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account
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?.?ka?nt/
- Rhymes: -a?nt
- Hyphenation: ac?count
Etymology 1
From Middle English account, acounte, accounten, from Anglo-Norman acunte (“account”), from Old French aconte, from aconter (“to reckon”), from Latin comput? (“to sum up”).
Noun
account (plural accounts)
- (accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review. [from c. 1300]
- (banking) A bank account.
- 1910, Journal of the American Bankers Association Vol. XI, No. 1, American Bankers Association, page 3:
- The Pueblo bank has advised that the operator opened an account at that bank with currency, and a few days later withdrew the amount.
- 1910, Journal of the American Bankers Association Vol. XI, No. 1, American Bankers Association, page 3:
- A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
- Synonyms: accounting, explanation
- A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
- A record of events; a relation or narrative. [from c. 1610]
- Synonyms: narrative, narration, relation, recital, report, description, explanation
- 1657, James Howell, Londonopolis: An Historical Discourse or Perlustration of the City of London
- A laudible account of the city of London.
- An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
- Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
- Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
- Synonyms: membership, registration
- Meronym: username
- (archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
- Profit; advantage.
Usage notes
- Abbreviations: (business): A/C, a/c, acct., acc.
- Account, narrative, narration, recital are all words applied to different modes of rehearsing a series of events
- Account turns attention not so much to the speaker as to the fact related, and more properly applies to the report of some single event, or a group of incidents taken as whole; for example, a vivid account of a battle, of a shipwreck, of an anecdote, etc.
- A narrative is a continuous story of connected incidents, such as one friend might tell to another; for example, a narrative of the events of a siege, a narrative of one's life, the narrative of the film etc.
- Narration is usually the same as narrative, but is sometimes used to describe the mode of relating events; as, his powers of narration are uncommonly great.
- Recital denotes a series of events drawn out into minute particulars, usually expressing something which peculiarly interests the feelings of the speaker; such as, the recital of one's wrongs, disappointments, sufferings, etc, a piano recital (played without sheet music), a recital of a poem (learned by heart).
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ????? (akaunto)
- ? Swahili: akaunti
Translations
Etymology 2
From Old French acounter, accomptere et al., from a- + conter (“to count”)). Compare count.
Verb
account (third-person singular simple present accounts, present participle accounting, simple past and past participle accounted)
- To provide explanation.
- (obsolete, transitive) To present an account of; to answer for, to justify. [14th-17th c.]
- (intransitive, now rare) To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc. [from 14th c.]
- (transitive) To estimate, consider (something to be as described). [from 14th c.]
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:deem
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, III.8:
- The Pagan Hercules, why was he accounted a hero?
- (intransitive) To consider that. [from 14th c.]
- Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc. [from 15th c.]
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for. [from 16th c.]
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain. [from 16th c.]
- (intransitive) To establish the location for someone. [from 19th c.]
- (intransitive) To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for). [from 19th c.]
- To count.
- (transitive, now rare) To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time). [from 14th c.]
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
- neither the motion of the Moon, whereby moneths are computed; nor of the Sun, whereby years are accounted, consisteth of whole numbers, but admits of fractions, and broken parts, as we have already declared concerning the Moon.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
- (obsolete) To count (up), enumerate. [14th-17th c.]
- (obsolete) To recount, relate (a narrative etc.). [14th-16th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:
- Long worke it were / Here to account the endlesse progeny / Of all the weeds that bud and blossome there [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:
- (transitive, now rare) To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time). [from 14th c.]
Derived terms
Translations
Related terms
- accountable
- accountant
Further reading
- account on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- account (bookkeeping) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- account at OneLook Dictionary Search
- account in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English account.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??k?u?nt/
- Hyphenation: ac?count
Noun
account n (plural accounts, diminutive accountje n)
- a subscription to an electronic service
Related terms
- accountant
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: akun
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English account. Doublet of conto.
Noun
account m (invariable)
- (computing) account
- Synonym: conto
Further reading
- account in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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detail
English
Etymology
French détail, from Old French detail, from detaillier, from de- + taillier (“to cut”).
Pronunciation
- (noun)
- (UK) IPA(key): /?di?te?l/
- (US) IPA(key): /?dite?l/, (also) /d??te?l/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?di?te?l/
- (verb)
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??te?l/, /?di?te?l/
- (US) IPA(key): /d??te?l/, /?dite?l/
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??te?l/, /?di?te?l/
- Rhymes: -i?te?l, -e?l
- Hyphenation: de?tail
Noun
detail (countable and uncountable, plural details)
- (countable) Something small enough to escape casual notice.
- (uncountable) A profusion of details.
- (uncountable) The small things that can escape casual notice.
- Something considered trivial enough to ignore.
- (countable) A person's name, address and other personal information.
- (military, law enforcement) A temporary unit or assignment.
- An individual feature, fact, or other item, considered separately from the whole of which it is a part.
- A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.
- (paintings) a selected portion of a painting
Synonyms
- (something considered trivial enough to ignore): minutia, technicality, trifle, triviality
- (personal information): particulars
- (military: temporary unit): contingent, detachment
- (paintings): portion, section
Derived terms
- in detail
- detail-oriented
- security detail
Translations
See also
- deets
- overview
- bird's-eye view
- big picture
Verb
detail (third-person singular simple present details, present participle detailing, simple past and past participle detailed)
- (transitive) To explain in detail.
- 2014, Ian Black, "Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian, 27 November 2014:
- It is a sunny morning in Amman and the three uniformed judges in Jordan’s state security court are briskly working their way through a pile of slim grey folders on the bench before them. Each details the charges against 25 or so defendants accused of supporting the fighters of the Islamic State (Isis), now rampaging across Syria and Iraq under their sinister black banners and sending nervous jitters across the Arab world.
- 2014, Ian Black, "Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian, 27 November 2014:
- (transitive) To clean carefully (particularly of road vehicles) (always pronounced. /?di?te?l/)
- (transitive, military) to assign to a particular task
Synonyms
- (to explain in detail): specify
- (military: to assign to a particular task): detach
Derived terms
- detailing
Translations
Anagrams
- atelid, dietal, dilate, laited, tailed
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
detail m
- detail
Declension
Synonyms
- podrobnost f
Related terms
- detailní
Further reading
- detail in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- detail in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French détail, from Middle French [Term?], from Old French detail, from detaillier, from de- + taillier (“to cut”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de??t?i?/
- Hyphenation: de?tail
- Rhymes: -?i?
Noun
detail n (plural details, diminutive detailtje n)
- detail
Derived terms
- detailhandel
- detaillist
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: detail
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch detail, from French détail, from Old French detail, from detaillier, from de- + taillier (“to cut”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?ta?l/
- Hyphenation: dê?ta?il
Noun
dêtail (first-person possessive detailku, second-person possessive detailmu, third-person possessive detailnya)
- detail.
Alternative forms
- detil
Derived terms
Further reading
- “detail” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
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