different between accretion vs advantage

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin accr?ti?, from ad (“to”) + cr?sc? (“grow”). First attested in the 1610s. Compare crescent, increase, accrue, and so on.

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: ?kr?sh?n, IPA^(key): /?.?k?i.??n/
• Rhymes: -i???n

Noun

accretion (countable and uncountable, plural accretions)

1. The act of increasing by natural growth; especially the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.
2. The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition
   • 1855, George Cornewall Lewis, An Enquiry Into the Credibility of the Early Roman History

     To strip off all the subordinate parts of his as a later accretion

3. Something added externally to promote growth the external growth of an item.
4. Concretion; coherence of separate particles

5. (biology) A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers or toes.
6. (geology) The gradual increase of land by deposition of water-borne sediment.
7. (law) The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.
8. (law) Gain to an heir or legatee; failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share percentage.

Synonyms

• growth

Antonyms

• decay
• erosion
• attrition

Derived terms

• co-accretion

Related terms

• accretion disk
• accrete
• accretive

Translations

References

• accretion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• anorectic

English

Alternative forms

• advauntage (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English avantage, avauntage, from Old French avantage, from avant (“before”), from Medieval Latin abante. The spelling with d was a mistake, a- being supposed to be from Latin ad (see advance). For sense development, compare foredeal.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?v??n.t?d?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?væn.(t)?d?/

Noun

advantage (countable and uncountable, plural advantages)

1. (countable) Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end.
2. (obsolete) Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other party.
3. (countable, uncountable) Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit

4. (tennis) The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game.
5. (soccer) The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in an advantageous position.
6. Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).

Synonyms

• foredeal, benefit, value, edge
• vantage

Antonyms

• disadvantage, drawback

Derived terms