value

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun An amount, as of goods, services, or money, considered to be a fair and suitable equivalent for something else; a fair price or return.
• noun Monetary or material worth.
• noun Worth in usefulness or importance to the possessor; utility or merit.
• noun A principle or standard, as of behavior, that is considered important or desirable.
• noun Precise meaning or import, as of a word.
• noun Mathematics A quantity or number expressed by an algebraic term.
• noun Music The relative duration of a tone or rest.
• noun The relative darkness or lightness of a color.
• noun Linguistics The sound quality of a letter or diphthong.
• noun One of a series of specified values.
• transitive verb To determine or estimate the worth or value of; appraise.
• transitive verb To regard highly; esteem: synonym: appreciate.
• transitive verb To rate according to relative estimate of worth or desirability; evaluate.
• transitive verb To assign a value to (a unit of currency, for example).
• adjective Of or relating to the practice of investing in individual securities that, according to some fundamental measure, such as book value, appear to be relatively less expensive than comparable securities.
• adjective Relating to or consisting of principles or standards.

from The Century Dictionary.

• See cruise, 2.
• noun Value which is socially recognized, in contrast with purely personal valuation. Thus an heirloom may be said to be of small intrinsic value, although highly valued by its possessor.
• noun Value as determined by ordinary market conditions, as contrasted with value with which an object is endowed by virtue of convention or governmental flat. Thus paper money is often said to be devoid of intrinsic value.
• noun In mathematics, the value of the function represented by the ordinate of a turning point.
• noun Worth; the property or properties of a thing in virtue of which it is useful or estimable, or the degree in which such a character is possessed; utility; importance; excellence: applied to both persons and things.
• noun Estimated or attributed worth; appreciation; valuation; esteem; regard.
• noun The amount of other commodities (commonly represented by money) for which a thing can be exchanged in open market: the ratio in which one thing exchanges against others; the command which one commodity has over others in traffic; in a restricted (and the common popular) sense, the amount of money for which a thing can be sold; price.
• noun Price equal to the intrinsic worth of a thing; real equivalent.
• noun Import; precise signification: as, the value of a word or phrase.
• noun In music, the relative length or duration of a tone signified by a note: as, a half-note has the value of two quarternotes, or four sixteenth-notes; to give a note its full value.
• noun In painting and the allied arts, relation of one object, part, or atmospheric plane of a picture to the others, with reference to light and shade, the idea of hue being abstracted.
• noun In mathematics, the special determination of a quantity.
• noun In biology, grade or rank in classification; valence: as, a group having the value of a family.
• To estimate the value or worth of; specifically, to rate at a certain price; appraise: as, to value lands or goods.
• To consider with respect to value, worth, or importance; rate, whether high or low; regard.
• Specifically, to rate high; have in high esteem; set much by; prize; appreciate; regard; hold in respect or estimation; reflexively, to pride (one's self).
• To reckon or estimate with respect to number or power; compute; compare (with another person or thing) with respect to price or excellence.
• To take account of; take into account; hence, to care for; consider as important.
• To raise to estimation; cause to have value, either real or apparent.
• To give out or represent as wealthy, or financially sound.
• To be worth; be equal in worth to; be an equivalent of.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To estimate the value, or worth, of; to rate at a certain price; to appraise; to reckon with respect to number, power, importance, etc.
• transitive verb To rate highly; to have in high esteem; to hold in respect and estimation; to appreciate; to prize.
• transitive verb obsolete To raise to estimation; to cause to have value, either real or apparent; to enhance in value.
• transitive verb obsolete To be worth; to be equal to in value.
• noun The property or aggregate properties of a thing by which it is rendered useful or desirable, or the degree of such property or sum of properties; worth; excellence; utility; importance.
• noun (Trade & Polit. Econ.) Worth estimated by any standard of purchasing power, especially by the market price, or the amount of money agreed upon as an equivalent to the utility and cost of anything.
• noun Precise signification; import
• noun Esteem; regard.
• noun (Mus.) The relative length or duration of a tone or note, answering to quantity in prosody; thus, a quarter note [�] has the value of two eighth notes [�].
• noun In an artistical composition, the character of any one part in its relation to other parts and to the whole; -- often used in the plural.
• noun obsolete Valor.
• noun That property of a color by which it is distinguished as bright or dark; luminosity.