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So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try to find some little seed crystal of interest, a sentence or an image or an idea, and as much as possible divest myself of any deep ideas about it. And then by this process of revision, mysteriously it starts to accrete meanings as you go.
George Saunders

Meaning of "accrete" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ACCRETE

Back formation from accretion.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ACCRETE

accrete  [əˈkriːt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ACCRETE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Accrete is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb accrete in English.

WHAT DOES ACCRETE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of accrete in the English dictionary

The definition of accrete in the dictionary is to grow or cause to grow together; be or become fused. Other definition of accrete is to make or become bigger, as by addition.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO ACCRETE

PRESENT

Present
I accrete
you accrete
he/she/it accretes
we accrete
you accrete
they accrete
Present continuous
I am accreting
you are accreting
he/she/it is accreting
we are accreting
you are accreting
they are accreting
Present perfect
I have accreted
you have accreted
he/she/it has accreted
we have accreted
you have accreted
they have accreted
Present perfect continuous
I have been accreting
you have been accreting
he/she/it has been accreting
we have been accreting
you have been accreting
they have been accreting
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I accreted
you accreted
he/she/it accreted
we accreted
you accreted
they accreted
Past continuous
I was accreting
you were accreting
he/she/it was accreting
we were accreting
you were accreting
they were accreting
Past perfect
I had accreted
you had accreted
he/she/it had accreted
we had accreted
you had accreted
they had accreted
Past perfect continuous
I had been accreting
you had been accreting
he/she/it had been accreting
we had been accreting
you had been accreting
they had been accreting
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will accrete
you will accrete
he/she/it will accrete
we will accrete
you will accrete
they will accrete
Future continuous
I will be accreting
you will be accreting
he/she/it will be accreting
we will be accreting
you will be accreting
they will be accreting
Future perfect
I will have accreted
you will have accreted
he/she/it will have accreted
we will have accreted
you will have accreted
they will have accreted
Future perfect continuous
I will have been accreting
you will have been accreting
he/she/it will have been accreting
we will have been accreting
you will have been accreting
they will have been accreting
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would accrete
you would accrete
he/she/it would accrete
we would accrete
you would accrete
they would accrete
Conditional continuous
I would be accreting
you would be accreting
he/she/it would be accreting
we would be accreting
you would be accreting
they would be accreting
Conditional perfect
I would have accrete
you would have accrete
he/she/it would have accrete
we would have accrete
you would have accrete
they would have accrete
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been accreting
you would have been accreting
he/she/it would have been accreting
we would have been accreting
you would have been accreting
they would have been accreting
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you accrete
we let´s accrete
you accrete
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to accrete
Past participle
accreted
Present Participle
accreting
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ACCRETE


backstreet
ˈbækˌstriːt
calcrete
ˈkælkriːt
concrete
ˈkɒnkriːt
Crete
kriːt
decreet
dɪˈkriːt
discreet
dɪˈskriːt
discrete
dɪsˈkriːt
excrete
ɪkˈskriːt
ferroconcrete
ˌfɛrəʊˈkɒŋkriːt
greet
ɡriːt
high-street
ˈhaɪˌstriːt
indiscreet
ˌɪndɪˈskriːt
indiscrete
ˌɪndɪˈskriːt
marguerite
ˌmɑːɡəˈriːt
retreat
rɪˈtriːt
screet
skriːt
secrete
sɪˈkriːt
street
striːt
Tikrit
tɪˈkriːt
treat
triːt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ACCRETE

accredit
accreditable
accreditation
accreditation officer
accredited
accrescence
accrescent
accretion
accretion disc
accretionary
accretionary prism
accretionary wedge
accretive
accrew
Accrington
accroides
accruable
accrual
accrual rate
accrue

WORDS THAT END LIKE ACCRETE

air-entrained concrete
Albacete
athlete
compete
complete
delete
grossierete
incomplete
Masorete
Massorete
mete
obsolete
Pete
precast concrete
prestressed concrete
reinforced concrete
rete
semiterete
terete
tete

Synonyms and antonyms of accrete in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «accrete» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ACCRETE

Find out the translation of accrete to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of accrete from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «accrete» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

共生
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

accrete
570 millions of speakers

English

accrete
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

उगना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ملتحم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сросшиеся
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

accrete
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জুড়ে যাত্তয়া
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Accrete
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Akrih
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

accrete
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

共生の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

늘리다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nglumpukake
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thêm vào
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

திரட்டிக்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Accrete
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

artmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

crescere insieme
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

accrete
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

зрощені
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ACCRETe
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ACCRETe
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Klikt
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

växa ihop
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

accrete
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of accrete

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ACCRETE»

The term «accrete» is regularly used and occupies the 89.506 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ACCRETE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about accrete

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QUOTES WITH «ACCRETE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word accrete.
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George Saunders
So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try to find some little seed crystal of interest, a sentence or an image or an idea, and as much as possible divest myself of any deep ideas about it. And then by this process of revision, mysteriously it starts to accrete meanings as you go.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ACCRETE»

Discover the use of accrete in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to accrete and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Grid-enabled astrophysics. Ediz. inglese
The particle will accrete onto the halo if it is sufficiently close to it at the collapse time, mimicking the construction of FOF halos. We use the Zel'dovich velocities vc [9] as defined earlier to compute the distance, at the collapse time, between the ...
L. Benacchio, F. Pasian, 2007
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Protostars and Planets V
Stars that accrete slightly more due to their initial mass or proximity to more gas ( Larson, 1992) increase their gravitational attraction and therefore their ability to accrete. The depletion of the gas reservoir means that there is less for the ...
Bo Reipurth, David Jewitt, Klaus Keil, 2007
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Looking Into Pictures: An Interdisciplinary Approach to ...
At night, insects swarming in a beam of light accrete and delete at the beam's margins, contrasting with dark buildings in the background. In a 1930s gangster movie set in Alcatraz, a spotlight running across a surface such a brick wall at night ...
Heiko Hecht, Robert Schwartz, Margaret Atherton, 2003
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Introduction to Spanish Private Law: Facing the Social and ...
3.5.2. Capacity. to. inherit. Right. to. accrete. Representation. Unfitness. Rules defining capacity to inherit are purely and simply personal. Thus, according to Article 744 Civil Code only persons lacking legal capacity by law are denied the full ...
Teresa Rodriguez de las Heras Ballell, 2009
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Growing Black Holes: Accretion in a Cosmological Context: ...
We find that Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies accrete at moderately super- Eddington rates. This was already suggested with the discovery of extreme soft X -ray excesses with ROSAT, and now can be quantitatively measured with XMM- Newton ...
Andrea Merloni, Sergei V. Nayakshin, Rashid A. Sunyaev, 2005
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Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 14th ...
System Only Human/Machine Human Only System Task User Select Source Formulate Query Extract Examine Accrete Reflect (Re)Define Recognise Execute Organisational Analytical 11 1 3 7 10 2 6 9 4 5 8 system in four processes: source  ...
Mounia Lalmas, Joemon Jose, Andreas Rauber, 2010
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Planet Formation: Theory, Observations, and Experiments
In this picture, protostars are born primarily in groups and clusters and accrete competitively for the molecular gas (e.g. Bonnell et al., 1997; Klessen et al., 1998) . The accretion onto them is terminated when they are ejected from the dense gas  ...
Hubert Klahr, Wolfgang Brandner, 2006
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The Interplay Among Black Holes, Stars and ISM in Galactic ...
Filippenko, & Sargent 1997) likely accrete with m = 0.01, while the 30% of the luminous galaxy population that are LINERs likely accrete with m = 10~2 — 10~4 , based on estimates of / (Ho 1999). If all luminous galaxies go through periodic ...
Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann, Luis C. Ho, Henrique R. Schmitt, 2004
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Accretion Processes in Astrophysics
As a consequence, wind-accreting HMXBs tend to be fainter than those that accrete by atmospheric Roche lobe overflow. Be X-ray binaries A third class of HMXBs are Be X-ray binaries, where the mass donor is a Be star. Be stars are rapidly ...
Ignacio González Martínez-País, Tariq Shahbaz, Jorge Casares Velázquez, 2014
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JavaScript Allongé: A strong cup of functions, objects, ...
Here's another travesty: var a = [1,2,3], accrete = a.concat; accrete([4,5]) //=> Gobbledygook! We get the result of concatenating [4,5] onto an arraycontainingthe globalenvironment. Notwhat we want! Behold: var contextualize = function (fn, ...
Reginald Braithwaite, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ACCRETE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term accrete is used in the context of the following news items.
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Arabian Cup to draw field of 10 horses today at final races at …
Tough if handles rail Monsajem Accrete…Not a bad run over track Monsajem Heigh…Ran second vs. less here. 4. Guyfromtheskyfive…Will sit ... «Pleasanton Weekly, Jul 15»
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DVDanger: Horror Roundup: The best and the rest of the month's …
That's exacerbated by multiple plot threads, as characters accrete, and a police detective (Marta Belmonte) with her own connection to the pair ... «Austin Chronicle, Jul 15»
3
This Beta Pictoris Model is Hypnotizing, Beautiful, and Full of Science
Its youth means it still has an active disk of debris with endless collisions as rock and ice accrete into planets or grind into ever-finer fragments. «io9, Jul 15»
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Same-sex marriage: Will conservative religious colleges lose tax …
“But I think that over time, they will accrete and they will grow and develop, and I think that schools still resisting acceptance at the very least are ... «Yahoo News, Jul 15»
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How Certain Galaxies Act as Flickering Lamps
“When the massive black holes in galaxy centers accrete, they become visible as quasars or AGN. The energy liberated by accretion episodes ... «From Quarks to Quasars, Jun 15»
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Mystery Of How Planets Form Around Young Stars May Have Been …
... of dust in the disk of matter surrounding a developing protostar begin to attract each other and accrete in bodies that eventually become large ... «Tech Times, Jun 15»
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Charter School Growth, Reality vs. Prediction
While it is possible that charter schools will not accrete regulation like other public schools have as they begin to enroll a larger share of ... «Cato Institute, Jun 15»
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How the mighty car companies may merge
All the others have fallen into divestment, and it is their swirling remains which may now be looking to accrete into new corporate wholes. VW is ... «Irish Times, Jun 15»
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Paccar: Primed For Activism (PCAR)
It has a large and consistent cash balance that is not being invested or being redeployed to accrete value. Activists could make a case for the ... «Seeking Alpha, Jun 15»
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LLTP Shares Attractive On Rolling NDA Submission - 300 Percent in …
... 'Lightlake Partner De-Risks Drug Platform; Implies Shares Trade at 1/4 Fair Value' and 'FDA Fast-Track Should Accrete Significant Value to ... «Baystreet.ca, Jun 15»

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