ADJ
- total
- the total volume of the containers
PREP
- by ~
- They sell screws and nails by volume
- in ~
- 2 litres in volume
ADJ
- sheer
- The sheer volume of fiction produced is staggering
- considerable, enormous, great, heavy, high, huge, large, substantial, vast
- small
VERB + VOLUME
- increase
- decrease, reduce
- double/grow//increase/rise in
- Sales have doubled in volume
- decrease/fall in
VOLUME + VERB
- double, increase, rise
- Sales volume has doubled since 1999
- decrease, fall
VERB + VOLUME
- increase, turn up
- decrease, turn down
- grow/increase/rise in
- decrease/fall in
VOLUME + NOUN
- control
- the volume control on the television
PREP
- at … ~
- The car stereo was on at full volume
ADJ
- bound, leather-bound
- a library full of bound volumes
- companion
- a companion volume to the one on African wildlife
- rare
- Only a specialist shop would have this rare volume
- bulky, massive, substantial, thick, weighty
- compact, slim
- glossy
- a forty-page, glossy volume about the company's products
- dusty
- old
- single
- separate
PREP
- in a/the ~
- Her poems are now available in a single volume
- ~ of
- a volume of short stories
- ~ on
- a volume on ancient history
PHRASES
- run to five, several, etc. volumes
- The encyclopedia is a huge work, running to 20 volumes