different between slump vs accelerate
slump
English
Etymology
Probably of North Germanic origin: compare Danish slumpe (“to stumble upon by chance”), Norwegian slumpe (“happen by chance”), Swedish slumpa (“to sell off”). Compare also German schlumpen (“to trail; draggle; be sloppy”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sl?mp/
- Rhymes: -?mp
Verb
slump (third-person singular simple present slumps, present participle slumping, simple past and past participle slumped)
- (intransitive) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
- “Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better. […]”
- (intransitive) To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
- (intransitive) To slouch or droop.
- (transitive) To lump; to throw together messily.
- These different groups […] are exclusively slumped together under that sense.
- To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, The Danger and Mischief of Delaying Repentance (sermon)
- The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump.
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, The Danger and Mischief of Delaying Repentance (sermon)
- (slang) (transitive) To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unsconscious; to kill.
Translations
Noun
slump (plural slumps)
- A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
- (slang by extension) A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.
- 2004, Jonathan Tolins, The Last Sunday in June
- TOM. We haven't had sex with each other in five months.
- MICHAEL. We're in a slump, I know that."
- 2004, Jonathan Tolins, The Last Sunday in June
- (slang by extension) A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.
- A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed.
- (Britain, dialect) A boggy place.
- (Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
- (Scotland) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
Derived terms
- slumplike
Translations
Anagrams
- Plums, lumps, plums
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From the verb slumpa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sl?mp/
Noun
slump m (definite singular slumpen, indefinite plural slumpar, definite plural slumpane)
- random event, chance, happenstance
- Eg valde han ut på slump.
- I picked it randomly.
- Eg valde han ut på slump.
- a good amount, quite a bit
- Eg vann ein god slump pengar i går.
- I won quite a bit of money yesterday.
- Eg vann ein god slump pengar i går.
Verb
slump
- imperative of slumpa
Further reading
- “slump” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Spanish
Noun
slump m (plural slumps)
- slump (decline)
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
slump c
- chance, happenstance
Declension
Derived terms
- slumpartikel
Related terms
- slumpvariabel
- slumpa
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accelerate
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)
- (transitive) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
- (transitive) To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
- (transitive, physics) To cause a change of velocity.
- (transitive) To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
- (transitive, education) To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
- (intransitive) To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
- (intransitive) Grow; increase.
- (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
- (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.
- 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Dialogue 2:
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
- feminine plural of accelerato
Verb
accelerate
- second-person plural present indicative of accelerare
- second-person plural imperative of accelerare
- feminine plural of accelerato
Latin
Verb
acceler?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of acceler?
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