value

Definitions of value in various dictionaries:

noun - a numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed

noun - the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable

noun - the amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else

noun - relative darkness or lightness of a color

noun - (music) the relative duration of a musical note

noun - an ideal accepted by some individual or group

verb - fix or determine the value of

verb - hold dear

verb - regard highly

verb - evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of

verb - estimate the value of

An amount, as of goods, services, or money, considered to be a fair and suitable equivalent for something else; a fair price or return.

Monetary or material worth: the fluctuating value of gold and silver.

Worth in usefulness or importance to the possessor; utility or merit: the value of an education.

A principle, standard, or quality considered worthwhile or desirable: “The speech was a summons back to the patrician values of restraint and responsibility” (Jonathan Alter).

Precise meaning or import, as of a word.

An assigned or calculated numerical quantity.

The relative duration of a tone or rest.

The 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).

The sound quality of a letter or diphthong.

One of a series of specified values: issued a stamp of new value.

To determine or estimate the worth or value of; appraise.

To regard highly; esteem.

To rate according to relative estimate of worth or desirability; evaluate: valued health above money.

To assign a value to (a unit of currency, for example).

verb - to estimate the value (the quality that renders a thing useful or desirable) of