Flask vs. Volume — What's the Difference?

A container for liquids.

Volume is the quantity of three-dimensional space enclosed by a closed surface, for example, the space that a substance (solid, liquid, gas, or plasma) or 3D shape occupies or contains. Volume is often quantified numerically using the SI derived unit, the cubic metre.

An extremely strong lead-lined container for transporting or storing radioactive nuclear waste.

A collection of written or printed sheets bound together; a book.

Short for powder flask

One of the books of a work printed and bound in more than one book.

A flat, relatively thin container for liquor.

A series of issues of a periodical, usually covering one calendar year.

A container or case for carrying gunpowder or shot.

A unit of written material assembled together and cataloged in a library.

A vial or round long-necked vessel for laboratory use.

A roll of parchment; a scroll.

A frame for holding a sand mold in a foundry.

The amount of space occupied by a three-dimensional object or region of space, expressed in cubic units.

A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.

The capacity of such a region or of a specified container, expressed in cubic units.

A container used to discreetly carry a small amount of a hard alcoholic beverage; a pocket flask.

Amount; quantity:a low volume of business; a considerable volume of lumber.

(sciences) Laboratory glassware used to hold larger volumes than test tubes, normally having a narrow mouth of a standard size which widens to a flat or spherical base.

OftenvolumesA large amount:volumes of praise.

(engineering) A container for holding a casting mold, especially for sand casting molds.

The amplitude or loudness of a sound.

A bed in a gun carriage.

A control, as on a radio, for adjusting amplitude or loudness.

(dentistry) To invest a denture in a flask so as to produce a sectional mold.

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.

A small bottle-shaped vessel for holding fluids; as, a flask of oil or wine.

Strength of sound; loudness.

A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.

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

A bed in a gun carriage.

A bound book.

The wooden or iron frame which holds the sand, etc., forming the mold used in a foundry; it consists of two or more parts; viz., the cope or top; sometimes, the cheeks, or middle part; and the drag, or bottom part. When there are one or more cheeks, the flask is called a three part flask, four part flask, etc.

A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.

Bottle that has a narrow neck

A great amount (of meaning) about something.

The quantity a flask will hold

(obsolete) A roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books.

Quantity.

A rounded mass or convolution.

(economics) The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.

(computing) An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.

(bodybuilding) The total of weight worked by a muscle in one training session, the weight of every single repetition summed up.

(intransitive) To be conveyed through the air, waft.

(transitive) To cause to move through the air, waft.

(intransitive) To swell.

A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients.

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.

Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.

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.

Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone.

The amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object;

The property of something that is great in magnitude;

Physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together;

A publication that is one of a set of several similar publications;

A relative amount;

The magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction);