Bo vs Accelerate - What's the difference?
bo | accelerate |
(US, slang) Fellow, chap, boy.
* 1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010, p. 255:
(label) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
(label) To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
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(label) To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
(label) To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
(label) Grow; increase.
(label)
(rare) Accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.
* 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems , Dialogue 2:
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English ergative verbs
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As a noun bo
is old manservant.As a verb accelerate is
(label) to cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.As an adjective accelerate is
(rare) accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.bo
English
Etymology 1
Imitative.Alternative forms
* boh * booEtymology 2
Probably a shortening of (m).Noun
Etymology 3
From (etyl) ).Anagrams
* English two-letter words ----accelerate
English
Verb
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Synonyms
* advance * dispatch * expedite * forward * further * hasten * quicken * speed upAntonyms
* decelerate * retardDerived terms
* accelerative * accelerator * accelerated motion * accelerating forceAdjective
- ... a general knowledg of the definition of motion, and of the distinction of natural and violent, even and accelerate , and the like, sufficing.