Volume vs. Book — What's the Difference?

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.

A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is codex (plural, codices).

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

A written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers

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

A bound set of blank sheets for writing in

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

A set of tickets, stamps, matches, samples of cloth, etc., bound together

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

Reserve (accommodation, a place, etc.); buy (a ticket) in advance

A roll of parchment; a scroll.

Make an official note of the personal details of (a person who has broken a law or rule)

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

Leave suddenly

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

A set of written, printed, or blank pages fastened along one side and encased between protective covers.

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

An e-book or other electronic resource structured like a book.

OftenvolumesA large amount:volumes of praise.

A printed or written literary work

The amplitude or loudness of a sound.

A main division of a larger printed or written work

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

A volume in which financial or business transactions are recorded.

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.

Books Financial or business records considered as a group

Strength of sound; loudness.

A libretto.

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

The script of a play.

A bound book.

The Bible.

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

The Koran.

A great amount (of meaning) about something.

A set of prescribed standards or rules on which decisions are based

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

Something regarded as a source of knowledge or understanding.

Quantity.

The total amount of experience, knowledge, understanding, and skill that can be used in solving a problem or performing a task

A rounded mass or convolution.

(Informal) Factual information, especially of a private nature

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

A pack of like or similar items bound together

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

A record of bets placed on a race.

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

(Games) The number of card tricks needed before any tricks can have scoring value, as the first six tricks taken by the declaring side in bridge.

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

To arrange for or purchase (tickets or lodgings, for example) in advance; reserve.

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

To arrange a reservation, as for a hotel room, for (someone)

(intransitive) To swell.

To hire or engage

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

To list or register in a book

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.

To list or record appointments or engagements in

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

To record information about (a suspected offender) after arrest in preparation for arraignment, usually including a criminal history search, fingerprinting, and photographing.

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.

(Sports) To record the flagrant fouls of (a player) for possible disciplinary action, as in soccer.

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

To designate a time for; schedule

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

To be hired for or engaged in

The property of something that is great in magnitude;

To make a reservation

Physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together;

(Informal) To move or travel rapidly

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

Of or relating to knowledge learned from books rather than actual experience

A relative amount;

Appearing in a company's financial records

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

A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.

A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book.

A major division of a long work.

(gambling) A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).

(informal) A bookmaker (a person who takes bets on sporting events and similar); bookie; turf accountant.

A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.

(theatre) The script of a musical or opera.

Records of the accounts of a business.

A book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).

(whist) Six tricks taken by one side.

(poker slang) Four of a kind.

(sports) A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.

A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.

(cartomancy) The twenty-sixth Lenormand card.

(figurative) Any source of instruction.

(with "the") The accumulated body of knowledge passed down among black pimps.

A portfolio of one's previous work in the industry.

(transitive) To reserve (something) for future use.

(transitive) To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.

(transitive) To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.

To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.

(sports) To issue a caution to, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.

To travel very fast.

To record bets as bookmaker.

To receive the highest grade in a class.

To leave.

A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing.

A composition, written or printed; a treatise.

A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as, the tenth book of "Paradise Lost."

A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc.; - often used in the plural; as, they got a subpoena to examine our books.

Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of bridge or whist, being the minimum number of tricks that must be taken before any additional tricks are counted as part of the score for that hand; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set.

A written version of a play or other dramatic composition; - used in preparing for a performance.

A set of paper objects (tickets, stamps, matches, checks etc.) bound together by one edge, like a book; as, he bought a book of stamps.

A book or list, actual or hypothetical, containing records of the best performances in some endeavor; a recordbook; - used in the phrase one for the book or one for the books.

The set of facts about an athlete's performance, such as typical performance or playing habits or methods, that are accumulated by potential opponents as an aid in deciding how best to compete against that athlete; as, the book on Ted Williams suggests pitching to him low and outside.

Same as book value.

The list of current buy and sell orders maintained by a stock market specialist.

The purchase orders still outstanding and unfilled on a company's ledger; as, book to bill ratio.

To enter, write, or register in a book or list.

To enter the name of (any one) in a book for the purpose of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat; to reserve{2}; also, to make an arrangement for a reservation; as, to be booked for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater; to book a reservation at a restaurant.

To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is booked for the valedictory.

To make an official record of a charge against (a suspect in a crime); - performed by police.

A written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together);

Physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together;

A record in which commercial accounts are recorded;

A number of sheets (ticket or stamps etc.) bound together on one edge;

A compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone;

A major division of a long written composition;

A written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance

A collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made;

The sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca and Medina

The sacred writings of the Christian religions;

Record a charge in a police register;

Arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance;

Engage for a performance;

Register in a hotel booker