Accelerate vs Boots - What's the difference?
accelerate | boots |
(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:
(sports) The sports shoes worn by players of certain games such as cricket and football.
(dated) A servant at a hotel etc. who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes. (takes a singular verb)
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(Jamaica, slang, plurale tantum) A condom.Ras Dennis Jabari Reynolds, Jabari: Authentic Jamaican Dictionary of the Jamic Language , Around the Way Books (2006), ISBN 0975534254,
* 1980 , in 1983):
(boot)
As a verb accelerate
is (label) to cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.As an adjective accelerate
is (rare) accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.As a noun boots is
.accelerate
English
Verb
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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.
boots
English
Noun
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- I said throw away the boots , I want my little youth