Accident vs Elephant - What's the difference?
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An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences.
* c.1603 , (William Shakespeare), , I-iii,
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(uncountable) Chance.
* c.1861-1863 , (Richard Chevenix Trench), in 1888, Letters and memorials , Volume 1,
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(transport, vehicle) An unintended event such as a collision that causes damage or death.
Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential.
* 1883 , , Social life in Greece from Homer to Menander? ,
(euphemistic) An instance of incontinence.
* 2009 , Marcia Stedron, My Roller Coaster Life as an Army Wife , Xlibris Corporation, ISBN 1462817890,
(euphemistic) An unintended pregnancy.
(philosophy, logic) A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness'', ''softness .
* 1902 , William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience , Folio Society 2008, page 171:
(grammar) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.
(geology) An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.
(heraldry) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
(legal) casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
(military) An unplanned event that results in injury (including death) or occupational illness to person(s) and/or damage to property, exclusive of injury and/or damage caused by action of an enemy or hostile force.
(uncountable, philosophy, uncommon) Appearance, manifestation.
* 14thC , (Geoffrey Chaucer), '' in ''(The Canterbury Tales) ,
* 1677 , Heraclitus Christianus: or, the Man of Sorrow , chapter 3, page 14:
* 1989 , Iysa A. Bello, The medieval Islamic controversy between philosophy and orthodoxy , page 55:
* 2005 , Muhammad Ali Khalidi, Medieval Islamic philosophical writings , page 175:
* 2010 , T. M. Rudavsky, Maimonides , page 142:
A mammal of the order Proboscidea , having a trunk, and two large ivory tusks jutting from the upper jaw.
(figuratively) Anything huge and ponderous.
(paper, printing) A printing-paper size measuring 30 inches x 22 inches.
(British, childish) used when counting to add length, so that each count takes about one second.
(obsolete) ivory
As nouns the difference between accident and elephant
is that accident is an unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences while elephant is elephant.accident
English
(wikipedia accident)Noun
- Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, / Of moving accidents by flood and field
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- Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident , / It is the very place God meant for thee;
- This accident , as I call it, of Athens being situated some miles from the sea, which is rather the consequence of its being a very ancient site,
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- We weren’t there long when Karin asked about our dog. When we told her Chris was in the car, she insisted we bring him up to the apartment. I rejected her offer and said he might have an accident on the carpet and I didn’t want to worry about it.
- If they went through their growth-crisis in other faiths and other countries, although the essence of the change would be the same, its accidents would be different.
- These cookes how they stamp, and strain, and grind, / And turne substance into accident , / To fulfill all thy likerous talent!
- But as to Man, all the Fruits of the Earth, all sorts of Herbs, Plants and Roots, the Fishes of the Sea, and the Birds of the Air do not suffice him, but he must disguise, vary, and sophisticate, change the substance into accident , that by such irritations as these, Nature might be provoked, and as it were necessitated.
- Nonetheless, those who have no evidence of the impossibility of the transformation of accident into substance believe that it is death itself which will be actually transformed into a ram on the Day of Resurrection and then be slaughtered.
- It would also follow that God ought to be able to transmute genera, converting substance into accident , knowledge into ability, black into white, and sound into smell, just as he can turn the inanimate into animate
- nor can God effect the transmutation of substances (from accident' into substance, or substance into '''accident''', or substance without ' accident ).
Synonyms
* (unexpected event that takes place without foresight or expectation) befalling, chance, contingency, casualty, mishap * (law) casusDerived terms
* accidental * accident of birth * by accident * freak accidentReferences
* Elisabetta Lonati, "Allas, the shorte throte, the tendre mouth": the sins of the mouth in ''The Canterbury Tales'', in ''Thou sittest at another boke , volume 3 (2008, ISSN 1974-0603), page 253: "the cooks "turnen substance into accident" (Pd 539), transform the raw material, its natural essence, into the outward aspect by which it is known." * Barbara Fass Leavy, To Blight With Plague: Studies in a Literary Theme (1993), page 47: *: To turn substance into accident is to give external form to what previously was unformed, to transform spirit into matter, to reduce eternal truths to their ephemeral physical manifestations.External links
* * * English words prefixed with ad- ----elephant
English
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(en noun)- Let's play hide and seek. I'll count. One elephant''', two '''elephant''', three '''elephant ...
- (Dryden)