Difference between revisions of "Volume"

<p> VOL'UME, n. L. volumen, a roll volvo, to roll. to make u long, in this word, is palpably wrong. </p> 1. Primarily a roll, as the ancients wrote on long strips of bark, parchment or other material, which they formed into rolls or folds. Of such volumes, Ptolemy's library in [[Alexandria]] contained 3 or 700,000. 2. A roll or turn as much as is included in a roll or coil as the volume of a serpent. 3. Dimensions compass space occupied as the volume of an elephant's body a volume of gas. 4. A swelling or spherical body. <p> The undulating billows rolling their silver volumes. </p> 5. A book a collection of sheets of paper, usually printed or written paper, folded and bound, or covered. A book consisting of sheets once folded, is called a folio, or a folio volume of sheets twice folded, a quarto and thus according to the number of leaves in a sheet, it is called an octavo, or a duodecimo. The [[Scriptures]] or sacred writings, bound in a single volume, are called the Bible. The number of volumes in the [[Royal]] Library, in rue de Richlieu, at Paris, is variously estimated. It is probable it may amount to 400,000. <p> An odd volume of a set of books, bears not the value of its proportion to the set. </p> 6. In music, the compass of a voice from grave to acute the tone or power of voice.

<p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) [[Anything]] of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' 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. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' n.) A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' n.) Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone. </p> <p> '''(5):''' ''' (''' 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. </p>

<p> ''''' vol´ū́m ''''' : This word (from Latin <i> volvere </i> , "roll"), twice used in the King James Version (&nbsp; Psalm 40:7 (Hebrew <i> ''''' meghillāh ''''' </i> ); &nbsp;Hebrews 10:7 ), is better in English as "roll" in the Revised Version (British and American). See [[Roll]] . </p>

<p> ( '''''מַגַלָּה''''' , &nbsp;Psalms 40:7, a ''Roll,'' as elsewhere rendered; '''''Κεφαλίς''''' , &nbsp;Hebrews 10:7, a [[Chapter]] ) ''.'' See Book. </p>