Volume
['vɒljuːm] or ['vɑljum]
解释:
(noun.) the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction); 'the kids played their music at full volume'.
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object; 'the gas expanded to twice its original volume'.
(noun.) a relative amount; 'mix one volume of the solution with ten volumes of water'.
编辑:朱利叶斯--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone.
弗里达编辑
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Convolution, turn, contortion, whirl, fold, coil, roll, scroll.[2]. Book, tome.[3]. Dimensions, bulk, size, mass, compass, amplitude, CAPACITY.[4]. (Geom.) Solid contents.
录入:萨姆纳
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Size, body, bulk, dimensions, book, work, tome, capacity, magnitude, compass,quantity
ANT:diminutiveness, tenuity, minuteness, smallness
阿奇校对
解释:
n. 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. to swell.—adj. Vol′umed having the form of a volume or roll: of volume or bulk.—ns. Volumenom′eter an instrument for measuring the volume of a solid body by the quantity of fluid it displaces; Vol′umēter an instrument for measuring the volumes of gases.—adjs. Volumet′ric -al.—adv. Volumet′rically.—adjs. Volū′minal pertaining to cubical content; Volū′minous consisting of many volumes or books or of many coils: of great bulk: having written much as an author: in many volumes capable of filling many volumes.—adv. Volū′minously.—ns. Volū′minousness Voluminos′ity; Vol′ūmist (rare) an author.—Volumetric analysis the analysis of a compound by determining the quantity of a standard solution required to satisfy a reaction in a known quantity of the compound.—Speak Tell volumes to mean much to be very significant.
乔纳森手打
例句:
- Rivers and pipes have their metres, so that now the velocity and volume of rivers and streams are measured and controlled, and floods prevented. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Here's a burial volume, just the thing! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Gay-Lussac found that two volumes of h ydrogen combined with one volume of oxygen to produce two volumes of water vapor. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- She hesitated for a moment, holding the little volume fondly in her hands--then lifted it to her lips and kissed it. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The first volume, as well as a portion of the second, was written before I had reason to suppose I was in a critical condition of health. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- One edition passes into another, and that into a third, and so on, till we come to that volume we peruse at present. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- An incident of evaporation is the passing from the limited volume of a liquid to the greatly increased volume of a gas. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Just thirty years later, on a similar trip over the same ground, he jotted down for this volume some of his reminiscences. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Each volume brought a remembrance or a suggestion of his dead friend. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- Some of the stories were told for this volume. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- As the din of the drum rose to almost deafening volume Kerchak sprang into the open space between the squatting males and the drummers. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- At this present time, he is seated at the table, making notes from a volume of the family library he has been reading. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- I should be quarrelling with all my new books, said Mary, lifting the volume on the table. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Mix, and add one-half its volume of pure coal-tar and boil to a fluid mass. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- Though the workmen were now growing more weary and disheartened with each new volume they undertook, Gutenberg would not give up. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Gay-Lussac found that two volumes of h ydrogen combined with one volume of oxygen to produce two volumes of water vapor. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Volumes of letters and portfolios of testimonials, if you like! 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- All those rows of volumes--will you not now do what you used to speak of? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- To every right-feeling person of my own sex, volumes could say no more. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Of the eight volumes already issued, each containing about 350 closely printed pages for half-a-crown, nearly 170,000 copies have been sold within a period of less than three years. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- Nearly 300,000 volumes have already been printed of this edition. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- Two letters have passed between these parties, letters which are admitted to be in the handwriting of the defendant, and which speak volumes, indeed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- The number of volumes at this time in the imperial library was increased, we are told, to 54,000. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Burton's Historical Collections_; they were small chapmen's books, and cheap, 40 volumes in all. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- The account of the French taxes, which takes up three volumes in quarto, may be regarded as perfectly authentic. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Air has usually been held to consist of four volumes of nitrogen and one volume of oxygen, with a very small proportion of carbonic acid gas and ammonia. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- But what volumes of meaning in them! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- The Marxian paraphernalia crowds three heavy volumes, so elaborate and difficult that socialists rarely read them. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- My uncle Benjamin, too, approved of it, and proposed to give me his shorthand volumes of sermons to set up with, if I would learn shorthand. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
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