Whisk vs Accelerate - What's the difference?
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A quick, light sweeping motion.
A kitchen utensil, made from stiff wire loops fixed to a handle, used for whipping (or a mechanical device with the same function).
A bunch of twigs or hair etc, used as a brush.
A small handheld broom with a small (or no) handle.
A plane used by coopers for evening chines.
A kind of cape, forming part of a woman's dress.
* Samuel Pepys
(archaic) An impertinent fellow.
To move something with quick light sweeping motions.
* J. Fletcher
In cooking, to whip e.g. eggs or cream.
To move something rapidly and with no warning.
* Walpole
To move lightly and nimbly.
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(obsolete) The card game whist.
(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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(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)
(rare) Accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.
* 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems , Dialogue 2:
Whisk is a related term of accelerate.
As verbs the difference between whisk and accelerate
is that whisk is to move something with quick light sweeping motions while accelerate is (label) to cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.As a noun whisk
is a quick, light sweeping motion or whisk can be (obsolete) the card game whist.As an adjective accelerate is
(rare) accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.whisk
English
Etymology 1
(etyl), from (etyl) viskAccording to] eng. (vist laant fra nord. ) whisk, the English (certainly borrowed from Old Norse) whisk[http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?action=search&word=whisk&resource=Webster's&quicksearch=on Etymology in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, from (etyl) . Cognate with Danish (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) .
Noun
(en noun)- With a quick whisk , she swept the cat from the pantry with her broom.
- He used a whisk to whip up a light and airy souffle.
- Peter dipped the whisk in lather and applied it to his face, so he could start shaving.
- '' I used a whisk to sweep the counter, then a push-broom for the floor.
- My wife in her new lace whisk .
- (Halliwell)
Verb
(en verb)- He that walks in gray, whisking his riding rod.
- I beg she would not impale worms, nor whisk carp out of one element into another.
References
Etymology 2
Noun
(-)accelerate
English
Verb
(accelerat)Michael Sivak
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Synonyms
* advance * dispatch * expedite * forward * further * hasten * quicken * speed upAntonyms
* decelerate * retardDerived terms
* accelerative * accelerator * accelerated motion * accelerating forceAdjective
- ... a general knowledg of the definition of motion, and of the distinction of natural and violent, even and accelerate , and the like, sufficing.