Meaning of "value" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD VALUE

From Old French, from valoir, from Latin valēre to be worth, be strong.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF VALUE

value  [ˈvæljuː]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VALUE

Value is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb value in English.

WHAT DOES VALUE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of value in the English dictionary

The first definition of value in the dictionary is the desirability of a thing, often in respect of some property such as usefulness or exchangeability; worth, merit, or importance. Other definition of value is an amount, esp a material or monetary one, considered to be a fair exchange in return for a thing; assigned valuation. Value is also reasonable or equivalent return; satisfaction.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO VALUE

PRESENT

Present

I value

you value

he/she/it values

we value

you value

they value

Present continuous

I am valuing

you are valuing

he/she/it is valuing

we are valuing

you are valuing

they are valuing

Present perfect

I have valued

you have valued

he/she/it has valued

we have valued

you have valued

they have valued

Present perfect continuous

I have been valuing

you have been valuing

he/she/it has been valuing

we have been valuing

you have been valuing

they have been valuing

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I valued

you valued

he/she/it valued

we valued

you valued

they valued

Past continuous

I was valuing

you were valuing

he/she/it was valuing

we were valuing

you were valuing

they were valuing

Past perfect

I had valued

you had valued

he/she/it had valued

we had valued

you had valued

they had valued

Past perfect continuous

I had been valuing

you had been valuing

he/she/it had been valuing

we had been valuing

you had been valuing

they had been valuing

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will value

you will value

he/she/it will value

we will value

you will value

they will value

Future continuous

I will be valuing

you will be valuing

he/she/it will be valuing

we will be valuing

you will be valuing

they will be valuing

Future perfect

I will have valued

you will have valued

he/she/it will have valued

we will have valued

you will have valued

they will have valued

Future perfect continuous

I will have been valuing

you will have been valuing

he/she/it will have been valuing

we will have been valuing

you will have been valuing

they will have been valuing

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would value

you would value

he/she/it would value

we would value

you would value

they would value

Conditional continuous

I would be valuing

you would be valuing

he/she/it would be valuing

we would be valuing

you would be valuing

they would be valuing

Conditional perfect

I would have value

you would have value

he/she/it would have value

we would have value

you would have value

they would have value

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been valuing

you would have been valuing

he/she/it would have been valuing

we would have been valuing

you would have been valuing

they would have been valuing

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you value
we let´s value
you value

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to value

Past participle

valued

Present Participle

valuing

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «VALUE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «value» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of value

account · admire · advantage · appraise · appreciate · asking price · assess · benefit · cherish · code of behaviour · compute · cost · desirability · effectiveness · efficacy · equivalent · esteem · estimate · ethics · evaluate · face value · help · importance · market price · merit · mileage · morals · mores · point · practicality · price · principles · prize · profit · rate · respect · selling price · sense · service · serviceableness · significance · survey · think much of · treasure · use · usefulness · utility · worth

TRANSLATION OF VALUE

Find out the translation of value to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of value from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «value» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 价值
• Translator English - Spanish: valor
• English: value
• Translator English - Hindi: मूल्य
• Translator English - Arabic: قِيمَة
• Translator English - Russian: ценность
• Translator English - Portuguese: valor
• Translator English - Bengali: মান
• Translator English - French: valeur
• Translator English - Malay: Nilai
• Translator English - German: Wert
• Translator English - Japanese: 価値
• Translator English - Korean: 가치
• Translator English - Javanese: Nilai
• Translator English - Vietnamese: giá trị
• Translator English - Tamil: மதிப்பு
• Translator English - Marathi: मूल्य
• Translator English - Turkish: değer
• Translator English - Italian: valore
• Translator English - Polish: wartość
• Translator English - Ukrainian: цінність
• Translator English - Romanian: valoare
• Translator English - Greek: αξία
• Translator English - Afrikaans: waarde
• Translator English - Swedish: värde
• Translator English - Norwegian: verdi

10 QUOTES WITH «VALUE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word value.

1

Peter Ackroyd

I don't know if I have a voice of my own. I don't see me being an important person with something to say. I haven't. I've got nothing to say. My opinion is of no consequence or value.

2

Marco Arment

I've worked with many large and small publishers, and nearly all of them love the value that Instapaper provides to their readers.

3

Jacques Audiard

I really believe the form of the film must be in the scenario; cinema is not just added value to the scripting. I believe in it as a totality.

4

Jan Peter Balkenende

Freedom is a universal value.

5

Greg Brenneman

I pass on any opportunity I see that I can't add value on.

6

Ursula Burns

I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.

7

Robert Byrd

Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.

8

Ciara

If a person uses the word 'sorry' loosely then of course it loses its value.

9

Leonard Cohen

We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?

10

Phil Condit

Our entire team is focused on managing this company for value - fixing or eliminating those operations that lessen value and expanding or adding those that enhance value.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VALUE»

Discover the use of value in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to value and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

The Shareholder Value Myth: How Putting Shareholders First ...

Executives, investors, and the business press routinely chant the mantra that corporations are required to “maximize shareholder value.” In this pathbreaking book, renowned corporate expert Lynn Stout debunks the myth that corporate law ...

Lynn A. Stout, 2012

Quantitative Value: A Practitioner's Guide to Automating ...

Where they align is in their belief that the market is beatable. This book seeks to take the best aspects of value investing and quantitative investing as disciplines and apply them to a completely unique approach to stock selection.

Wesley R. Gray, Tobias E. Carlisle, 2012

Creating and Delivering Your Value Proposition: Managing ...

Creating and Delivering your Value Proposition provides guidance for business leaders - demonstrating why having a strong value proposition is so important for a company.

Cindy Barnes, Helen Blake, David Pinder, 2009

Value in Ethics and Economics

Elizabeth Anderson offers a new theory of value and rationality that rejects cost-benefit analysis in our social lives and in our ethical theories.

Elizabeth Anderson, 1995

Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond

"This book deserves a place on every serious investor’s shelf." –FINANCIAL TIMES "A must-read for all disciples of value investing. In 1934, Graham and Dodd created fundamental security analysis.

Bruce C. N. Greenwald, Judd Kahn, Paul D. Sonkin, 2004

Culture and Value

Selections from the notebooks of the distinguished philosopher discuss subjects such as music, religion, thinking, science, architecture, and civilization

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Georg Henrik Wright, Heikki Nyman, 1984

Value Engineering: Analysis And Methodology

The book shows how to maximize budgets, reduce life cycle costs, improve project understanding, and create better working relationships.

Del Younker, 2003

Learning to See: Value Stream Mapping to Add Value and ...

Value-stream maps are the blueprints for lean transformations and Learning to See is an easy-to-read, step-by-step instruction manual that teaches this valuable tool to anyone, regardless of his or her background.This groundbreaking ...

Mike Rother, John Shook, 2003

Nutritive Value of Foods

An extensive table of nutritive values for household measures of thousands of commonly used foods.

Susan E. Gebhardt, 1994

The Value Management Benchmark: A good practice framework ...

See also related publications The Value Management Benchmark: The Research results and The Value Management Benchmark CD. THE FRAMEWORK DOCUMENT, THE RESEARCH DOCUMENT AND THE INTERACTIVE CD ARE AVAILABLE AT A SPECIAL COMBINED PRICE OF ...

Steven Male, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VALUE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term value is used in the context of the following news items.

Can a Macy's REIT Really Work? Starboard Value Argues Yes

At the Delivering Alpha conference Jeff Smith of Starboard Value claimed the value of Macy's real estate holdings is not the $7.8 billion value carried on Macy's ... «TheStreet.com, Jul 15»

Whole Foods: New value chain to be called '365 by Whole Foods …

Austin-based Whole Foods Market unveiled the name of its value brand chain early Thursday, saying the new concept will called “365 by Whole Foods Market.”. «Austin American-Statesman, Jun 15»

Apple recovers top 'brand value' spot from Google with $247B …

1 position in 2014 to Google, climbed to an estimated $247 billion in brand value, said the research firm, which specializes in advertising effectiveness and ... «Computerworld, May 15»

Real Madrid Tops Ranking Of The World's Most Valuable Soccer …

The performance would have been even more dramatic if not for the increase in the value of the U.S. dollar versus the Euro. In Euros, the value of the top 20 ... «Forbes, May 15»

New Rankings Gauge Colleges' 'Value Added' by Measuring Alumni …

To come up with value-added measures, the think tank compared the performance of a college's alumni on each gauge to their expected performance based on ... «Chronicle of Higher Education, Apr 15»

Total Value Of Earth's Ocean Is $24 Trillion, But It's Falling Fast: WWF

A new scientific study has assessed all of the ocean's resources and assets, giving it a combined value of $24 trillion, which would make it the world's seventh ... «International Business Times, Apr 15»

Is Sprint's New International Value Roaming's Free International …

Sprint now offers International Value Roaming, which claims “unlimited international data and text”. The best part of this is there's no additional monthly fee. «Forbes, Apr 15»

Yahoo targeted again by activist investor Starboard Value

SUNNYVALE -- Not satisfied with Yahoo's $40 billion tax-free spinoff of its Alibaba shares, activist investor Starboard Value sent another letter Monday to CEO ... «San Jose Mercury News, Mar 15»

Mika Brzezinski launches new women's conference venture …

Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC's “Morning Joe” and author of the 2011 bestseller “Knowing Your Value,” is launching a new venture this year — a series of ... «Washington Post, Feb 15»

Has Apple's value peaked?

Earlier this week, Apple became the first U.S. company with a market value above $700 billion. Its sales soared in the second half of 2014, and the iPhone 6 has ... «Fortune, Feb 15»