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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
accelerate
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the pace quickens/accelerates
▪ The pace of change is quickening.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
away
▪ Burgess accelerated away and police followed.
▪ He slid out and slammed the door, and Vora accelerated away.
▪ They could leave him gawping from the pavement while they accelerated away.
▪ The door slammed behind them and she listened, rigid, as the car purred into life and accelerated away.
▪ She changed up and accelerated away.
▪ The older Schumacher survived a spectacular collision while accelerating away from the start.
▪ He was driving a lorry and accelerated away, escaping with minor injuries.
dramatically
▪ Indeed, since the First World War, the development of archaeology has accelerated dramatically.
greatly
▪ Such techniques can greatly accelerate the development and propagation of new and uniform strains and varieties of plant.
▪ It served as a catalyst which greatly accelerated the pace of change within the Empire.
▪ Had they done so they would certainly have greatly accelerated the rate at which they colonised the land.
rapidly
▪ Without the trees, soil erosion in the area accelerated rapidly.
■ NOUN
change
▪ It served as a catalyst which greatly accelerated the pace of change within the Empire.
▪ Rather than stopping change, it accelerated change.
▪ In spite of victory, Britain's participation in two world wars accelerated social changes, altering both social attitudes and power relations.
▪ The accelerating effect of changes in participation on changes in equipment demand is clear to see.
▪ Revolutions only succeed in Britain if they pretend to be fondly restoring the past, not accelerating change.
decline
▪ Both, in fact, are at fault; both are helping to accelerate boxing's decline.
▪ Barber said the accelerating annual rate of decline in members reaches from villages to cities.
development
▪ The year's purpose is to accelerate the development and provision of national and international communications.
▪ Such techniques can greatly accelerate the development and propagation of new and uniform strains and varieties of plant.
▪ The task of the cultural designer is to accelerate the development of practices which bring the remote consequences of behavior into play.
▪ The pace of urbanization accelerated as did the development of civil society visible before 1905.
▪ Objective: to promote international trade, particularly that of developing countries, with a view to accelerating economic development.
▪ The social repercussions of Emancipation and accelerated economic development gave rise to a range of diverse pressures upon the regime.
▪ This point was rapidly settled when folic acid was shown not to check but to accelerate the development of certain leukaemias.
growth
▪ Otherwise, while growth will accelerate, body shape may be adversely affected.
▪ Mainstream economists profess much puzzlement over the failure of the rate of productivity growth to accelerate so far in this decade.
▪ Population growth accelerated only after 1750.
▪ Suppose the level of cereal production remains the same over the years while the rate of population growth accelerates.
inflation
▪ If workers believe inflation is likely to accelerate, they will demand high enough wages to compensate for expected increases in prices.
▪ Forty-four percent of those surveyed thought the rate of inflation would accelerate in the year ahead....
▪ Then inflation started to accelerate and house prices fell back.
▪ None of the standard private economic forecasting services were suggesting that inflation would accelerate either.
▪ Slow economic growth reduces the likelihood inflation will accelerate and erode the value of bonds' fixed payments.
▪ In the rest of the world inflation accelerates when currency values fall.
▪ Signs the economy is recovering hurt bonds by sparking concern that inflation may accelerate, eroding bonds' fixed payments.
▪ Indications the economy may be picking up steam hurt bonds by sparking concern inflation may accelerate, eroding bonds' fixed payments.
pace
▪ About seven more years had been added to expectation of life up to 1901, after which the pace accelerated sharply.
▪ The pace of urbanization accelerated as did the development of civil society visible before 1905.
▪ The pace of change which accelerated in the 1980s would continue unabated in the 1990s.
▪ From then onward the pace of change accelerated.
▪ In the sixties the pace accelerated: 520,000 enrolled in the autumn of 1967.
process
▪ The incorporation of microelectronics in products and manufacturing processes is likely to accelerate this trend.
▪ But the process has accelerated under Albright.
▪ It fades hair's natural pigment and the process is accelerated in colour-treated hair.
▪ This process was accelerated in the 1860s during the Civil War.
▪ The process had accelerated by the autumn into revolution.
▪ After Stonewall this process sharply accelerated, creating a radical new medical situation in the gay world.
▪ As the economic climate gradually improves, this process will be accelerated through an effective partnership between the public and private sectors.
▪ The process of merging accelerated during the period we shall be looking at.
rate
▪ Meanwhile the embargo has been eroding at an accelerating rate.
▪ We found that crying babies elicited accelerated rates on all three measures, while a comfortable baby elicited a deceleration.
▪ Dosing farm animals with antibiotics because they accelerate their growth rates can not be acceptable practice.
▪ Consequently there is a change in excitation and the motor starts to accelerate at a rate dictated by the load parameters.
▪ At least 31 party-goers were treated at local hospitals for symptoms including nausea and accelerated heart rates.
▪ Had they done so they would certainly have greatly accelerated the rate at which they colonised the land.
▪ Over a long period, however, the continued leaks could accelerate the rate of deterioration of the concrete.
speed
▪ Maintain the correct stance and the ensemble will accelerate to flying speed.
▪ Out to a distance of seventy-five kilometers, windows are blown in and shards of glass are accelerated to high speeds.
▪ Your victim would catch on before accelerating to a speed likely to be fatal.
▪ The train had just pulled out of the Twenty-third Street station and was accelerating to its cruising speed.
trend
▪ The next stage of satellite development will accelerate this trend rapidly.
▪ The incorporation of microelectronics in products and manufacturing processes is likely to accelerate this trend.
■ VERB
begin
▪ The tempo of his actions begins to accelerate.
▪ I began an accelerating paddle rhythm....
▪ From the 1970s onwards, however, the moves began to accelerate and involved quite different factors.
▪ In the ACCs, the money supply began to accelerate at the beginning of 1970.
▪ Accordingly, he had restrained his own consumption just as Cunningham's had begun to accelerate out of control.
expect
▪ At that point, its accumulation of knowledge is expected to accelerate sharply.
▪ As might be expected this is accelerated by heat, making cold storage essential.
▪ The improvement is expected to accelerate a booming industry.
▪ And she is expected to accelerate restructuring.
help
▪ Both, in fact, are at fault; both are helping to accelerate boxing's decline.
start
▪ I know that orchestras, when they see a lot of black notes, usually start to accelerate.
▪ It started to accelerate in the last six months.
▪ Due to the action of this force the couch will start to accelerate upwards.
▪ To get into the correct impact position, the clubhead must start to accelerate right from the commencement of the downswing.
▪ Like when you first started accelerating: the beams still hit the bullseye - more or less.
▪ Consequently there is a change in excitation and the motor starts to accelerate at a rate dictated by the load parameters.
▪ The two forces acting on the spring are not equal, which is why the spring starts to accelerate upwards.
▪ The forces on him are no longer equal and he also starts to accelerate upwards.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The Ferrari can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 6.3 seconds.
▪ The truck's wheels skidded on the snow as the driver accelerated forward.
▪ Zebtech is accelerating its cost-cutting program by cutting 2,500 jobs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As the 1860s drew to a close, Kansas effectively put its violent heritage behind; change accelerated by leaps and bounds.
▪ As you accelerated, you would see the Universe itself appear to squash up in the direction of flight.
▪ At the same time Greebo shot past Agnes, accelerating.
▪ Effects on family life probably include contrary tendencies - accelerating or delaying decisions to start families, for example.
▪ Mainstream economists profess much puzzlement over the failure of the rate of productivity growth to accelerate so far in this decade.
▪ Mr Henley has accelerated his sale of shares over the past year.
▪ Under generally accepted accounting principles, companies may use straight-line or one of the accelerated methods of depreciation for financial accounting purposes.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accelerate

Accelerate \Ac*cel"er*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accelerated; p. pr. & vb. n. Accelerating.] [L. acceleratus, p. p. of accelerare; ad + celerare to hasten; celer quick. See Celerity.]

  1. To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.

  2. To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc.

  3. To hasten, as the occurence of an event; as, to accelerate our departure.

    Accelerated motion (Mech.), motion with a continually increasing velocity.

    Accelerating force, the force which causes accelerated motion.
    --Nichol.

    Syn: To hasten; expedite; quicken; dispatch; forward; advance; further.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
accelerate

1520s, from Latin acceleratus, past participle of accelerare "to hasten, quicken," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + celerare "hasten," from celer "swift" (see celerity). Related: Accelerated; accelerating.

Wiktionary
accelerate

  1. (context rare English) accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried. v

  2. 1 (label en transitive) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of. 2 (label en transitive) To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.

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WordNet
accelerate

  1. v. move faster; "The car accelerated" [syn: speed up, speed, quicken] [ant: decelerate]

  2. cause to move faster; "He accelerated the car" [syn: speed, speed up] [ant: decelerate]

Wikipedia
Accelerate (R.E.M. album)

Accelerate is the fourteenth studio album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released on March 31, 2008 in Europe, and on April 1 in North America. Produced with Jacknife Lee, Accelerate was intended as a departure from the 2004 album Around the Sun. R.E.M. previewed several of the album's tracks during a five-night residency at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, and recorded the album in a nine-week schedule.

The album received a warm reception from music critics, earning a 79/100 rating on Metacritic. Reviewers often complimented the aggressive, purposeful sound of the songs, with Q magazine critic Keith Cameron stating that "Accelerate is the sound of a band having enjoyed a good word with themselves—and us."

Accelerate (disambiguation)

In general, to accelerate is to change velocity or increase speed; see Acceleration.

Accelerate may also refer to:

  • Accelerate (Jump5 album), a 2003 pop album
  • Accelerate (R.E.M. album), a 2008 alternative rock album
  • Accelerate (Peter Andre), a 2010 a pop album
  • USS Accelerate (ARS-30), a salvage ship
Accelerate (Jump5 album)

Accelerate is the fourth album by the Christian pop group Jump5. It was released on October 7, 2003. The album demonstrated the group's shift towards a pop/rock sound, and was also the first album on which a member of the group had writing credits. Half of the album was made up of covers, including " Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves and " Shining Star" by Earth, Wind & Fire. The group's cover of Sister Sledge's " We Are Family" was used as the theme for the Radio Disney Family Pledge Initiative.

It charted at #150 on the Billboard Top 200 and at #8 on the Top Christian Albums charts.

Accelerate (Peter Andre album)

Accelerate is the seventh album released by British singer-songwriter Peter Andre.

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Usage examples of "accelerate".

Sword has exempted the transaction from taxes in order to accelerate the buy-out.

All I wanted was a drive that would let us accelerate at multiple gees without flattening the passengers.

To accelerate at thirty-two gee, the capsule must be about twenty meters from the disk to keep effective gravity inside to one gee.

Mersenne had immediately gone to general quarters and orderedIllustrious to accelerate as rapidly as possible away from the other ships.

It would accelerate to relativistic velocities between Magaria and Zanshaa, then broadcast its coded contents to the capital.

But they had come in on the space drive, and had gotten fairly close before the gravitational field had drained the power from the main coil, and it was not until the space field had broken that they had started to accelerate toward the star.

George nor Gracie accelerates, their perspectives are on precisely equal footing.

A single laser-guided missile dropped from the racks and accelerated at four thousand gravities.

There is no way of distinguishing an accelerated motion from a gravitational field force, right?

Grounders never got used to the fact that in orbit, you decelerated by firing your rockets to move into a higher, slower orbit, and accelerated by using your retros to drop into a lower, faster orbit.

Dane saw the gray of Shver skin, black-clothed, and the tension accelerated into danger.

Naxid missiles, Martinez realized, accelerated to relativistic velocities outside the system, then fired through the wormhole along the route they knew Chenforce had to take.

Three and a half days later the enemy raced past Zanshaa without firing a missile at Sula or anyone else, and accelerated on a path for the Vandrith gas giant.

Even under the accelerated building schedules produced in wartime, it would have taken ages to put one of those giants together.

The observations of such individuals will be more complicated to analyze than those of constant-velocity observers, whose motion is more serene, but nevertheless we can ask whether there is some way of taming this complexity and bringing accelerated motion squarely into our newfound understanding of space and time.