ETYM Old Eng. acount, account, accompt, Old Fren. acont, from aconter. Related to Account, Count.
1. A formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services; SYN. business relationship.
2. A statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance;SYN. accounting, account statement.
3. Importance or value.
4. The quality of taking advantage.
5. A record or narrative description of past events
6. A short account of the news
7. Importance or value
8. The act of informing by verbal report
9. The quality of taking advantage
1. A motion or gesture by which a thought is expressed or a command or wish made known; signal; a fundamental linguistic unit that designates an object or relation or has a purely syntactic function; one of a set of gestures used to represent language; also; sign language
2. A mark having a conventional meaning and used in place of words or to represent a complex notion
3. One of the 12 divisions of the zodiac
4. A character (as a flat or sharp) used in musical notation; segno; a character indicating a mathematical operation; also; one of two characters + and - that form part of the symbol of a number and characterize it as positive or negative
5. A display (as a lettered board or a configuration of neon tubing) used to identify or advertise a place of business or a product; a posted command, warning, or direction; signboard
6. Something material or external that stands for or signifies something spiritual; something indicating the presence or existence of something else; presage, portent; an objective evidence of plant or animal disease
ETYM Old Fren. value, from valoir, p. p. valu, to be worth, from Latin valere to be strong, to be worth. Related to Valiant.
1. The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else; SYN. economic value.
2. The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.
3. A numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed.
4. An ideal accepted by some individual or group.
5. Relative darkness or lightness of a color.
6. (Music) The relative duration of a musical note; SYN. time value, note value.
ETYM Old Eng. vertu, French vertu, Latin virtus strength, courage, excellence, virtue, from vir a man. Related to Virile, Virtu.
1. A particular moral excellence.
2. Morality with respect to sexual relations; SYN. chastity, sexual morality.
3. The quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong; SYN. virtuousness, moral excellence.
Originally, ability or efficiency, often involving moral worth. In classical Greek it is used especially to refer to manly qualities. Christian teaching distinguishes the cardinal virtues of prudence, temperance, fortitude, and justice, from the theological virtues of faith, hope, and love (or charity) which St Paul gives as the basis of Christian life.
ETYM Old Eng. worth, wurth, as. weorth, wurth; weorth, wurth, adj . Related to Worth.
1. An indefinite quantity of something having a specified value.
2. The quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful.
The quality or state of having merit or value.
die Bedeutung, die Gütern für die Bedürfnisbefriedigung beigemessen wird; Gebrauchs-W. (nach subjektiver W.schätzung) u. Tausch-W. (in Geld ausgedrückt: Preis).
ETYM Old Eng. worth, wurth, AS. weorth, wurE; akin to OFries. werth, OS. werth, Dutch waard, Old High Germ. werd, German wert, werth, Icel. verthr, Swed. värd, Dan. vaerd, Goth. waírps, and perhaps to Eng. wary. Related to Stalwart, Ware an article of merchandise, Worship.
Having a specified value; SYN. valued at.
1. Having monetary or material value.
2. Estimable.