| chapter | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. chapter | a subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled.; "he read a chapter every night before falling asleep" |
| ~ text, textual matter | the words of something written.; "there were more than a thousand words of text"; "they handed out the printed text of the mayor's speech"; "he wants to reconstruct the original text" |
| ~ section, subdivision | a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical).; "he always turns first to the business section"; "the history of this work is discussed in the next section" |
| n. (time) | 2. chapter | any distinct period in history or in a person's life.; "the industrial revolution opened a new chapter in British history"; "the divorce was an ugly chapter in their relationship" |
| ~ phase, stage | any distinct time period in a sequence of events.; "we are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected" |
| n. (group) | 3. chapter | a local branch of some fraternity or association.; "he joined the Atlanta chapter" |
| ~ association | a formal organization of people or groups of people.; "he joined the Modern Language Association" |
| ~ gild, guild, social club, club, lodge, society, order | a formal association of people with similar interests.; "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today" |
| ~ frat, fraternity | a social club for male undergraduates. |
| n. (group) | 4. chapter | an ecclesiastical assembly of the monks in a monastery or even of the canons of a church. |
| ~ assembly | a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose. |
| n. (event) | 5. chapter | a series of related events forming an episode.; "a chapter of disasters" |
| ~ episode | a happening that is distinctive in a series of related events. |
| volume | | |
| n. (quantity) | 1. volume | the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object.; "the gas expanded to twice its original volume" |
| ~ quantity, measure, amount | how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify. |
| ~ capacity measure, capacity unit, cubage unit, cubature unit, cubic content unit, cubic measure, displacement unit, volume unit | a unit of measurement of volume or capacity. |
| ~ capacity, content | the amount that can be contained.; "the gas tank has a capacity of 12 gallons" |
| n. (attribute) | 2. bulk, mass, volume | the property of something that is great in magnitude.; "it is cheaper to buy it in bulk"; "he received a mass of correspondence"; "the volume of exports" |
| ~ magnitude | the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small).; "they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion"; "about the magnitude of a small pea" |
| ~ dollar volume, turnover | the volume measured in dollars.; "the store's dollar volume continues to rise" |
| n. (artifact) | 3. book, volume | physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together.; "he used a large book as a doorstop" |
| ~ album | a book of blank pages with pockets or envelopes; for organizing photographs or stamp collections etc. |
| ~ book binding, cover, binding, back | the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book.; "the book had a leather binding" |
| ~ coffee-table book | an elaborate oversize book suitable for displaying on a coffee table. |
| ~ folio | a book (or manuscript) consisting of large sheets of paper folded in the middle to make two leaves or four pages.; "the first folio of Shakespeare's plays" |
| ~ fore edge, foredge | the part of a book that faces inward when the book is shelved; the part opposite the spine. |
| ~ hardback, hardcover | a book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers. |
| ~ journal | a record book as a physical object. |
| ~ novel | a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction.; "his bookcases were filled with nothing but novels"; "he burned all the novels" |
| ~ order book | a book in which customers' orders are entered; usually makes multiple copies of the order. |
| ~ paper-back book, paperback, paperback book, soft-cover, soft-cover book, softback, softback book | a book with paper covers. |
| ~ picture book | a book consisting chiefly of pictures. |
| ~ product, production | an artifact that has been created by someone or some process.; "they improve their product every year"; "they export most of their agricultural production" |
| ~ sketch block, sketch pad, sketchbook | a book containing sheets of paper on which sketches can be drawn. |
| ~ backbone, spine | the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved.; "the title and author were printed on the spine of the book" |
| ~ notebook | a book with blank pages for recording notes or memoranda. |
| n. (communication) | 4. volume | a publication that is one of a set of several similar publications.; "the third volume was missing"; "he asked for the 1989 volume of the Annual Review" |
| ~ publication | a copy of a printed work offered for distribution. |
| ~ set | a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used.; "a set of books"; "a set of golf clubs"; "a set of teeth" |
| n. (quantity) | 5. volume | a relative amount.; "mix one volume of the solution with ten volumes of water" |
| ~ quantity, measure, amount | how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify. |
| n. (attribute) | 6. intensity, loudness, volume | the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction).; "the kids played their music at full volume" |
| ~ sound property | an attribute of sound. |
| ~ crescendo | (music) a gradual increase in loudness. |
| ~ fortissimo, forte | (music) loud. |
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