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Curate vs Accumulate - What's the difference?

curate | accumulate |

In lang=en terms the difference between curate and accumulate

is that curate is to work or act as a curator while accumulate is to grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.

As verbs the difference between curate and accumulate

is that curate is to act as a curator for while accumulate is to heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass.

As a noun curate

is an assistant rector or vicar.

As an adjective accumulate is

(poetic|rare) collected; accumulated.

curate

English

Etymology 1

From .

Noun

(en noun)
  • an assistant rector or vicar
  • a parish priest
  • Derived terms
    * curate's egg

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (curat)
  • To act as a curator for.
  • She curated the traveling exhibition.
    They carefully curated the recovered artifacts.
  • To apply selectivity and taste to, as a collection of fashion items or web pages.
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  • To work or act as a curator.
  • Not only does he curate for the museum, he manages the office and fund-raises.
    Derived terms
    * curated

    See also

    * ("curate" on Wikipedia)

    Anagrams

    * * English heteronyms ----

    accumulate

    English

    Verb

    (accumulat)
  • To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass.
  • He wishes to accumulate a sum of money.
  • 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. -
  • Synonyms

    * collect * pile up * store * amass * gather * aggregate * heap together * hoard * proliferate

    Adjective

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  • (poetic, rare) Collected; accumulated.