Word Type
Value can be a verb or a noun.
value used as a verb:
- To estimate the cost of; judge the worth of something.
"I will have the family jewels valued by a professional." - To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon.
"Gold was valued highly among the Romans." - To fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work.
- To hold dear.
"I value these old photographs."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
value used as a noun:
- The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
"The Shakespearean Shylock is of dubious value in the modern world." - The degree of importance you give to something.
"The value of my children's happiness is second only to that of my wife." - The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else
"He tried to estimate the value of the produce at normal prices." - The relative duration of a musical note.
"The value of a crotchet is twice that of a quaver." - The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
""I establish the colors and principal values by organizing the painting into three values--dark, medium...and light." -Joe Hing Lowe" - Numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed.
"The exact value of pi can never be computed."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is value?
- Verb usage: I will have the family jewels valued by a professional.
- Verb usage: Gold was valued highly among the Romans.
- Verb usage: I value these old photographs.
- Noun usage: The Shakespearean Shylock is of dubious value in the modern world.
- Noun usage: The value of my children's happiness is second only to that of my wife.
- Noun usage: He tried to estimate the value of the produce at normal prices.
- Noun usage: The value of a crotchet is twice that of a quaver.
- Noun usage: "I establish the colors and principal values by organizing the painting into three values--dark, medium...and light." -Joe Hing Lowe
- Noun usage: The exact value of pi can never be computed.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of value are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of value, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
