Accumulate vs Culminate - What's the difference?
accumulate | culminate |
To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass.
To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.
* Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates , and men decay. -
(poetic, rare) Collected; accumulated.
(astronomy) Of a heavenly body, to be at the highest point, reach its greatest altitude.
To reach the (physical) summit, highest point, peak etc.
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To reach a climax; to come to the decisive point (especially as an end or conclusion).
To finalize, bring to a conclusion, form the climax of.
* 2010 , "By the skin of her teeth", The Economist , 7 Sep 2010:
In transitive terms the difference between accumulate and culminate
is that accumulate is to heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass while culminate is to finalize, bring to a conclusion, form the climax of.In intransitive terms the difference between accumulate and culminate
is that accumulate is to grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly while culminate is to reach a climax; to come to the decisive point (especially as an end or conclusion).As an adjective accumulate
is collected; accumulated.accumulate
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Verb
(accumulat)- He wishes to accumulate a sum of money.
Synonyms
* collect * pile up * store * amass * gather * aggregate * heap together * hoard * proliferateAdjective
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Verb
(culminat)- As when his beams at noon / Culminate from the equator.
- The reptile race culminated in the secondary era.
- The house of Burgundy was rapidly culminating .
- Their messy breakup culminated in a restraining order.
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New York Times
Mr. Bush has been marking the fifth anniversary of Sept. 11 with a series of speeches about terrorism that culminated with his televised address last night.
- The class will culminate with a rigorous examination.
- The announcement by Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott in Canberra culminated more than a fortnight of intensive political horse-trading.