volume

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  Mr. Punch volume twenty five
• WordNet 3.6
  • n volume physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together "he used a large book as a doorstop"
  • n volume the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction) "the kids played their music at full volume"
  • n volume 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"
  • n volume 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"
  • n volume the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object "the gas expanded to twice its original volume"
  • n volume a relative amount "mix one volume of the solution with ten volumes of water"
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the twenty fifth volume

REVERENTLY SHE LAID THE HEAVY CALF-BOUND VOLUME ACROSS HER KNEES

One hundred and forty-Sixth Volume

Volume 101

• Interesting fact: The total volume of mail that went through the Canadian postal system in 1950 was 1,362,310,155 items
• • Volume A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients. "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 )."
  • Volume (Mus) Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone.
  • Volume 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.""Undulating billows rolling their silver volumes ."
  • Volume 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.
  • Volume 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."
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• Interesting fact: The average Hostess Twinkie is 68 percent air as measured by volume according to university researchers
• • n volume A measure of the relative quantity of a substance as determined by its bulk.
  • n volume A written document (as of parchment, papyrus, or strips of bark) rolled up in a convenient form for keeping or use, such being anciently the prevailing form of the book; a roll; a scroll. The written sheets were usually wound around a stick, termed an umbilicus, the extremities of which were called the cornua, to which a label containing the name of the author was tied. The whole was placed in a wrapper, and frequently anointed with oil of cedarwood as a preservative against insects.
  • n volume Hence2. A collection of written or printed sheets bound together, whether containing a single complete work, a part of a work, or more than one separate work; a book; a tome: as, a large volume; a work in six volumes.
  • n volume Something of a roll-like, rounded, or swelling form; a rounded mass; a coil; a convolution; a wreath; a fold: as, volumes of smoke.
  • n volume An amount or measure of tridimensional space; solid contents; hence, an amount or aggregated quantity of any kind.
  • n volume In music, quantity, fullness, or roundness of tone or sound.
  • volume To swell; rise in bulk or volume.
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• Interesting fact: Hot water weighs less than cold water for a given volume.
• • n Volume vol′ūm a roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books: a book, whether complete in itself or part of a work: a rounded mass, convolution: cubical content: a quantity: dimensions: fullness of voice
  • v.i Volume to swell
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• Laurence Sterne

  

  “A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.”
• William Ellery Channing

  

  “Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.”
• Voltaire

  

  “Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.”
• Oscar Wilde

  

  “Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.”
• Martin Tupper

  

  “Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?”
• Voltaire

  

  “Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.”

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