Value vs. Care — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Value and Care
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Value
An amount, as of goods, services, or money, considered to be a fair and suitable equivalent for something else; a fair price or return.
Care
A concerned or troubled state of mind, as that arising from serious responsibility; worry.
Value
Monetary or material worth
The fluctuating value of gold and silver.
Care
An object or source of worry, attention, or solicitude
The many cares of a working parent.
Value
Worth in usefulness or importance to the possessor; utility or merit
The value of an education.
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Care
Interest, regard, or liking
Did not show the least care for her.
Value
Often values A principle or standard, as of behavior, that is considered important or desirable
"The speech was a summons back to the patrician values of restraint and responsibility" (Jonathan Alter).
Care
Close attention, as in doing something well or avoiding harm
Painted the trim with care.
Value
Precise meaning or import, as of a word.
Care
Upkeep; maintenance
A product for the care of fine floors.
Hair care products.
Value
(Mathematics) A quantity or number expressed by an algebraic term.
Care
Watchful oversight; charge or supervision
Left the child in the care of a neighbor.
Value
(Music) The relative duration of a tone or rest.
Care
Attentive assistance or treatment to those in need
A hospital that provides emergency care.
Value
The relative darkness or lightness of a color. See Table at color.
Care
To be concerned or interested
Once inside, we didn't care whether it rained or not.
Value
(Linguistics) The sound quality of a letter or diphthong.
Care
To provide needed assistance or watchful supervision
Cared for the wounded.
Caring for an aged relative at home.
Value
One of a series of specified values
Issued a stamp of new value.
Care
To object or mind
If no one cares, I'll smoke.
Value
To determine or estimate the worth or value of; appraise.
Care
To have a liking or attachment
Didn't care for the movie.
Value
To regard highly; esteem
I value your advice.
Care
To have a wish; be inclined
Would you care for another helping?.
Value
To rate according to relative estimate of worth or desirability; evaluate
Valued health above money.
Care
To wish; desire
Would you care to dance?.
Value
To assign a value to (a unit of currency, for example).
Care
To be concerned to the degree of
I don't care a bit what critics think.
Value
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.
Care
(obsolete) Grief, sorrow. 19
Value
Relating to or consisting of principles or standards
A value system.
Care
Close attention; concern; responsibility.
Care should be taken when holding babies.
Value
The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.
The Shakespearean Shylock is of dubious value in the modern world.
Care
Worry.
I don't have a care in the world.
Value
(uncountable) The degree of importance given to something.
The value of my children's happiness is second only to that of my wife.
Care
Maintenance, upkeep.
Dental care
Value
That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system.
He does not share his parents' values.
Family values
Care
The treatment of those in need (especially as a profession).
Value
The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
Care
The state of being cared for by others.
In care
Value
(music) The relative duration of a musical note.
The value of a crotchet is twice that of a quaver.
Care
The object of watchful attention or anxiety.
Value
(arts) The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
Care
To be concerned (about), to have an interest (in); to feel concern (about).
"She doesn't care what you think." "I don't care, I'm still going."
Value
Any definite numerical quantity or other mathematical object, determined by being measured, computed, or otherwise defined.
The exact value of pi cannot be represented in decimal notation.
Care
To want, to desire; to like; to be inclined towards.
Would you care for another slice of cake?
Would you care to dance?
I don't care to hear your opinion.
Value
Precise meaning; import.
The value of a word; the value of a legal instrument
Care
For it to matter to, or make any difference to.
Value
(in the plural) The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treating a mass or compound; specifically, the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, etc.
The vein carries good values.
The values on the hanging walls
Care
(intransitive) (with for) To look after or look out for.
Young children can learn to care for a pet.
He cared for his mother while she was sick.
Value
(obsolete) Esteem; regard.
Care
To mind; to object.
Value
(obsolete) Valour; also spelled valew.
Care
A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.
Value
To estimate the value of; judge the worth of something.
I will have the family jewels valued by a professional.
Care
Charge, oversight, or management, implying responsibility for safety and prosperity.
The care of all the churches.
Him thy care must be to find.
Perplexed with a thousand cares.
Value
To fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work.
Care
Attention or heed; caution; regard; heedfulness; watchfulness; as, take care; have a care.
I thank thee for thy care and honest pains.
Value
To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon.
Gold was valued highly among the Romans.
Care
The object of watchful attention or anxiety.
Right sorrowfully mourning her bereaved cares.
Value
To hold dear.
I value these old photographs.
Care
To be anxious or solicitous; to be concerned; to have regard or interest; - sometimes followed by an objective of measure.
I would not care a pin, if the other three were in.
Master, carest thou not that we perish?
He cared not for the affection of the house.
Value
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.
Ye are all physicians of no value.
Ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Cæsar is well acquainted with your virtue,And therefore sets this value on your life.
Before events shall have decided on the value of the measures.
Care
The work of caring for or attending to someone or something;
No medical care was required
The old car needed constant attention
Value
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.
An article may be possessed of the highest degree of utility, or power to minister to our wants and enjoyments, and may be universally made use of, without possessing exchangeable value.
Value is the power to command commodities generally.
Value is the generic term which expresses power in exchange.
His design was not to pay him the value of his pictures, because they were above any price.
Care
Judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger;
He exercised caution in opening the door
He handled the vase with care
Value
Precise signification; import; as, the value of a word; the value of a legal instrument
Care
An anxious feeling;
Care had aged him
They hushed it up out of fear of public reaction
Value
Esteem; regard.
My relation to the person was so near, and my value for him so great
Care
A cause for feeling concern;
His major care was the illness of his wife
Value
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 [ ].
Care
Attention and management implying responsibility for safety;
He is in the care of a bodyguard
Value
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; as, the values are well given, or well maintained.
Care
Activity involved in maintaining something in good working order;
He wrote the manual on car care
Value
Valor.
Care
Feel concern or interest;
I really care about my work
I don't care
Value
That property of a color by which it is distinguished as bright or dark; luminosity.
Care
Provide care for;
The nurse was caring for the wounded
Value
Any particular quantitative determination; as, a function's value for some special value of its argument.
Care
Prefer or wish to do something;
Do you care to try this dish?
Would you like to come along to the movies?
Value
The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treatment from any mass or compound; specif., the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, or the like; as, the vein carries good values; the values on the hanging walls.
Care
Be in charge of, act on, or dispose of;
I can deal with this crew of workers
This blender can't handle nuts
She managed her parents' affairs after they got too old
Value
To estimate the value, or worth, of; to rate at a certain price; to appraise; to reckon with respect to number, power, importance, etc.
The mind doth value every moment.
The queen is valued thirty thousand strong.
The king must take it ill,That he's so slightly valued in his messenger.
Neither of them valued their promises according to rules of honor or integrity.
Care
Be concerned with;
I worry about my grades
Value
To rate highly; to have in high esteem; to hold in respect and estimation; to appreciate; to prize; as, to value one for his works or his virtues.
Which of the dukes he values most.
Value
To raise to estimation; to cause to have value, either real or apparent; to enhance in value.
Some value themselves to their country by jealousies of the crown.
Value
To be worth; to be equal to in value.
The peace between the French and us not valuesThe cost that did conclude it.
Value
A numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed;
The value assigned was 16 milliseconds
Value
The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable;
The Shakespearean Shylock is of dubious value in the modern world
Value
The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else;
He tried to estimate the value of the produce at normal prices
Value
Relative darkness or lightness of a color;
I establish the colors and principal values by organizing the painting into three values--dark, medium...and light
Value
(music) the relative duration of a musical note
Value
An ideal accepted by some individual or group;
He has old-fashioned values
Value
Fix or determine the value of; assign a value to;
Value the jewelry and art work in the estate
Value
Hold dear;
I prize these old photographs
Value
Regard highly; think much of;
I respect his judgement
We prize his creativity
Value
Place a value on; judge the worth of something;
I will have the family jewels appraised by a professional
Value
Estimate the value of;
How would you rate his chances to become President?
Gold was rated highly among the Romans
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