Accelerate vs Journey - What's the difference?
accelerate | journey | Related terms |
(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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A set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.
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, title= (label) A day.
(label) A day's travelling; the distance travelled in a day.
(label) A day's work.
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Accelerate is a related term of journey.
As verbs the difference between accelerate and journey
is that accelerate is (label) to cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of while journey is to travel, to make a trip or voyage.As an adjective accelerate
is (rare) accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.As a noun journey is
a set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.accelerate
English
Verb
(accelerat)Michael Sivak
Will AC Put a Chill on the Global Energy Supply?, passage=Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent, with the consequences of climate change potentially accelerating the demand.}}
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
journey
English
(wikipedia journey)Noun
(en noun)Well-connected Brains, passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.}}