Observe vs Value - What's the difference?
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(lb) To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
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*1892 , (Arthur Conan Doyle),
*:“One horse?” interjected Holmes. ¶ “Yes, only one.” ¶ “Did you observe the colour?”
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-03, author=Frank Fish, George Lauder
, volume=101, issue=2, page=114, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= (lb) To follow or obey the custom, practice, or rules (especially of a religion).
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*Bible, (w)
*:Ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread.
*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=November 10, author=Jeremy Wilson, work=Telegraph
, title= (lb) To comment on something; to make an observation.
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*:Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ ("I never) understood it," she observed , lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 13, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport
, title= The degree of importance given to something.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
* M'Culloch
* Dryden
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, 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.
* Joe Hing Lowe
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.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, 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.
Observe is a related term of value.
As verbs the difference between observe and value
is that observe is while value is .observe
English
Verb
(observ)Not Just Going with the Flow, passage=An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex . The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.}}
England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report, passage=A sell-out crowd of 10,000 then observed perfectly a period of silence before the team revealed their black armbands, complete with stitched-in poppies, for the match. After Fifa’s about-turn, it must have been a frantic few days for the England kit manufacturer. The on-field challenge was altogether more straightforward. }}
Synonyms
* (follow a custom) celebrateDerived terms
* observance * observant * observation * observational * observatory * observerExternal links
* *Anagrams
* * English reporting verbs ----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.
