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accident
English
Etymology
- First attested in the late 14th century. From Middle English, from Old French accident, from Latin accid?ns, present active participle of accid? (“happen”); from ad (“to”) + cad? (“fall”). See cadence, case. In the sense "unintended pregnancy", first attested in 1932.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?æk.s?.d?nt/, /?æk.s?.d?nt/
Noun
accident (countable and uncountable, plural accidents)
- An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences.
- c.1603, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice, I-iii,
- Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, / Of moving accidents by flood and field […]
- c.1603, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice, I-iii,
- (transport, vehicles) Especially, a collision or similar unintended event that causes damage or death.
- Any chance event.
- (uncountable) Chance.
- c.1861-1863, Richard Chevenix Trench, in 1888, Letters and memorials, Volume 1,
- Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident, / It is the very place God meant for thee; […]
- c.1861-1863, Richard Chevenix Trench, in 1888, Letters and memorials, Volume 1,
- Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential.
- 1883, J. P. Mahaffy, Social life in Greece from Homer to Menander,
- This accident, as I call it, of Athens being situated some miles from the sea, which is rather the consequence of its being a very ancient site, […]
- 1883, J. P. Mahaffy, Social life in Greece from Homer to Menander,
- (euphemistic) An instance of incontinence.
- 2009, Marcia Stedron, My Roller Coaster Life as an Army Wife, Xlibris Corporation, ?ISBN, page 56:
- We weren’t there long when Karin asked about our dog. When we told her Chris was in the car, she insisted we bring him up to the apartment. I rejected her offer and said he might have an accident on the carpet and I didn’t want to worry about it.
- 2009, Marcia Stedron, My Roller Coaster Life as an Army Wife, Xlibris Corporation, ?ISBN, page 56:
- (euphemistic) An unintended pregnancy.
- (philosophy, logic) A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, page 171:
- If they went through their growth-crisis in other faiths and other countries, although the essence of the change would be the same […] , its accidents would be different.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, page 171:
- (grammar) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case.
- a 1799, John Parkhurst, A Hebrew and English lexicon without points, page 25
- An adjective, so called because adjectitious, or added to a substantive, denotes some quality or accident of the substantive to which it is joined […]
- a 1799, John Parkhurst, A Hebrew and English lexicon without points, page 25
- (geology) An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.
- (geology) A sudden discontinuity of ground such as fault of great thickness, bed or lentil of unstable ground.
- (heraldry) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
- (law) casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
- (uncountable, philosophy, uncommon) Appearance, manifestation.
- 14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale in The Canterbury Tales,
- These cookes how they stamp, and strain, and grind, / And turne substance into accident, / To fulfill all thy likerous talent!
- 1677, Heraclitus Christianus: or, the Man of Sorrow, chapter 3, page 14:
- But as to Man, all the Fruits of the Earth, all sorts of Herbs, Plants and Roots, the Fishes of the Sea, and the Birds of the Air do not suffice him, but he must disguise, vary, and sophisticate, change the substance into accident, that by such irritations as these, Nature might be provoked, and as it were necessitated.
- 14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale in The Canterbury Tales,
Synonyms
- (unexpected event with negative consequences): mishap
- (unexpected event that takes place without foresight or expectation): befalling, chance, contingency, casualty; See also Thesaurus:accident
- (chance): fortune, luck; see also Thesaurus:luck
- (law): casus
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
References
- Elisabetta Lonati, "Allas, the shorte throte, the tendre mouth": the sins of the mouth in The Canterbury Tales, in Thou sittest at another boke, volume 3 (2008, ISSN 1974-0603), page 253: "the cooks "turnen substance into accident" (Pd 539), transform the raw material, its natural essence, into the outward aspect by which it is known."
- Barbara Fass Leavy, To Blight With Plague: Studies in a Literary Theme (1993), page 47:
- To turn substance into accident is to give external form to what previously was unformed, to transform spirit into matter, to reduce eternal truths to their ephemeral physical manifestations.
Further reading
- accident in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- accident in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- accident at OneLook Dictionary Search
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin accid?ns, present active participle of accid? (“happen”).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /?k.si?dent/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?k.si?den/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ak.si?dent/
Noun
accident m (plural accidents)
- accident (a chance occurrence)
- (grammar) accident
- (music) accidental
- (logic) accident
- (transport) accident
- (geography) feature
Derived terms
- accidentar
- accidentogen
Related terms
- accidental
Further reading
- “accident” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “accident” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “accident” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “accident” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch accident, from Middle French accident.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??k.si?d?nt/
- Hyphenation: ac?ci?dent
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
accident n (plural accidenten, diminutive accidentje n)
- (philosophy, theology) accidental property
- (now Belgium) accident
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ak.si.d??/
Noun
accident m (plural accidents)
- accident
Derived terms
- accident de décompression
- accident de parcours
- accident de travail/accident du travail
- accident vasculaire cérébral
- accidentel
- accidenter
Further reading
- “accident” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Etymology 1
Form of the verb accid? (“I fall down upon”).
Verb
accident
- third-person plural future active indicative of accid?
Etymology 2
Form of the verb acc?d? (“I cut down”).
Verb
acc?dent
- third-person plural future active indicative of acc?d?
Middle French
Noun
accident m (plural accidens)
- accident (unexpected outcome)
Old French
Noun
accident m (oblique plural accidenz or accidentz, nominative singular accidenz or accidentz, nominative plural accident)
- accident (chance occurrence)
- symptom (medical)
Descendants
- English: accident
- French: accident
Romanian
Etymology
From French accident
Noun
accident n (plural accidente)
- accident
Declension
Scots
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?aks?d?nt]
Noun
accident (plural accidents)
- An accident; a coincidental occurence or event.
References
- Eagle, Andy, editor (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.
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case
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ke?s/
- Rhymes: -e?s
- Hyphenation: case
Etymology 1
Middle English cas, from Old French cas (“an event”), from Latin c?sus (“a falling, a fall; accident, event, occurrence; occasion, opportunity; noun case”), perfect passive participle of cad? (“to fall, to drop”).
Noun
case (plural cases)
- An actual event, situation, or fact.
- (now rare) A given condition or state.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.10:
- Ne wist he how to turne, nor to what place: / Was never wretched man in such a wofull cace.
- 1726, Nathan Bailey, John Worlidge, Dictionarium Rusticum, Urbanicum & Botanicum
- Mares which are over-fat, hold with much difficulty; whereas those that are but in good case and plump, conceive with the greatest readiness and ease.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.10:
- A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession.
- (academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.
- (law) A legal proceeding, lawsuit.
- (grammar) A specific inflection of a word depending on its function in the sentence.
- Now, the Subject of either an indicative or a subjunctive Clause is always assigned Nominative case, as we see from:
(16) (a) ? I know [that they/*them/*their leave for Hawaii tomorrow]
(16) (b) ? I demand [that they/*them/*their leave for Hawaii tomorrow]
By contrast, the Subject of an infinitive Clause is assigned Objective case, as we see from:
(17) ? I want [them/*they/*their to leave for Hawaii tomorrow]
And the Subject of a gerund Clause is assigned either Objective or Genitive case: cf.
(18) ? I don't like the idea of [them/their/*they leaving for Hawaii tomorrow]
- Now, the Subject of either an indicative or a subjunctive Clause is always assigned Nominative case, as we see from:
- (grammar, uncountable) Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.
- (medicine) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
- (programming) A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.
Synonyms
Hyponyms
- court case
- See also Thesaurus:grammatical case
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
case (third-person singular simple present cases, present participle casing, simple past and past participle cased)
- (obsolete) to propose hypothetical cases
See also
- Appendix:Grammatical cases
References
- case on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
From Middle English cas, from Old Northern French casse, (compare Old French chasse (“box, chest, case”)), from Latin capsa (“box, bookcase”), from capi? (“to take, seize, hold”). Doublet of cash.
Noun
case (plural cases)
- A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.
- A box, sheath, or covering generally.
- A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.
- An enclosing frame or casing.
- A suitcase.
- A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed.
- The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.
- (printing, historical) A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type, traditionally arranged in sets of two, the "upper case" (containing capitals, small capitals, accented) and "lower case" (small letters, figures, punctuation marks, quadrats, and spaces).
- (typography, by extension) The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter.
- (poker slang) Four of a kind.
- (US) A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid ounces.
- (mining) A small fissure which admits water into the workings.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- A thin layer of harder metal on the surface of an object whose deeper metal is allowed to remain soft.
- A cardboard box that holds (usually 24) beer bottles or cans.
- Synonym: carton
Hyponyms
Translations
References
- Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ?ISBN
Adjective
case (not comparable)
- (poker slang) The last remaining card of a particular rank.
- 2006, David Apostolico, Lessons from the Professional Poker Tour (page 21)
- If he did have a bigger ace, I still had at least six outs — the case ace, two nines, and three tens. I could also have more outs if he held anything less than A-K.
- 2006, David Apostolico, Lessons from the Professional Poker Tour (page 21)
References
- Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ?ISBN
Verb
case (third-person singular simple present cases, present participle casing, simple past and past participle cased)
- (transitive) To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.
- (transitive) To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.
- 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II
- The man who, cased in steel, had passed whole days and nights in the saddle.
- 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II
- (transitive, informal) To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.
- 1977, Michael Innes, The Gay Phoenix, ?ISBN, page 116:
- You are in the grounds of Brockholes Abbey, a house into which a great deal of valuable property has just been moved. And your job is to case the joint for a break in.
- 2014, Amy Goodman, From COINTELPRO to Snowden, the FBI Burglars Speak Out After 43 Years of Silence (Part 2), Democracy Now!, January 8, 2014, 0:49 to 0:57:
- Bonnie worked as a daycare director. She helped case the FBI office by posing as a college student interested in becoming an FBI agent.
- 1977, Michael Innes, The Gay Phoenix, ?ISBN, page 116:
Translations
Derived terms
- case the deck
Anagrams
- ACEs, ASCE, Aces, Ceas, ESCA, SCEA, aces, aesc, esca, æsc
Afar
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???se/
Verb
casé
- (transitive) hit
Conjugation
References
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 263
Asturian
Verb
case
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive of casar
Chinese
Alternative forms
- K?
Etymology
Borrowed from English case.
Pronunciation
Noun
case
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) case (clarification of this definition is needed)
- 2015, ???, ????????? II??????????
- ????case???????????????case?? [Cantonese, trad.]
- ni1 go3 hou2 do1 kei1 si2 gaa3. ni1 jat1 go3, zau6 hai6 zoeng1 gwok3 wing4, jau5 gam2 go3 kei1 si2 laa1. [Jyutping]
- That kind of case happens often. It happened with Leslie Cheung.
????case???????????????case?? [Cantonese, simp.]
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin casa, in the sense of "hut, cabin". The other senses are a semantic loan from Spanish casa. Doublet of chez, which was inherited.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?z/
- Homophone: cases
Noun
case f (plural cases)
- (archaic, rare or regional) hut, cabin, shack
- box (on form)
- square (on board game)
Derived terms
- case départ
- case à cocher
Further reading
- “case” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- à sec
Galician
Alternative forms
- caixe
Etymology
Attested since the 15th century (quasy), from Latin quasi (“as if”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?k?s?]
Adverb
case
- almost
References
- “quasy” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “case” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “case” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “case” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Italian
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ca?se
Noun
case f
- plural of casa
Anagrams
- asce, esca, seca
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?sas?/, [?t?sas?]
Noun
case
- nominative/accusative plural of cas
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *k?si, from late Proto-West Germanic *k?s?, borrowed from Latin c?seus.
Noun
câse m or n
- cheese
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Alternative forms
- kese (eastern)
Descendants
- Dutch: kaas
- Afrikaans: kaas
- ? Sotho: kase
- ? Tswana: kase
- ? Papiamentu: keshi (from the diminutive)
- ? Sranan Tongo: kasi
- Afrikaans: kaas
- Limburgish: kieës, kees
Further reading
- “case”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “case (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I
Old French
Noun
case m (oblique plural cases, nominative singular cases, nominative plural case)
- (grammar) case
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ca?se
- Rhymes: -azi
Verb
case
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of casar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of casar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of casar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of casar
Romanian
Noun
case
- plural of cas?
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kase/, [?ka.se]
Verb
case
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of casar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of casar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of casar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of casar.
Venetian
Noun
case
- plural of casa
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