Novel vs Volume - What's the difference?
novel | volume |
(obsolete) A novelty; something new.
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A work of prose fiction, longer than a short story.
(classical studies, historical) A new legal constitution in ancient Rome.
A unit of 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.
Strength of sound. Measured in decibels.
The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.
A book.
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A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.
Quantity.
(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.
As a verb novel
is to increase (to make larger).As a noun volume is
a unit of 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.novel
English
(wikipedia novel)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Usage notes
* Said of ideas, ways, etc.Synonyms
* See alsoEtymology 2
In various senses from (etyl) novelle or (etyl) novella, both from (etyl) novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of novellus, from . Some senses came to English directly from the Latin. (etystub)Noun
(en noun)- merry talessuch as the old woman told of Psyche in Apuleius, Boccace novels , and the rest, quarum auditione pueri delectantur, senes narratione , which some delight to hear, some to tell, all are well pleased with.