Accumulate
[ə'kjuːmjʊleɪt] or [ə'kjumjəlet]
Definition
(verb.) collect or gather; 'Journals are accumulating in my office'; 'The work keeps piling up'.
Checked by Danny--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.
(v. i.) To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.
(a.) Collected; accumulated.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Pile, amass, aggregate, collect, collect together, gather up, pile up, heap up, bring together, heap together, scrape together.[2]. Store, garner, husband, HOARD, treasure up, garner up, lay up, lay by, lay in, set by.
v. n. Increase, grow, be accumulated, be heaped up.
Checker: Tina
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Collect, gamer, grow, mass, heap, store, bring_together, hoard, gather,agglomerate, husband, augment, amass, increase
ANT:Dissipate, disperse, diminish, scatter, expend, waste
Editor: Lyle
Definition
v.t. to heap or pile up: to amass: to take degrees by accumulation to take a higher degree at the same time with a lower or at a shorter interval than usual.—v.i. to increase greatly: to go on increasing.—n. Accumulā′tion a heaping up: a heap mass or pile.—adj. Accum′ulative heaping up.—n. Accum′ulator a thing or person that accumulates esp. an apparatus for storing electricity.
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Examples
- It is more laborious to accumulate facts than to reason concerning them; but one good experiment is of more value than the ingenuity of a brain like Newton's. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- And an army of emigrés, French nobles and gentlemen, an army largely of officers, was allowed to accumulate close to the frontier. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In this way he was able to accumulate an abundance before the time finally fixed upon for the move, the 4th of May. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The cry is taken up by a hundred voices, and the crowd accumulate at every turning. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The earth will accumulate cold so long as this conspiracy of extreme conditions continues. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Rich people have no right to sit down and enjoy themselves, or let their money accumulate for others to waste. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- At this rate for twenty-four hours a day, with no stops for eating or sleeping, it would take you 352,331,022,041,828,731,333,333,333 years to accumulate a duodecillion dollars. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The house of Lazarus is a three-story edifice, of stone masonry, but the accumulated rubbish of ages has buried all of it but the upper story. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We were failing under the accumulated fatigue of days and days of ceaseless marching. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He assembled an army, accumulated guns, and then laid claim to the Punjab, because Timur had conquered it a hundred and seven years before. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The achievements accumulated from generation to generation are deposited in it even though some of them have fallen temporarily out of use. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I found the reason of the mud was that I carried so much water it passed over into the stack, and this washed out all the accumulated soot. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- To the lay mind a storage battery presents itself in the aspect of a device in which electric energy is STORED, just as compressed air is stored or accumulated in a tank. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The accumulated treasures of the prince have in former times afforded a much greater and more lasting resource. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Six weeks after he arrived he began his first course of lectures, taking for his subject the history of galvanism, and the various methods of accumulating galvanic influence. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Her father was heir-at-law to a great estate that had long lain unknown of, unclaimed, and accumulating. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Stocks which had been accumulating for years now went off in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Along its own line this species of men was accumulating a dim tradition, and working out its limited possibilities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He began with the history of Galvanism, de tailed the successive discoveries, and described the different methods of accumulating influence. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The eighteenth century was a century of accumulating grievance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Shells and bones decay and disappear when left on the bottom of the sea, where sediment is not accumulating. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- And bad blood accumulates. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The wax of the ear is essential for flexibility of the ear drum; if an extra amount accumulates, it can be got rid of by bathing the ear in hot water, since the heat will melt the wax. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- But man can and does select the variations given to him by nature, and thus accumulates them in any desired manner. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It gradually accumulates around these, until the heaps become very large, often forming dunes or sand-hills. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- About a gill of the sap accumulates in each cup in the course of a day, and it is then transferred to receiving vessels and taken to camp. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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