Accelerate
[ək'seləreɪt] or [ək'sɛləret]
Definition
(verb.) move faster; 'The car accelerated'.
(verb.) cause to move faster; 'He accelerated the car'.
Typist: Shane--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.
(v. t.) To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc.
(v. t.) To hasten, as the occurence of an event; as, to accelerate our departure.
Typed by Gus
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Hasten, expedite, hurry, quicken, speed, precipitate, despatch, urge forward, push forward, push on, press on, urge on.
Checker: Max
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Hasten, urge, expedite, quicken, speed, urge_on, press_forward, hurry, promote,dispatch, facilitate
ANT:Delay, obstruct, impede, clog, retard, hinder, shackle, drag
Checker: Olga
Definition
v.t. to increase the speed of: to hasten the progress of.—n. Accelerā′tion the act of hastening: increase of speed.—adj. Accel′erative quickening.—n. Accel′erator one who or that which accelerates: a light van to take mails between a post-office and a railway station.—adj. Accel′eratory.
Typist: Rudy
Examples
- You cannot,' she affirmed triumphantly--'you cannot make me tremble with your coming, nor accelerate my pulse by your influence. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A characteristic trend of the present age is toward increased speed in everything, and the most conspicuous example of accelerated speed in late years is the bicycle. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- First, I smiled to myself and felt elate; but this fierce pleasure subsided in me as fast as did the accelerated throb of my pulses. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It treats of cohesion and resistance to fracture (strength of materials), and uniform, accelerated, and projectile motion (dynamics). Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The talk took refuge in less ominous topics; but everything they touched on seemed to confirm Mrs. Archer's sense of an accelerated trend. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- We were crossing to the former place, when I found that my aunt greatly accelerated her speed, and looked frightened. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- A second great thrust by China began about 75 A.D., and accelerated the westward drift of the nomads. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This caused the enemy to evacuate their position, which was possibly accelerated by the expedition of Hovey and Washburn. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The action and reaction thus constantly at work, tend to give accelerating impulse to invention, and are continually enlarging its sphere of operations. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
Checker: Mattie