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What is the difference between faster and accelerate?

faster | accelerate |

As adjectives the difference between faster and accelerate

is that faster is (fast) while accelerate is (rare) accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.

As a adverb faster

is .

As a noun faster

is agent noun of fast (voluntarily refrain from eating); one who fasts.

As a verb accelerate is

to cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.

faster

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (fast)
  • Adverb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Agent noun of fast (voluntarily refrain from eating); one who fasts.
  • Anagrams

    * English agent nouns ----

    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.
  • 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)
  • Synonyms

    * advance * dispatch * expedite * forward * further * hasten * quicken * speed up

    Antonyms

    * decelerate * retard

    Derived terms

    * accelerative * accelerator * accelerated motion * accelerating force

    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.

    References

    * English ergative verbs ----