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Toddle vs Accelerate - What's the difference?

toddle | accelerate | Related terms |

Toddle is a related term of accelerate.


As verbs the difference between toddle and accelerate

is that toddle is to walk unsteadily, as a small child does while accelerate is (label) to cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.

As an adjective accelerate is

(rare) accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.

toddle

English

Verb

  • To walk unsteadily, as a small child does.
  • To walk in a carefree manner.
  • There he was, just toddling along.

    Synonyms

    * totter

    Derived terms

    * toddler * toddle off

    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 ----