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Accelerated vs Maneuver - What's the difference?

accelerated | maneuver |

As verbs the difference between accelerated and maneuver

is that accelerated is (accelerate) while maneuver is to move (something) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position.

As an adjective accelerated

is moving or progressing faster than is usual.

As a noun maneuver is

a movement, often one performed with difficulty.

accelerated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (accelerate)
  • Adjective

  • Moving or progressing faster than is usual.
  • *
  • Happening sooner than expected.
  • *
  • maneuver

    English

    Alternative forms

    * manoeuvre (Commonwealth) * maneuvre, manoeuver (nonstandard) *

    Noun

  • (en noun) (American spelling)
  • A movement, often one performed with difficulty.
  • Parallel parking can be a difficult maneuver .
  • (often, in the plural) A large training field-exercise of military troops.
  • The army was on maneuvers .
    Joint NATO maneuvers are as much an exercise in diplomacy as in tactics and logistics.
  • An adroit or cunning action; a stratagem.
  • Verb

    (en-verb) (American spelling)
  • To move (something) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position.
  • (figurative) To guide, steer, manage purposefully
  • (figurative) To intrigue, manipulate, plot, scheme
  • :: ''The patriarch maneuvered till his offspring occupied countless key posts