different between raced vs accelerate

English

Pronunciation

Verb

raced

1. simple past tense and past participle of race

Adjective

raced (not comparable)

1. (social studies) Belonging to a certain race of people.
   • 2007, Steve Garner, Whiteness: An Introduction (page 39)

     McKinney presents a large number of accounts by her students that describe white people coming to realise they are raced.

   • 2011, Richard A. Bailey, Race and Redemption in Puritan New England (page 48)

     In fact, as Jordan's analysis attests, whites constructed raced identities for Africans founded not so much on their assumptions about a color but more on the various ways in which they experienced life alongside their darker-skinned neighbors.

Anagrams

• Cedar, Cerda, Cerdà, Dacre, acred, arced, cader, cadre, cared, cedar, decar, e-card, ecard

Welsh

Etymology

From English racket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rak?d/

Noun

raced f (plural racedi, not mutable)

1. racket

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “raced”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

English

Etymology

First attested in the 1520s. Either from Latin acceler?tus, perfect passive participle of acceler? (“I accelerate, hasten”), formed from ad + celer? (“I hasten”), which is from celer (“quick”) (see celerity), or back-formation from acceleration.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k.?s?l.?.??e?t/, /æk.?s?l.?.??e?t/, /?k.?s?l.?.??e?t/

Verb

accelerate (third-person singular simple present accelerates, present participle accelerating, simple past and past participle accelerated)

1. (transitive) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
2. (transitive) To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
3. (transitive, physics) To cause a change of velocity.
4. (transitive) To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.

5. (transitive, education) To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
6. (intransitive) To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
7. (intransitive) Grow; increase.
8. (obsolete) Alternative form of accelerated

Synonyms

• (to cause to move faster): hasten, quicken, speed up; see also Thesaurus:speed up
• (to quicken progress): expedite, further,
• (to hasten the occurrence of an event): advance, forward

Antonyms

• decelerate
• retard
• unaccelerate

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

accelerate

1. (rare) Accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.
   • 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Dialogue 2:

     ... a general knowledg of the definition of motion, and of the distinction of natural and violent, even and accelerate, and the like, sufficing.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “accelerate”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Italian

Adjective

accelerate

1. feminine plural of accelerato

Verb

accelerate

1. second-person plural present indicative of accelerare
2. second-person plural imperative of accelerare
3. feminine plural of accelerato

Latin

Verb

acceler?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of acceler?