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Meaning of "accumulate" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ACCUMULATE

From Latin accumulātus, past participle of accumulāre to heap up, from cumulus a heap.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ACCUMULATE

accumulate  [əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ACCUMULATE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Accumulate 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 accumulate in English.

WHAT DOES ACCUMULATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Accumulation

Accumulation may refer to: ▪ in finance ▪ Accumulation function, a mathematical function defined in terms of the ratio future value to present value ▪ Capital accumulation, the gathering of objects of value ▪ in science and engineering ▪ Glacier ice accumulation, an element in the glacier mass balance formula ▪ Tree accumulation, in computer science the process of accumulating data placed in tree nodes according to their tree structure ▪ Accumulate, a family of functions to analyze a recursive data structure in computer science ▪ in arts and entertainment ▪ Accumulation: None, a 2002 lo-fi album...

Definition of accumulate in the English dictionary

The definition of accumulate in the dictionary is to gather or become gathered together in an increasing quantity; amass; collect.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO ACCUMULATE

PRESENT

Present
I accumulate
you accumulate
he/she/it accumulates
we accumulate
you accumulate
they accumulate
Present continuous
I am accumulating
you are accumulating
he/she/it is accumulating
we are accumulating
you are accumulating
they are accumulating
Present perfect
I have accumulated
you have accumulated
he/she/it has accumulated
we have accumulated
you have accumulated
they have accumulated
Present perfect continuous
I have been accumulating
you have been accumulating
he/she/it has been accumulating
we have been accumulating
you have been accumulating
they have been accumulating
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 accumulated
you accumulated
he/she/it accumulated
we accumulated
you accumulated
they accumulated
Past continuous
I was accumulating
you were accumulating
he/she/it was accumulating
we were accumulating
you were accumulating
they were accumulating
Past perfect
I had accumulated
you had accumulated
he/she/it had accumulated
we had accumulated
you had accumulated
they had accumulated
Past perfect continuous
I had been accumulating
you had been accumulating
he/she/it had been accumulating
we had been accumulating
you had been accumulating
they had been accumulating
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

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

CONDITIONAL

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

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you accumulate
we let´s accumulate
you accumulate
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to accumulate
Past participle
accumulated
Present Participle
accumulating
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 ACCUMULATE


calculate
ˈkælkjʊˌleɪt
circulate
ˈsɜːkjʊˌleɪt
coagulate
kəʊˈæɡjʊˌleɪt
congratulate
kənˈɡrætjʊˌleɪt
cumulate
ˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt
ejaculate
ɪˈdʒækjʊˌleɪt
emulate
ˈɛmjʊˌleɪt
encapsulate
ɪnˈkæpsjʊˌleɪt
formulate
ˈfɔːmjʊˌleɪt
insulate
ˈɪnsjʊˌleɪt
manipulate
məˈnɪpjʊˌleɪt
modulate
ˈmɒdjʊˌleɪt
populate
ˈpɒpjʊˌleɪt
postulate
ˈpɒstjʊˌleɪt
reformulate
riːˈfɔːmjʊˌleɪt
regulate
ˈrɛɡjʊˌleɪt
simulate
ˈsɪmjʊˌleɪt
speculate
ˈspɛkjʊˌleɪt
stimulate
ˈstɪmjʊˌleɪt
stipulate
ˈstɪpjʊˌleɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ACCUMULATE

accubation
accultural
acculturate
acculturation
acculturational
acculturative
accumbency
accumbent
accumulable
accumulation
accumulation point
accumulative
accumulatively
accumulativeness
accumulator
accuracies
accuracy
accurate
accurately
accurateness

WORDS THAT END LIKE ACCUMULATE

absquatulate
ambulate
articulate
chocolate
consulate
copulate
demodulate
depopulate
deregulate
emasculate
geniculate
immaculate
matriculate
ovulate
particulate
recirculate
repopulate
reticulate
triangulate
undulate
ungulate

Synonyms and antonyms of accumulate in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ACCUMULATE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «accumulate» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of accumulate

Translation of «accumulate» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ACCUMULATE

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

Translator English - Chinese

积聚
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

acumular
570 millions of speakers

English

accumulate
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जमा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تتراكم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

накапливаются
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

acumular
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্তূপাকার করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

accumuler
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Berkumpul
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

ansammeln
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ためる/たまる
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

> 늘어나다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nglumpukake
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tích lũy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குவிக்க
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

संचित करणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

biriktirmek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

accumulare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

gromadzić
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

накопичуються
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

acumula
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συσσωρεύονται
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ophoop
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ackumulera
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

akkumulere
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of accumulate

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ACCUMULATE»

The term «accumulate» is very widely used and occupies the 20.994 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of accumulate
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «accumulate».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ACCUMULATE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «accumulate» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «accumulate» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 QUOTES WITH «ACCUMULATE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word accumulate.
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P. T. Barnum
The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.
2
Arthur Bloch
Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.
3
Roz Chast
Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate.
4
Jim Cooper
It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.
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Jim Cooper
Any politician who's ever been re-elected knows that friends come and go; enemies accumulate.
6
Stephen Dobyns
I like it to be quiet, and it usually occurs in the morning. There are three or four places in my house where I can write and I like to keep moving around. The moment I find myself falling into a necessary routine, I change it. I'd rather not accumulate superstitions.
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Aubrey de Grey
Basically, the body does have a vast amount of inbuilt anti-ageing machinery; it's just not 100% comprehensive, so it allows a small number of different types of molecular and cellular damage to happen and accumulate.
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Lou Harrison
We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with.
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Junius
One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.
10
Lee Krasner
The Jumble Shop would be one place where we'd sometimes accumulate down in the Village. I think it might be just a place that's unknown that was right around the corner from wherever it was that we met.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ACCUMULATE»

Discover the use of accumulate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to accumulate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Fortunes for Workingmen: a new and sure way to accumulate ...
As I view the matter: God has placed the desire to accumulate property so strongly in the nature of every man, that he may provide himself and family with the means of a comfortable existence, that I feel confident that I am engaged in a good ...
A. T. PECK, 1867
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Double Your Money: How You Can Accumulate Immense Wealth by ...
Here are some of the things you will learn in this brand new topic of financial education: · the simple secret of becoming rich - what 90% of the people don't know and will never find out· why the poor remain poor for all of their lives· ...
Andrew Chia, 2010
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16'th Annual Tcl Association Tcl/Tk Conference Proceedings
... 0 method accumulate x {incr acc $x} } % time { OCMCDi obj obj accumulate 1; obj accumulate 2; obj accumulate 3; obj accumulate 4 obj accumulate 5; obj accumulate 6; obj accumulate 7; obj accumulate 8 obj accumulate 9; obj accumulate ...
Ronald Fox, Tcl Association, 2009
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C++ Primer Plus
But look at this function call: display(accumulate(team, two)); What's going on here? Let's follow the structure object team . First, team is passed to accumulate() as its first argument.That means that the target object in accumulate() really is team ...
Stephen Prata, 2011
5
Kiplinger's invest your way to wealth
This updated edition of an acclaimed investment guide offers proven strategies that allow ordinary people to accumulate extraordinary wealth.
Theodore J. Miller, 1994
6
C++ and Object-Oriented Numeric Computing for Scientists and ...
7.6.1 Accumulate The function template accumulate() calculates the sum of the elements in a sequence given a starting and an ending pointer (or iterator; see § 10.1.2). and an initial sum. A general binary operation, instead of summation, can  ...
Daoqi Yang, 2001
7
Digital Signal Processing Using MATLAB & Wavelets
Accumulate. Cells. A Multiply Accumulate Cell (MAC) is a regular structure that performs a multiplication and an addition. In hardware design, regularity is important. Figure 3.15 shows a multiply accumulate cell. As its name implies, it performs ...
Michael Weeks, 2010
8
Effective STL: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of the ...
You might not be familiar with accumulate, because, unlike most algorithms, it doesn't live in <algorithm>. Instead, it's located with three other “numeric algorithms” in <numeric>. (The three others are inner_product, adjacent_difference, and ...
Scott Meyers, 2001
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OpenMP in a New Era of Parallelism: 4th International ...
Now, let us consider parallelizing accumulate using OpenMP. This task might seem straightforward since accumulate is comprised of a for loop that performs a reduction operation. However, the loop is not in the canonical form that is re- quired ...
Rudi Eigenmann, Bronis R. de Supinski, 2008
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C++ Primer
A number of the algorithms read, but never write to, the elements in their input range. find is one such algorithm. Another simple, read-only algorithm is accumulate, which is defined in the numeric header. Assuming vec is a vector of int values, ...
Stanley B. Lippman, Josée Lajoie, Barbara E. Moo, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ACCUMULATE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term accumulate is used in the context of the following news items.
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Accumulate Jubilant Food at around Rs 1800-1830: Uttekar
Sacchitanand Uttekar of Motilal Oswal Financial Services is of the view that one may accumulate Jubilant Foodworks at around Rs 1800-1830. «Moneycontrol.com, Jul 15»
2
Accumulate Bajaj Finance, M&M Fin dark horse: Devang Mehta
Devang Mehta of Anand Rathi Fin Svcs recommends accumulating Bajaj Finance and feels that M&M Financial Services is the dark horse ... «Moneycontrol.com, Jul 15»
3
Johnson Rice Lowers Tuesday Morning to Accumulate (TUES)
Tuesday Morning Co. logo Johnson Rice cut shares of Tuesday Morning (NASDAQ:TUES) from a buy rating to an accumulate rating in a ... «The Legacy, Jul 15»
4
Accumulate eClerx Services; target of Rs 1780: Emkay
Brokerage house Emkay Global Financial Services is bullish on eClerx Services and has recommended accumulate rating on the stock with a ... «Moneycontrol.com, Jul 15»
5
Tuesday Morning Downgraded to "Accumulate" at Johnson Rice …
Tuesday Morning Co. logo Johnson Rice downgraded shares of Tuesday Morning (NASDAQ:TUES) from a buy rating to an accumulate rating in a research note ... «Dakota Financial News, Jul 15»
6
Accumulate Infosys on dips, says Neeraj Dewan
Neeraj Deewan, director at Quantum Securities told CNBC-TV18, "Seeing the commentary and hearing the commentary and the challenges ... «Moneycontrol.com, Jun 15»
7
Accumulate Tata Steel, advises Ambareesh Baliga
Accumulate Tata Steel, advises Ambareesh Baliga ... Baliga, Independent Market Expert is of the view that one may accumulate Tata Steel. «Moneycontrol.com, Jun 15»
8
Accumulate banking stocks on declines: Edelweiss
Accumulate banking stocks on declines: Edelweiss 30 Jun 2015, 11:05AM IST. Copy URL. Embed. Nitin Jain of Edelweiss Financial Services says that the ... «Economic Times, Jun 15»
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'Accumulate' Apcotex Industries; target at Rs 539: CD Equisearch
CD Equisearch has recommended 'Accumulate' on Apcotex Industries with target price of Rs 539 in its report. Commenting on the investment ... «Myiris.com, Jun 15»
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Brookfield Asset Management still a long-term accumulate
The evidence at hand led to a long term accumulate recommendation. As things developed, that was the right call. The stock continued to move ... «The Globe and Mail, Jun 15»

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