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What is the difference between quickened and accelerate?

quickened | accelerate |

As verbs the difference between quickened and accelerate

is that quickened is past tense of quicken while accelerate is to cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.

As an adjective accelerate is

accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.

quickened

English

Verb

(head)
  • (quicken)

  • quicken

    English

    Etymology 1

    From . Compare Swedish kvickna, Danish kvikne.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • *1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. (Bible) , (w) XVII:
  • *:Whosoever will goo about to save his lyfe, shall loose it: And whosoever shall loose his life, shall
  • *1610 , , act 3
  • *:The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead, / And makes my labours pleasures
  • *(Robert South) (1634–1716)
  • *:Like a fruitful garden without an hedge, that quickens the appetite to enjoy so tempting a prize.
  • (lb) To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be roused, excited.
  • *1910 , ‘(Saki)’, "The Lost Sanjak", Reginald in Russia :
  • *:The Chaplain's interest in the story visibly quickened .
  • (lb) Of a pregnant woman: to first feel the movements of the foetus, or reach the stage of pregnancy at which this takes place; of a foetus: to begin to move.
  • *2013 , (Hilary Mantel), ‘Royal Bodies’, (London Review of Books) , 35.IV:
  • *:Royal pregnancies were not announced in those days; the news generally crept out, and public anticipation was aroused only when the child quickened .
  • (lb) To make quicker; to hasten, speed up.
  • *2000 , (George RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam 2011, p.47:
  • *:That day Arya quickened their pace, keeping the horses to a trot as long as she dared, and sometimes spurring to a gallop when she spied a flat stretch of field before them.
  • (lb) To become faster.
  • :
  • *
  • *:Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
  • (lb) To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper.
  • :
  • Etymology 2

    Apparently from quick, with uncertain final element.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • *1924 , (Ford Madox Ford), Some Do Not…'', Penguin 2012 (''Parade's End ), p, 104:
  • *:Miss Wannop moved off down the path: it was only suited for Indian file, and had on the left hand a ten-foot, untrimmed quicken hedge, the hawthorn blossoms just beginning to blacken […].
  • Synonyms
    * quickbeam English ergative verbs

    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.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Michael Sivak
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Will AC Put a Chill on the Global Energy Supply? , passage=Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent, with the consequences of climate change potentially accelerating the demand.}}
  • 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 ----