Curate vs Accumulate - What's the difference?
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To act as a curator for.
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.
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.
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
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* curate's eggEtymology 2
Verb
(curat)- She curated the traveling exhibition.
- They carefully curated the recovered artifacts.
- Not only does he curate for the museum, he manages the office and fund-raises.
Derived terms
* curatedSee also
* ("curate" on Wikipedia)Anagrams
* * English heteronyms ----accumulate
English
Verb
(accumulat)- He wishes to accumulate a sum of money.