Value vs Identity - What's the difference?
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The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.
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, title= The degree of importance given to something.
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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.
* Joe Hing Lowe
Numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed.
Precise meaning; import.
(obsolete) Esteem; regard.
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(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.
Sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.
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The difference or character that marks off an individual from the rest of the same kind, selfhood.
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A name or persona—the mask or appearance one presents to the world—by which one is known.
Sense of who one is.
(algebra, computing) Any function which maps all elements of its domain to themselves.
(algebra) An element of an algebraic structure which, when applied to another element under an operation in that structure, yields this, second element.
As a verb value
is .As a noun identity is
sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.value
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Noun
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- 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
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- My relation to the person was so near, and my value for him so great.
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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.
Synonyms
* appreciate * assess * esteem * prise, prize * rate * respect * treasure * valuate * worthenAntonyms
* disesteem * disrespectSee also
* value systemStatistics
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(wikipedia identity)Noun
(identities)- This criminal has taken on several identities .
- I've been through so many changes, I have no sense of identity .
- This nation has a strong identity .