Accumulate vs Cumulative - What's the difference?
accumulate | cumulative |
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.
Incorporating all data up to the present
That is formed by accumulation of successive additions
* Francis Bacon
* Trench
That tends to accumulate
(finance) Having priority rights to receive a dividend that accrue until paid
As adjectives the difference between accumulate and cumulative
is that accumulate is collected; accumulated while cumulative is incorporating all data up to the present.As a verb accumulate
is to heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass.accumulate
English
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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* * ----cumulative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- As for knowledge which man receiveth by teaching, it is cumulative , not original.
- The argument is in very truth not logical and single, but moral and cumulative .
