The act or process of assessing value or price; an appraisal, The plot survey comprises the measurement of the stand, or a given portion of it, upon isolated plots not in the form of strips, An estimation of something's worth

An amount, as of goods, services, or money, considered to be a fair and suitable equivalent for something else; a fair price or return, A principle or standard, as of behavior, that is considered important or desirable, The relative darkness or lightness of a color, 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, Relating to or consisting of principles or standards, transitive verb_ To assign a value to (a unit of currency, for example), To determine or estimate the worth or value of; appraise, To estimate the value, or worth, of; to rate at a certain price; to appraise; to reckon with respect to number, power, importance, etc

Highly regarded; esteemed; prized, held in great esteem for admirable qualities especially of an intrinsic nature, Having a value, esteemed, verb_ Simple past tense and past participle of value

plural of value, a collection of guiding principles; what one deems to be correct and desirable in life, especially regarding personal conduct, beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something)

Any of various devices that regulate the flow of gases, liquids, or loose materials through piping or through apertures by opening, closing, or obstructing ports or passageways, One of the two siliceous halves of the cell wall of a diatom, A clack- or flap-valve, transitive verb_ To provide with a valve, To control by means of a valve

Plural form of valve

In popular folklore, an undead being in human form that survives by sucking the blood of living people, especially at night, A kind of spectral being or ghost still possessing a human body, which, according to a superstition existing among the Slavic and other races on the lower Danube, leaves the grave during the night, and maintains a semblance of life by sucking the warm blood of living men and women while they are asleep, (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living

An enclosed boxlike motor vehicle having rear or side doors and side panels especially for transporting people, A winnowing device, such as a fan, Any large covered carriage; specifically, a large covered wagon used in moving furniture and household effects, intransitive verb_ To transport by van, To drive or travel in a van, transitive verb_ obsolete To fan, or to cleanse by fanning; to winnow, To transport in a van or similar vehicle (especially of horses)

The seedpod of this plant, The vanilla-bean or its economic extract, The long podlike capsules of Vanilla planifolia, and Vanilla claviculata, remarkable for their delicate and agreeable odor, for the volatile, odoriferous oil extracted from them; also, the flavoring extract made from the capsules, extensively used in confectionery, perfumery, etc, adjective_ plain and without any extras or adornments, flavored with vanilla extract, Lacking adornments or special features; basic or ordinary

An abbreviation of variety (frequent in botany and zo”logy); of variant (so used in this work), a unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere, (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups, abbreviation_ programming variable, statistics variance