Bruise vs Acc - What's the difference?
bruise | acc |
To strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such a way as to discolour the skin without breaking it.
To damage the skin of (fruit), in an analogous way.
Of fruit, to gain bruises through being handled roughly.
To become bruised.
To fight with the fists; to box.
* Thackeray
(medicine) A purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that have been damaged by a blow.
A dark mark on fruit caused by a blow to its surface.
Association of Corporate Counsel
American Chemistry Council
Air Coordinating Committee
(New Zealand) Accident Compensation Corporation
(New Zealand, by extension) The government accident compensation scheme in New Zealand, administered by the Accident Compensation Corporation.
(internet, slang) author-created character , referring to the practice of creating a new character wholesale who is added into a fanfic's cast of 'official' characters. (The characters created by the official original creator are not considered ACC.) The practice is generally discouraged unless the character plays a small role and never overtakes the existing characters' importance in a story; those that do are often accused of being "Mary Sues" or "Self Inserts".
(automotive) Adaptive cruise control (See Wikipedia entry on (Autonomous cruise control system))
(wikipedia ACC)
As a verb bruise
is to strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such a way as to discolour the skin without breaking it.As a noun bruise
is (medicine) a purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that have been damaged by a blow.As an initialism acc is
association of corporate counsel.bruise
English
(wikipedia bruise)Alternative forms
* bruize (obsolete)Verb
(bruis)- Bananas bruise easily.
- I bruise easily.
- Bruising was considered a fine, manly, old English custom.