volume

1. volume (noun) — sense 1

Definition: A three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height. It is measured in units of cubic centimeters in metric, cubic inches or cubic feet in English measurement.

Example: The room is 9×12×8, so its volume is 864 cubic feet.

Concept: Объём

Polarities of the concept

2. volume (noun) — sense 2

Definition: Strength of sound: how loud it is.

Example: Please turn down the volume on the stereo.

3. volume (noun) — sense 3

Definition: The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.

Example: I looked at this week's copy of the magazine. It was volume 23, issue 45.

4. volume (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To be conveyed through the air, waft.

Example: […] thumping guns and pattering musket-shots, the long big boom of surgent hosts, and the muffled voluming and crash of storm-bells, proclaimed that the insurrection was hot.

5. volume (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To cause to move through the air, waft.

Example: We lay leaning over the bows, now looking up at the mist blown in never-ending volumed sheets, now at the sail swelling in the wind before which it fled, and again down at the water through which our boat was ploughing its evanescent furrow.

6. volume (verb) — sense 6

Definition: To swell.