ The above cell volume regulatory mechanisms have usually been demonstrated by suddenly exposing cells to large changes in medium osmolality.
▪ Therefore, cell volume regulatory mechanisms might also play a major role in balancing ion fluxes across the two membranes.
▪ For those not requiring red cell transfusion there was no difference in packed cell volume between the groups at 1 month.
companion
▪ The Society now wishes to produce another companion volume in the form of illustrations of labelled and name-stamped London furniture.
▪ Perhaps a companion volume on dynamic headspace is in the offing?
▪ Along with its companion volume this book can be recommended to newcomers, and to more experienced workers.
▪ A companion volume to the Handy album, and very nearly as good.
control
▪ They laugh Quechua at me while one removes the volume control and drops it some distance away.
▪ In an auditorium everyone has their personal volume control.
▪ Insert the jack plug into the stereo unit earphone socket and turn the volume control to a low level.
▪ A volume control is also attached to the headphone cable.
▪ There's some kind of dried food stuck on the volume control.
▪ If the rating is not marked on the switch or volume control it isn't worth the risk.
▪ You mention that the noise increases as you reduce the volume control on the guitar.
▪ Next in line is a separate volume control for the clean sound, giving a sort of pseudo-twin channel operation.
traffic
▪ This was planned to reduce traffic volume by 40 percent.
▪ As traffic volumes increase, the demand for office and commercial developments, instead of residential uses, grows.
▪ It shows steady increases in accidents with injuries, as traffic volumes mounted.
■ VERB
increase
▪ If it does not vary at all, increase the volume a little.
▪ The easiest, and worst, response to external noise by the typical headphone user is increasing the volume.
▪ As the organization has expanded, the demand for manpower related information has increased in terms of volume, range and depth.
▪ Stirring effects the introduction of air and increases the volume of the mix 100 percent or more.
▪ Reprocessing spent nuclear fuel rods increases the volume of waste and should be undertaken only when necessary for safety reasons.
▪ During the spring the Sol becomes a torrent as melt waters vastly increase the volume of water.
▪ And increasing its volume only reduces its effectiveness by altering the way it processes sound pulses.
▪ Legislation has increased in volume and complexity over the years.
produce
▪ It produces condensed volumes of modules which can be reproduced on paper, microfilm or microfiche.
▪ Distinguished practitioners and academics have produced volumes about managerial work and proposed a variety of conceptualizations.
▪ The process produces a much smaller volume of chemically inert radioactive waste than conventional ion exchange techniques.
▪ One family close by produced children in such volume that the parents ran out of names and began giving them numbers.
▪ Large multinational corporations produce and acquire vast volumes of information in the course of their business.
▪ The Society now wishes to produce another companion volume in the form of illustrations of labelled and name-stamped London furniture.
▪ This means that when heat is applied it will produce greater volumes of condensation.
▪ The computer can produce great volumes of rubbish at incredible speed.
publish
▪ In 1860 Louis Martinet published two volumes of photographs o principal works of contemporary art.
▪ A detailed index was published in a separate volume.
▪ It is published in 15 volumes by the Royal National Institute for the Blind.
▪ Its deliberations were published in two volumes by the University of Chicago Press, and subsequently reprinted several times.
▪ The Department of Health has published nine separate volumes of guidance on the Children Act.
▪ It was published in volume form in May 1839.
▪ This edition was published in 1950 as volume v of his Boswell, together with a separate Index to the whole.
reduce
▪ The use of a Working-Set database reduces the overall volume of text stored.
▪ Evaporated milk is sterilized homogenized milk that has been reduced in volume by about 60 percent loss of water.
▪ The chief aim is to reduce the solid volume of waste, offensive odours and to effect pathogen removal.
▪ It is subversive to companies that sell remediation-which explains why solid waste companies often block efforts to reduce the volume of garbage.
▪ Market loans reduce the volume of idle cash held by banks.
▪ Concentrated milk is prepared from pasteurized milk; the removal of water reduces volume to about one third.
▪ This was planned to reduce traffic volume by 40 percent.
speak
▪ Other than the face, hands are the most visible part of one's body and invariably speak volumes about a person.
▪ His grin spoke volumes to the back row.
▪ To many this brashness spoke volumes about the form which urban redevelopment was taking.
▪ But the juxtaposition of the two buildings speaks volumes about the rapid disappearance of regional, vernacular, even weirdo architecture.
▪ Her daring novel speaks volumes about the power of the imagination to transform an unbearable reality.
▪ Often, though, he speaks volumes when he chooses not to speak at all.
▪ A headhunter for ten years, Kinnaird has just been commissioned by his first female client, which speaks volumes.
▪ One can speak volumes with a few little sounds, given the proper context and intonation.
trade
▪ This month trading volume, now quoted in euros, has averaged Euros 190m.
▪ Nasdaq market decliners beat advancers 1, 496 to 1, 442 on total trading volume of 142. 7 million shares.
▪ So far both have traded in low volumes.
▪ Volume on the Big Board slumped to 130. 4 million shares, about one-third the average trading volume in recent weeks.
▪ That compares with three-month average daily trading volume of 570, 000 shares.
▪ All of the exchanges have upgraded their technology and communications systems to safely handle more trading volume.
▪ The exchange said Brady bond trading accounted for 77 percent of its total trading volume in 1995.
turn
▪ Insert the jack plug into the stereo unit earphone socket and turn the volume control to a low level.
▪ We turned the volume down but stayed up talking.
▪ Tim Renton is obviously the kind of person who would turn the volume down on a Johnny Mathis 78.
▪ He turned the volume up as loud as it would go and stared at the familiar faces on the screen.
▪ I turn the volume low, to stop picking up snatches of conversation from next door.
▪ They turned the volume high as it would go and moved the radio off the counter, down behind the stand.
▪ Others can make a loud noise when stopped and you have to turn the volume down.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
speak volumes (about/for sth)
▪ But the juxtaposition of the two buildings speaks volumes about the rapid disappearance of regional, vernacular, even weirdo architecture.
▪ His grin spoke volumes to the back row.
▪ Jack's tone spoke volumes, but Polly was trying not to listen.
▪ Often, though, he speaks volumes when he chooses not to speak at all.
▪ Other than the face, hands are the most visible part of one's body and invariably speak volumes about a person.
▪ The 8 successful trips so far speak volumes.
▪ The perpetual grin and I-just-won-the-lottery look on his face spoke volumes: The guy was ecstatic.
▪ Your body language will speak volumes about your happy state. 4 Inhibition decreases.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a volume of poetry
▪ a 13-volume report
▪ After 1998, there was a rapid fall in the volume of trade.
▪ Bill had the volume on the stereo turned up all the way.
▪ Help me figure out the volume of this fish tank.
▪ sales volume
▪ The volume of traffic on our roads has risen by 50% in the past three years.
▪ The period from 1940 to 1949 is in Volume 9.
▪ The shifting of continents has an impact on the volume of water the oceans can contain.
▪ The unit is equal to the volume of a container measuring 8 by 8 by 20 feet.
▪ This button here controls the volume.
▪ Turn the volume down - I can't hear myself think!
▪ You can use the remote control to turn the volume up or down.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In recent years, the volume of traffic has been doubling annually.
▪ In the 12 months to October its volume sales grew 101 % according to ACNielsen.
▪ It was a bizarre, almost surreal volume.
▪ That is the task of other volumes and even more of other authors.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Volume

Volume \Vol"ume\, n. [F., from L. volumen a roll of writing, a book, volume, from volvere, volutum, to roll. See Voluble.]

  1. A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients. [Obs.]

    The papyrus, and afterward the parchment, was joined together [by the ancients] to form one sheet, and then rolled upon a staff into a volume (volumen).
    --Encyc. Brit.

  2. Hence, a collection of printed sheets bound together, whether containing a single work, or a part of a work, or more than one work; a book; a tome; especially, that part of an extended work which is bound up together in one cover; as, a work in four volumes.

    An odd volume of a set of books bears not the value of its proportion to the set.
    --Franklin.

    4. Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.

    So glides some trodden serpent on the grass, And long behind wounded volume trails.
    --Dryden.

    Undulating billows rolling their silver volumes.
    --W. Irving.

    4. Dimensions; compass; space occupied, as measured by cubic units, that is, cubic inches, feet, yards, etc.; mass; bulk; as, the volume of an elephant's body; a volume of gas.

    5. (Mus.) Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone.

    Atomic volume, Molecular volume (Chem.), the ratio of the atomic and molecular weights divided respectively by the specific gravity of the substance in question.

    Specific volume (Physics & Chem.), the quotient obtained by dividing unity by the specific gravity; the reciprocal of the specific gravity. It is equal (when the specific gravity is referred to water at 4[deg] C. as a standard) to the number of cubic centimeters occupied by one gram of the substance.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
volume

late 14c., "roll of parchment containing writing; a bound book," from Old French volume "scroll, book; work, volume; girth, size" (13c.) and directly from Latin volumen (genitive voluminis) "roll (of a manuscript); coil, wreath," literally "that which is rolled," from volvere "to turn around, roll" (see volvox). Meaning "book forming part of a set" is 1520s in English, from that sense in French. Generalized sense of "bulk, mass, quantity" (1620s) developed from that of "bulk or size of a book" (1520s), again following the sense evolution in the French word.

Wiktionary
volume

n. 1 A unit of 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. Measured in decibels. 3 The issues of a periodical over a period of one year. 4 A bind#Verb book.

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WordNet
volume

  1. n. the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object; "the gas expanded to twice its original volume"

  2. the property of something that is great in magnitude; "it is cheaper to buy it in bulk"; "he received a mass of correspondence"; "the volume of exports" [syn: bulk, mass]

  3. physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together; "he used a large book as a doorstop" [syn: book]

  4. a publication that is one of a set of several similar publications; "the third volume was missing"; "he asked for the 1989 volume of the Annual Review"

  5. a relative amount; "mix one volume of the solution with ten volumes of water"

  6. the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction); "the kids played their music at full volume" [syn: loudness, intensity] [ant: softness]

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Wikipedia
Volume

Volume is the quantity of three-dimensional space enclosed by a closed surface, for example, the space that a substance ( solid, liquid, gas, or plasma) or shape occupies or contains. Volume is often quantified numerically using the SI derived unit, the cubic metre. The volume of a container is generally understood to be the capacity of the container, i. e. the amount of fluid (gas or liquid) that the container could hold, rather than the amount of space the container itself displaces.

Three dimensional mathematical shapes are also assigned volumes. Volumes of some simple shapes, such as regular, straight-edged, and circular shapes can be easily calculated using arithmetic formulas . Volumes of a complicated shape can be calculated by integral calculus if a formula exists for the shape's boundary. Where a variance in shape and volume occurs, such as those that exist between different human beings, these can be calculated using three-dimensional techniques such as the Body Volume Index. One-dimensional figures (such as lines) and two-dimensional shapes (such as squares) are assigned zero volume in the three-dimensional space.

The volume of a solid (whether regularly or irregularly shaped) can be determined by fluid displacement. Displacement of liquid can also be used to determine the volume of a gas. The combined volume of two substances is usually greater than the volume of one of the substances. However, sometimes one substance dissolves in the other and the combined volume is not additive.

In differential geometry, volume is expressed by means of the volume form, and is an important global Riemannian invariant. In thermodynamics, volume is a fundamental parameter, and is a conjugate variable to pressure.

Volume (disambiguation)

Volume has various meanings.

Volume (computing)

In the context of computer operating systems, a volume or logical drive is a single accessible storage area with a single file system, typically (though not necessarily) resident on a single partition of a hard disk. Although a volume might be different from a physical disk drive, it can still be accessed with an operating system's logical interface. However, a volume differs from a partition.

Volume (magazine)

Volume was a magazine in the form of a series of compact disc compilation albums that were published in the UK in the early to mid 1990s. The albums typically contained exclusive tracks and remixes from a diverse range of indie artists. Each album was packaged with a 192-page booklet that contained features on the artists, and original articles. The booklet was the size and shape of a CD jewel case, and was usually packaged with the CD case in a cardboard sleeve. Volume One, the first issue, was published in September 1991. The series came to an end in January 1997, with Volume Seventeen.

Volume (bibliography)

A volume is a physical book in codex format. It may be printed or manuscript. The term may be used to identify a single book that is part of a larger collection.

The term is also used as an identifier for a sequence of periodicals, generally based on a single calendar year. However, a school magazine might start each new volume at the beginning of the academic year, or at the beginning of each term/semester. Thus, all issues published in the Nth term or year will be classified under the Nth volume.

Volume (thermodynamics)

In thermodynamics, the volume of a system is an important extensive parameter for describing its thermodynamic state. The specific volume, an intensive property, is the system's volume per unit of mass. Volume is a function of state and is interdependent with other thermodynamic properties such as pressure and temperature. For example, volume is related to the pressure and temperature of an ideal gas by the ideal gas law.

The physical volume of a system may or may not coincide with a control volume used to analyze the system.

Volume (finance)

In capital markets, volume, or trading volume, is the amount (total number) of a security (or a given set of securities, or an entire market) that were traded during a given period of time. In the context of a single stock trading on a stock exchange, the volume is commonly reported as the number of shares that changed hands during a given day.

The average volume of a security over a longer period of time is the total amount traded in that period, divided by the length of the period. Therefore, the unit of measurement for average volume is shares per unit of time, typically per day.

Volume (video game)

Volume is an indie stealth-based video game developed by Mike Bithell Games. It was released for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and PlayStation 4 in August 2015, and the PlayStation Vita version in January 2016. The game uses stealth mechanics inspired by Metal Gear Solid, allowing the player to plan courses of action to work through levels without being detected by guards, dogs, and automated security turrets to reach specific objectives. In addition to the game's levels, Volume supports user-made levels that can be shared with others. The game presents a modern take on the Robin Hood legend, where a young thief discovers a plot for a military coup involving various heists, and uses a device called "Volume" with the assistance of its artificial intelligence to perform these heists in a virtual manner and broadcasting them to the world at large to make the coup known. The story is presented with help of voice actors Charlie McDonnell, Danny Wallace, Dan Bull, and Andy Serkis.

Volume (album)

Volume is the sixth studio album from Welsh rock band Skindred. It was released on 30 October 2015.

Volume (film)

Volume is a 2012 short film directed by Mahalia Belo and written by Anna Ingeborg Topsøe starring Joe Cole and Anna Brewster. It won the Best British Short film at the 2012 Moët British Independent Film Awards and the Grand Jury Prize for Best Film at San Francisco Shorts 2013. It was also part of the official selection at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival while also appearing at numerous other film festival. Volume was director Mahalia Belo's graduation short at the National Film and Television School (NTFS).

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Usage examples of "volume".

The volume opens with the Normandy invasion, and Churchill recalls with evident admiration and relief the heroic landing of the redoubtable Allied armies as they effect the most remarkable amphibious operation in military history.

She had no amplifier, but no matter: there was time for volume later on.

Christa picked up Ceis and threw the volume knobs of her amplifier full on.

When the views entertained in this volume on the origin of species, or when analogous views are generally admitted, we can dimly foresee that there will be a considerable revolution in natural history.

To deal even remotely with all that is being said and done against Anarchism would necessitate the writing of a whole volume.

Chenon, now also passed away, was a faithful and discerning reader, whose vast culture gave his comments particular weight in my eyes, and I felt his anticipation of future volumes as a great compliment.

I had always lived a perfectly sheltered life back in Boston, with the antimacassars and the walnut furniture and the volumes of Emerson and Thoreau.

It was hard to follow them very far: the surrounding night crowded in on his ears with its competing antiphony of innumerable frogs and insects and small beasts of unimaginable variety, a background orchestration that you could forget entirely until you wanted to listen for something else and then it seemed to swell up into deafening volume.

He published the first collected volume of poetry by Opitz in Strasbourg in 1624 and an influential collection of proverbs and apothegms in 1626.

He could send me in among the Rotations and the stage crowd and the golfers and the arty types talking about statements of profiles rather than volumes and the musical.

The paper was first presented at an anthropological conference in 1975 and was to appear in a symposium volume.

These attenuated volumes of poetry in fancy bindings open their covers at one like so many little unfledged birds, and one does so long to drop a worm in,--a worm in the shape of a kind word for the poor fledgling!

But for that precaution I should not have been able to lay before the reader the autograph documents in my possession, and which I imagine form the most essential part of these volumes.

Before Mr Hawk had settled himself comfortably, Blotto was snoring with increased volume, so much so, in fact, that he woke up even himself.

The One-volume edition will be printed from a new fount of Brevier Ancient type, on toned paper, and will be the most compact and readable edition of Shakespeare ever issued in a single volume.