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Meaning of accumulate in English

Table of contents
  1. Pronunciation
  2. Verb
    1. Etymology
    2. Definitions
  1. Pronunciation

    /əˈkjum(j)əˌleɪt/

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  1. Verb

    accumulate

    Etymology

    late 15th century: from Latin accumulat-‘heaped up’, from the verb accumulare, from ad-‘to’ + cumulus‘a heap’

    Definitions

    1. get or gather together

    Examples

    • « I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife »
    • « She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis »
    • « She rolled up a small fortune »

    Derived terms

    • accrual
    • accruement
    • accumulation
    • aggregation
    • assemblage
    • assembling
    • collecting
    • collection
    • compilation
    • compiling
    • digest
  2. 2. collect or gather

    Examples

    • « Journals are accumulating in my office »
    • « The work keeps piling up »

    Derived terms

    • accrual
    • accruement
    • accumulation
    • aggregate
    • congeries
    • conglobation
    • conglomeration
    • cumulus
    • gather
    • gathering
    • heap
    • mound
    • pile

Famous quotes

  • « The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down. »
    A. J. Liebling
  • « It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate. »
    Gloria Steinem
  • « As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself. »
    Arthur Schopenhauer
  • « Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web, the denser the experience of time. »
    Joshua Foer
  • « We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest. »
    Georg C. Lichtenberg

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