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accredit | belong |

As a verb accredit

is to ascribe; attribute; credit with.

As an adjective belong is

oblong.

accredit

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To ascribe; attribute; credit with.
  • To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.
  • * (rfdate)
    • His censure will ... accredit his praises.
  • * (rfdate)
    • These reasons ... which accredit and fortify mine opinion.
  • To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate.
  • * (rfdate)
    • Beton ... was accredited to the Court of France. -
  • To believe; to put trust in.
  • * (rfdate)
    • The version of early Roman history which was accredited in the fifth century.
  • * (rfdate)
    • He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions and witchcraft.
  • To enter on the credit side of an account book.
  • To certify as meeting a predetermined standard; to certify an educational institution as upholding the specified standards necessary for the students to advance.
    • The school was an accredited college.
  • To recognize as outstanding.
  • (literally) To credit.

    • Derived terms

    * accredit with * accreditation * accredited

    belong

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) belongen, from .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To have its proper place.
  • # (label) To be accepted in a group.
  • # To be a part of a group.
  • To be part of, or the property of.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
    • , chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared.}}
  • To be the spouse or partner of. (rfex)
  • (followed by'' to''') To be an element of (a set). The symbol \in means '''''belongs to .
  • To be deserved by.
  • * (rfdate) (Ben Jonson)
    • More evils belong us than happen to us.
    Derived terms
    * belonging * belongingness

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    Etymology 2

    Compare Kriol blanga'', Bislama ''blong'', Tok Pisin ''bilong'', and Torres Strait Creole ''blong .

    Alternative forms

    * blung * , belonga, blonga

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Of, belonging to.
  • * 1915, E. R. Masson, Untamed Territory
    • Jim Campbell, Charlie, Dick, ... Fred, lubra b’longa him, me, thass all.
  • * 1936, M. & E. Durack, Chunuma
    • By an’ bye ’im grow ’m up make ’m good fella stockman b’longta you.
  • * 1977, N. Kolig, Playing Alonga Mud
    • Those who had persevered with the course and had acquired some skill were now almost deferentially called ‘Maban (expert) belonga clay’.
  • * 1986, Kowanyama News, Dec.
    • Them two bin help’m too, and that father blung to this one old Frank.
  • * 1986, B. Shaw, Countrymen
    • There’s the bloke that’s kill that feller, uncle belong you an me.
  • * 1991, D. B. Rose, Hidden Histories
    • Get that fire [wood] stacked up like that tree there, that high ... It wasn’t wood belong to that fire pile. Might be for station, or somebody else, you know.