different between accumulation vs corps

English

Etymology

• First attested in the late 15th century.
• accumulate +? -ion, or borrowed from Latin accumulatio, accumulationis. Doublet of accumulatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.?kju?m.j?.?le?.??n/
• Hyphenation: ac?cu?mu?la?tion
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

accumulation (countable and uncountable, plural accumulations)

1. The act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.
2. The process of growing into a heap or a large amount.

3. A mass of something piled up or collected.
4. (law) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
5. (accounting) The continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings.
6. (finance) The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is low.
7. (Britain, education, historical, uncountable) The practice of taking two higher degrees simultaneously, to reduce the length of study.

Synonyms

• (accounting): retained earnings

Antonyms

• decumulation

Related terms

• accumulate
• accumulator

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin accumulatio, accumulationem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ky.my.la.sj??/

Noun

accumulation f (plural accumulations)

1. accumulation (action of accumulating)
2. accumulation (result of accumulating)

Related terms

• accumuler

Further reading

• “accumulation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology 1

From French corps d'armée (literally “army body”), from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpse and corpus. See also English riff.

Pronunciation

Singular

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kô, IPA^(key): /k??/
• (General American) enPR: kôr, IPA^(key): /k??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: k?r, IPA^(key): /ko(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ko?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: core, cor; caw (non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Plural

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kôz, IPA^(key): /k??z/
• (General American) enPR: kôrz, IPA^(key): /k??z/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: k?rz, IPA^(key): /ko(?)?z/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ko?z/
• Rhymes: -??(?)z
• Homophone: cores; cause, caws (non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Noun

corps (plural corps)

1. (military) A battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions.
2. An organized group of people united by a common purpose.
   • diplomatic corps
   • White House press corps

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping.

Noun

corps

1. plural of corp

Anagrams

• S corp., crops, procs, scorp, sproc

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin corpus.

Noun

corps m (plural corps)

1. body

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French corps, from Middle French cors, from Old French cors, from Latin corpus. Doublet of corpus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko?r/
• Hyphenation: corps

Noun

corps n (plural corpsen or corpora, diminutive corpsje n)

1. student society, especially a traditional and hierarchical one
2. Superseded spelling of korps.

Usage notes

Traditional student societies tend to prescribe the plural corpora, in regular language the plural corpsen is more common.

Synonyms

• studentencorps
• natie (historical)

Derived terms

• corpsbal
• corpslid
• studentencorps

French

Etymology

From Middle French cors, from Old French cors, inherited from Latin corpus (“body”), from Proto-Indo-European *?rep-. The p was added back to reflect the Latin etymology. Doublet of corpus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??/
• Homophones: cor, cors

Noun

corps m (plural corps)

1. body
2. (mathematics) field (in abstract algebra)
3. (military) corps

Derived terms

Descendants

• Karipúna Creole French: kó
• ? Danish: korps
• ? English: corps
• ? Dutch: corps, korps
• ? German: Korps
• ? Norwegian Bokmål: korps
• ? Norwegian Nynorsk: korps
• ? Swedish: kår

Further reading

• “corps” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• porcs