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accretion
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)
- The act of increasing by natural growth; especially the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.
- 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
- 1855, George Cornewall Lewis, An Enquiry Into the Credibility of the Early Roman History
- Something added externally to promote growth the external growth of an item.
- Concretion; coherence of separate particles
- (biology) A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers or toes.
- (geology) The gradual increase of land by deposition of water-borne sediment.
- (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.
- (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
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leap
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: l?p, IPA(key): /li?p/
- Rhymes: -i?p
Etymology 1
From Middle English lepen, from Old English hl?apan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupan?. Cognate with West Frisian ljeppe (“to jump”), Dutch lopen (“to run; to walk”), German laufen (“to run; to walk”), Danish løbe, Norwegian Bokmål løpe, from Proto-Indo-European *klewb- (“to spring, stumble”) (compare Lithuanian šlùbti ‘to become lame’, klùbti ‘to stumble’).
Verb
leap (third-person singular simple present leaps, present participle leaping, simple past leaped or leapt or (archaic) lept or (archaic) lope, past participle leaped or leapt or (archaic) lopen)
- (intransitive) To jump.
- c. 1450, anonymous, Merlin
- It is grete nede a man to go bak to recouer the better his leep
- 1600, anonymous, The wisdome of Doctor Dodypoll, act 4
- I, I defie thee: wert not thou next him when he leapt into the Riuer?
- 1783, Hugh Blair, from the “Illiad” in Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, lecture 4, page 65
- Th’ infernal monarch rear’d his horrid head, Leapt from his throne, lest Neptune’s arm should lay His dark dominions open to the day.
- 1999, Ai, Vice: New & Selected Poems, page 78
- It is better to leap into the void.
- c. 1450, anonymous, Merlin
- (transitive) To pass over by a leap or jump.
- (archaic, transitive) To copulate with (a female beast)
- (archaic, transitive) To copulate with (a human)
- go leap her, and engender young devilings
- (transitive) To cause to leap.
Usage notes
The choice between leapt and leaped is often generally a matter of regional differences: leapt is preferred in British English whereas leaped is somewhat more common in American English (although this is not to say that leapt is not used in American English, especially in areas with historical ties to England). According to research by John Algeo (British or American English?, Cambridge, 2006), leapt is used 80% of the time in UK and 32% in the US.
Synonyms
- (jump from one location to another): bound, hop, jump, spring
- (jump upwards): bound, hop, jump, spring
Derived terms
- beleap
- forthleap
- leaper
- outleap
- overleap
- upleap
Translations
Noun
leap (plural leaps)
- The act of leaping or jumping.
- 1877, Henry Sweet, A Handbook of Phonetics
- Changes of tone may proceed either by leaps or glides.
- 1877, Henry Sweet, A Handbook of Phonetics
- The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
- A group of leopards.
- (figuratively) A significant move forward.
- 1969 July 20, Neil Armstrong, as he became the first man to step on the moon
- That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.
- 1969 July 20, Neil Armstrong, as he became the first man to step on the moon
- (figuratively) A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts.
- It's quite a leap to claim that those cloud formations are evidence of UFOs.
- (mining) A fault.
- Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
- 1865, British Farmer's Magazine (issue 48, page 8)
- Much difference of opinion exists as to the number of bullings a cow should receive. Here, I think, good judgment should be used. If the bull is cool and quiet, and some time has intervened since he had his last cow, one good leap is better than more […]
- 1865, British Farmer's Magazine (issue 48, page 8)
- (music) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
- A salmon ladder.
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
leap (not comparable)
- (calendar) Intercalary, bissextile.
Etymology 2
From Middle English leep, from Old English l?ap (“basket”), from Proto-Germanic *laupaz (“container, basket”). Cognate with Icelandic laupur (“basket”).
Alternative forms
- leep
Noun
leap (plural leaps)
- (obsolete) A basket.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Wyclif to this entry?)
- A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely.
- Half a bushel.
Anagrams
- Alep, Lape, Peal, e-pal, pale, pale-, peal, pela, plea
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