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Accumbent: Definition and part of speech

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Accumbent

  1. n. One who reclines at table.
  2. a. Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.
  3. a. Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Accumulate: Definition and part of speech

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Accumulate

  1. a. Collected; accumulated.
  2. v. t. To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.
  3. v. i. To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Accumulation: Definition and part of speech

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Accumulation

  1. n. The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
  2. n. The act of accumulating, the state of being accumulated, or that which is accumulated; as, an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, of honors.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Accumulative: Definition and part of speech

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Accumulative

  1. a. Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass; cumulative; additional.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Accumulator: Definition and part of speech

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Accumulator

  1. n. A system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging.
  2. n. One who, or that which, accumulates, collects, or amasses.
  3. n. An apparatus by means of which energy or power can be stored, such as the cylinder or tank for storing water for hydraulic elevators, the secondary or storage battery used for accumulating the energy of electrical charges, etc.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.