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utility
English
Etymology
utile +? -ity, from Old French utilitet (“usefulness”), from Latin ?tilit?s, from uti (“to use”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ju??t?l.?.ti/
- Rhymes: -?l?ti
Noun
utility (countable and uncountable, plural utilities)
- The state or condition of being useful; usefulness.
- Something that is useful.
- (economics) The ability of a commodity to satisfy needs or wants; the satisfaction experienced by the consumer of that commodity.
- (philosophy) Well-being, satisfaction, pleasure, or happiness.
- (business, finance) A service provider, such as an electric company or water company; or, the securities of such a provider.
- (computing) A software program designed to perform a single task or a small range of tasks, often to help manage and tune computer hardware, an operating system or application software.
- I've bought a new disk utility that can recover deleted files.
- 1982, InfoWorld (volume 4, number 10, page 35)
- The system includes an 8080 and a Z80 assembler, a Tektronix format downloader and other utilities.
- (sports) The ability to play multiple positions.
Antonyms
- disutility
- inutility
Derived terms
- beautility
- multiutility
- utilitarian
Translations
Adjective
utility
- Having to do with, or owned by, a service provider.
- utility line; utility bill
- Designating of a room in a house or building where mechanical equipment is installed; such as a furnace, water tank/heater, circuit breaker, and/or air conditioning unit; and often equipped with hookups for laundry equipment (washer/dryer).
- utility room
Synonyms
- (state of being useful): usefulness, note
- See also Thesaurus:utility
Spanish
Noun
utility m (plural utilitys)
- (sports) utility
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account
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?.?ka?nt/
- Rhymes: -a?nt
- Hyphenation: ac?count
Etymology 1
From Middle English account, acounte, accounten, from Anglo-Norman acunte (“account”), from Old French aconte, from aconter (“to reckon”), from Latin comput? (“to sum up”).
Noun
account (plural accounts)
- (accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review. [from c. 1300]
- (banking) A bank account.
- 1910, Journal of the American Bankers Association Vol. XI, No. 1, American Bankers Association, page 3:
- The Pueblo bank has advised that the operator opened an account at that bank with currency, and a few days later withdrew the amount.
- 1910, Journal of the American Bankers Association Vol. XI, No. 1, American Bankers Association, page 3:
- A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
- Synonyms: accounting, explanation
- A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
- A record of events; a relation or narrative. [from c. 1610]
- Synonyms: narrative, narration, relation, recital, report, description, explanation
- 1657, James Howell, Londonopolis: An Historical Discourse or Perlustration of the City of London
- A laudible account of the city of London.
- An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
- Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
- Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
- Synonyms: membership, registration
- Meronym: username
- (archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
- Profit; advantage.
Usage notes
- Abbreviations: (business): A/C, a/c, acct., acc.
- Account, narrative, narration, recital are all words applied to different modes of rehearsing a series of events
- Account turns attention not so much to the speaker as to the fact related, and more properly applies to the report of some single event, or a group of incidents taken as whole; for example, a vivid account of a battle, of a shipwreck, of an anecdote, etc.
- A narrative is a continuous story of connected incidents, such as one friend might tell to another; for example, a narrative of the events of a siege, a narrative of one's life, the narrative of the film etc.
- Narration is usually the same as narrative, but is sometimes used to describe the mode of relating events; as, his powers of narration are uncommonly great.
- Recital denotes a series of events drawn out into minute particulars, usually expressing something which peculiarly interests the feelings of the speaker; such as, the recital of one's wrongs, disappointments, sufferings, etc, a piano recital (played without sheet music), a recital of a poem (learned by heart).
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ????? (akaunto)
- ? Swahili: akaunti
Translations
Etymology 2
From Old French acounter, accomptere et al., from a- + conter (“to count”)). Compare count.
Verb
account (third-person singular simple present accounts, present participle accounting, simple past and past participle accounted)
- To provide explanation.
- (obsolete, transitive) To present an account of; to answer for, to justify. [14th-17th c.]
- (intransitive, now rare) To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc. [from 14th c.]
- (transitive) To estimate, consider (something to be as described). [from 14th c.]
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:deem
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, III.8:
- The Pagan Hercules, why was he accounted a hero?
- (intransitive) To consider that. [from 14th c.]
- Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc. [from 15th c.]
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for. [from 16th c.]
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain. [from 16th c.]
- (intransitive) To establish the location for someone. [from 19th c.]
- (intransitive) To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for). [from 19th c.]
- To count.
- (transitive, now rare) To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time). [from 14th c.]
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
- neither the motion of the Moon, whereby moneths are computed; nor of the Sun, whereby years are accounted, consisteth of whole numbers, but admits of fractions, and broken parts, as we have already declared concerning the Moon.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
- (obsolete) To count (up), enumerate. [14th-17th c.]
- (obsolete) To recount, relate (a narrative etc.). [14th-16th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:
- Long worke it were / Here to account the endlesse progeny / Of all the weeds that bud and blossome there [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:
- (transitive, now rare) To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time). [from 14th c.]
Derived terms
Translations
Related terms
- accountable
- accountant
Further reading
- account on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- account (bookkeeping) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- account at OneLook Dictionary Search
- account in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English account.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??k?u?nt/
- Hyphenation: ac?count
Noun
account n (plural accounts, diminutive accountje n)
- a subscription to an electronic service
Related terms
- accountant
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: akun
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English account. Doublet of conto.
Noun
account m (invariable)
- (computing) account
- Synonym: conto
Further reading
- account in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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