Accelerate vs Fasten - What's the difference?
accelerate | fasten |
As verbs the difference between accelerate and fasten is that accelerate is ( label) to cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of while fasten is to attach or connect in a secure manner. As an adjective accelerate is (rare) accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.
accelerate English
Verb
( accelerat)
(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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To cause a change of velocity.
(label) To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
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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.
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Synonyms
* advance
* dispatch
* expedite
* forward
* further
* hasten
* quicken
* speed up
Antonyms
* decelerate
* retard
Derived terms
* accelerative
* accelerator
* accelerated motion
* accelerating force
Related terms
* accelerando
* accelerant
* acceleration
* accelerograph
* accelerometer
Adjective
(rare) Accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.
* 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems , Dialogue 2:
- ... a general knowledg of the definition of motion, and of the distinction of natural and violent, even and accelerate , and the like, sufficing.
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fasten English
Verb
( en verb)
To attach or connect in a secure manner.
- The sailor fastened the boat to the dock with a half-hitch.
- Fasten your seatbelts!
- Can you fasten these boards together with some nails?
* Jonathan Swift
- The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties, with very different ideas fastened to them.
To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.
- to fasten a blow
* Shakespeare
- if I can fasten but one cup upon him
Related terms
* bedfast
* breastfast
* colorfast
* cragfast
* fast
* fastening
* handfast
* headfast
* holdfast
* makefast
* sitfast
* shamefast
* soothfast
* steadfast
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