Accelerate vs Accumulate - What's the difference?
accelerate | accumulate |
(label) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
(label) To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
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(label) To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
(label) To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
(label) Grow; increase.
(label)
(rare) Accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.
* 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems , Dialogue 2:
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English ergative verbs
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To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass.
To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.
* Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates , and men decay. -
(poetic, rare) Collected; accumulated.
In transitive terms the difference between accelerate and accumulate
is that accelerate is to hasten, as the occurrence of an event while accumulate is to heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass.In intransitive terms the difference between accelerate and accumulate
is that accelerate is grow; increase while accumulate is to grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.accelerate
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Synonyms
* advance * dispatch * expedite * forward * further * hasten * quicken * speed upAntonyms
* decelerate * retardDerived terms
* accelerative * accelerator * accelerated motion * accelerating forceAdjective
- ... a general knowledg of the definition of motion, and of the distinction of natural and violent, even and accelerate , and the like, sufficing.
References
accumulate
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Verb
(accumulat)- He wishes to accumulate a sum of money.
