Tome vs. Volume — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Tome and Volume
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Tome
One of the books in a work of several volumes.
Volume
A collection of written or printed sheets bound together; a book.
Tome
A book, especially a large or scholarly one.
Volume
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.
Tome
A book, especially a large, heavy, scholarly one
A weighty tome
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Volume
One of the books of a work printed and bound in more than one book.
Tome
One in a series of volumes.
Volume
A series of issues of a periodical, usually covering one calendar year.
Tome
A large or scholarly book.
The professor pulled a dusty old tome from the bookshelf.
Volume
A unit of written material assembled together and cataloged in a library.
Tome
As many writings as are bound in a volume, forming part of a larger work; a book; - usually applied to a ponderous volume.
Tomes of fable and of dream.
A more childish expedient than that to which he now resorted is not to be found in all the tomes of the casuists.
Volume
A roll of parchment; a scroll.
Tome
A (usually) large and scholarly book
Volume
The amount of space occupied by a three-dimensional object or region of space, expressed in cubic units.
Volume
The capacity of such a region or of a specified container, expressed in cubic units.
Volume
Amount; quantity:a low volume of business; a considerable volume of lumber.
Volume
OftenvolumesA large amount:volumes of praise.
Volume
The amplitude or loudness of a sound.
Volume
A control, as on a radio, for adjusting amplitude or loudness.
Volume
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.
The room is 9x12x8, so its volume is 864 cubic feet.
The proper products can improve your hair's volume.
Volume
Strength of sound; loudness.
Please turn down the volume on the stereo.
Volume can be measured in decibels.
Volume
The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.
I looked at this week's copy of the magazine. It was volume 23, issue 45.
Volume
A bound book.
Volume
A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.
The letter "G" was found in volume 4.
Volume
A great amount (of meaning) about something.
Volume
(obsolete) A roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books.
Volume
Quantity.
The volume of ticket sales decreased this week.
Volume
A rounded mass or convolution.
Volume
(economics) The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
Volume
(computing) An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.
Volume
(bodybuilding) The total of weight worked by a muscle in one training session, the weight of every single repetition summed up.
Volume
(intransitive) To be conveyed through the air, waft.
Volume
(transitive) To cause to move through the air, waft.
Volume
(intransitive) To swell.
Volume
A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients.
The papyrus, and afterward the parchment, was joined together [by the ancients] to form one sheet, and then rolled upon a staff into a volume (volumen).
Volume
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.
An odd volume of a set of books bears not the value of its proportion to the set.
Volume
Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.
So glides some trodden serpent on the grass,And long behind wounded volume trails.
Undulating billows rolling their silver volumes.
Volume
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.
Volume
Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone.
Volume
The amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object;
The gas expanded to twice its original volume
Volume
The property of something that is great in magnitude;
It is cheaper to buy it in bulk
He received a mass of correspondence
The volume of exports
Volume
Physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together;
He used a large book as a doorstop
Volume
A publication that is one of a set of several similar publications;
The third volume was missing
He asked for the 1989 volume of the Annual Review
Volume
A relative amount;
Mix one volume of the solution with ten volumes of water
Volume
The magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction);
The kids played their music at full volume
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