Bill vs Value - What's the difference?
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Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.
* (rfdate), (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
* 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons .
A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
A pickaxe, or mattock.
(nautical) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.
The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a turtle, platypus, or other animal.
* 1595', The woosel cock so black of hue, With orange-tawny '''bill , The throstle with his note so true, The wren with little quill... — William Shakespeare, ''A Midsummer Night's Dream , Act III, Scene I, line 125.
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A beak-like projection, especially a promontory.
(obsolete) To peck.
To stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness.
* 1599 , As the ox hath his bow, sir, the horse his curb and the falcon her bells, so man hath his desires; and as pigeons bill, so wedlock would be nibbling.
A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc. )
A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc. )
A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
* 1600', Why, I'll exhibit a '''bill in the parliament for the putting down of men. — William Shakespeare, ''The Merry Wives of Windsor , Act II, Scene I, line 28.
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(obsolete, legal) A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.
(US) A piece of paper money; a banknote.
* 1830', Anon, ''The Galaxy of Wit: Or, Laughing Philosopher, Being a Collection of Choice Anecdotes, Many of Which Originated in or about "The Literary Emporium"'' — He gave the change for a three dollar '''bill'''. Upon examination, the ' bill proved to be counterfeit.
A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.
* 1607', My lord, here is my '''bill . — William Shakespeare, ''Timon of Athens , Act III, Scene IV, line 85.
A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods; a placard; a poster; a handbill.
* 1595', In the meantime I will draw a '''bill of properties, such as our play wants. — William Shakespeare, ''A Midsummer Night's Dream , Act I, Scene II, line 104.
* She put up the bill in her parlor window. — Dickens.
A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document. A bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.
* 1600 , Ay, and Rato-lorum too; and a gentleman born, Master Parson; who writes himself Armigero, in any bill, warrant, quittance, or obligation, Armigero. — William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor , Act I, Scene I, line 8.
The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.
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, title= The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
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, title= (music) The relative duration of a musical note.
(arts) The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
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Numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed.
Precise meaning; import.
(obsolete) Esteem; regard.
* Bishop Burnet
(obsolete) valour; also spelled valew
To estimate the value of; judge the worth of something.
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, title= To fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work.
To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon.
To hold dear.
As a noun bill
is car (motorcar, automobile).As a verb value is
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- France had no infantry that dared to face the English bows and bills .
- In the British Museum there is an entry of a warrant, granted to Nicholas Spicer, authorising him to impress smiths for making two thousand Welch bills or glaives.
- (Strype)
Synonyms
* (weapon) polearm * (cutting instrument) billhook, hand bill, hedge bill * (somebody armed with a bill) billmanDerived terms
* brown-billEtymology 2
(etyl) (m), of unknown origin.Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (beak of a bird) beak, neb, nib, peckerDerived terms
* duckbillVerb
(en verb)Etymology 3
(etyl) . Compare bull.Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=David Cameron insists that his latest communications data bill is “vital to counter terrorism”. Yet terror is mayhem. It is no threat to freedom. That threat is from counter-terror, from ministers capitulating to securocrats.}}
Synonyms
* (account of goods) account, invoice * (written or printed advertisement posted or otherwise distributed) broadsheet, broadside, card,circular, flier, flyer, handbill, poster, posting, placard, notice, throwaway * (draft of a law) measure * (writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day) bank bill, banker's bill, bank note, banknote, Federal Reserve note, government note, greenback, noteDerived terms
* bill of adventure * bill of costs * bill of credit * bill of divorce * bill of entry * bill of exceptions * bill of exchange * bill of fare * bill of goods * bill of health * bill of indictment * bill of lading * bill of mortality * bill of pains and penalties * bill of parcels * bill of particulars * bill of rights * bill of sale * bill of sight * bill of store * bill of sufferance * bills payable * bills receivable * * Treasury bill * T-bill * true billSee also
* (l)Synonyms
* (to advertise by a bill) placard * (to charge) chargeEtymology 4
value
English
Noun
(en noun)Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd, passage=United were value for their win and Rooney could have had a hat-trick before half-time, with Paul Scholes also striking the post in the second half.}}
Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.}}
- 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 .
- His design was not to pay him the value of his pictures, because they were above any price.
Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
- I establish the colors and principal values by organizing the painting into three values--dark, mediumand light.
- the value''' of a word; the '''value of a legal instrument
- (Mitford)
- (Dryden)
- My relation to the person was so near, and my value for him so great.
- (Spenser)
Synonyms
* (quality that renders something desirable) worthDerived terms
* valuable * valueless * valueness * economic value * face value * note value * par value * time valueVerb
(valu)Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.