volume vs crescendo

volume and crescendo both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
volume	Yes	No	No	No
crescendo	Yes	Yes	Yes	No

As nouns, crescendo is a hyponym of volume; that is, crescendo is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than volume:

Other hyponyms of volume include thunderousness.

volume (noun)	crescendo (noun)
physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together	(music) a gradual increase in loudness
the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction)
the property of something that is great in magnitude
a publication that is one of a set of several similar publications
the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object
a relative amount

volume (adjective)	crescendo (adjective)
	(music) gradually increasing in volume

volume (verb)	crescendo (verb)
	grow louder