volume
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- noun
- /ˈvɑːl.juːm/
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- A brief biography of M'Call can be found in the 1909 single-volume edition of his work.
- an edited volume
- a published volume
- two volumes
Now Procto Franzau was aghast, remarking this fat volume was quite unnecessary.
- Now Procto Franzau was aghast, remarking this fat volume was quite unnecessary.
- They go now in English sticker, which may mean that the older volumes are also in English.
- I'm, I'm, I'm reading Robert Caro's latest volume in his biography of Lyndon Johnson.
- That is the one original piece of writing in this volume, the introduction by Mark Tweeter.
- It's in the Feynman Lectures, volume three, first chapter.
- But all he could do was read the first page of the first volume.
- Dark Church is the third volume of an ongoing long poem called Terra Lucida.
Examples
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I had the impertinence to ask him for a volume of his poems.
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Now, I've just finished the third volume of Robert Caro's Life of Lyndon Johnson, and I am dying for the next instalment.
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The book by her bed is Christian Thoughts... Volume Two.
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Can I check one of these volumes out?
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Thank you for sending my volume of Emerson.
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The diaries were published in five volumes during the 1950s, edited by the author herself.
Academic text (1999) -
In a moment, she returned and held out a slim volume bound in maroon calfskin.
Fiction book (1990) -
I've read Das Kapital, all three volumes.
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Well, I cowrote a volume on Sabaean civilization, working with artefacts that were retrieved after the Ethiopia-Eritrea conflict.
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I just started reading the first book in the series, which is the volume about ancient civilizations.
Synonyms
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A set of written or printed pages bound together with a cover
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A large, heavy book about a serious subject like history or science
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6.4
One book in a set, for example an encyclopedia
Compounds
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3.9
The total amount of money from sales or trades in US dollars over a period
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A process in which the space a gas takes stays the same while pressure or temperature change
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A bomb that spreads fuel into the air and then sets it on fire to make a very large explosion
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A unit used to measure how much space something takes, like a cup or liter
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Volume originally meant a roll or book in Latin volumen, from volvere 'to roll', like pages rolled together; it is the same root as revolve ('to roll'). So a volume is literally one book in a set or series.