Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A - Page 14
Accubation (n.) The act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals.
Accumb (v. i.) To recline, as at table. [Obs.] -- Bailey.
Accumbency (n.) The state of being accumbent or reclining. [R.]
Accumbent (a.) 橫臥的；【植】依伏的 Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.
The Roman . . . accumbent posture in eating. -- Arbuthnot.
Accumbent (a.) (Bot.) Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf. -- Gray.
Accumbent cotyledons have their edges placed against the caulicle. -- Eaton.
Accumbent (n.) One who reclines at table.
Accumbent (a.) Lying down; in a position of comfort or rest [syn: accumbent, decumbent, recumbent].
Accumber (v. t.) To encumber. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Accumulated (imp. & p. p.) of Accumulate.
Accumulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accumulate.
Accumulate (v. t.) 積累，積聚 To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.
Syn: To collect; pile up; store; amass; gather; aggregate; heap together; hoard.
Accumulate (v. i.) 積累，堆積 To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. -- Goldsmith.
Accumulate (a.) Collected; accumulated. -- Bacon.
Accumulate (v.) Get or gather together; "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" [syn: {roll up}, {collect}, {accumulate}, {pile up}, {amass}, {compile}, {hoard}].
Accumulate (v.) Collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up" [syn: {accumulate}, {cumulate}, {conglomerate}, {pile up}, {gather}, {amass}].
Accumulate (v.) (C2) [ T ] 積累；積聚；積攢 To collect a large number of things over a long period of time.
// As people accumulate more wealth, they tend to spend a greater proportion of their incomes.
// The company said the debt was accumulated during its acquisition of nine individual businesses.
// We've accumulated so much rubbish over the years.
Accumulate (v.) (C2) [ I ] 逐漸增加；逐漸升高 To gradually increase in number or amount.
// A thick layer of dust had accumulated in the room.
// If you don't go through the papers on your desk on a regular basis, they just keep on accumulating.
Accumulation (n.) 積累；積聚；堆積 [U]；累積物；積聚的一堆 [C]；（息金、利潤帶來的）資本增值 [U] 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.
Accumulation (n.) (Law) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
{Accumulation of energy} or {power}, The storing of energy by means of weights lifted or masses put in motion; electricity stored.
{An accumulation of degrees} (Eng. Univ.), The taking of several together, or at smaller intervals than usual or than is allowed by the rules.
Compare: Energy
Energy (n.) 活力，幹勁 [U]；精力，能力 [U] [P]；【物】能，能量 [U] Internal or inherent power; capacity of acting, operating, or producing an effect, whether exerted or not; as, men possessing energies may suffer them to lie inactive.
The great energies of nature are known to us only by their effects. -- Paley.
Energy (n.) Power efficiently and forcibly exerted; vigorous or effectual operation; as, the energy of a magistrate.
Energy (n.) Strength of expression; force of utterance; power to impress the mind and arouse the feelings; life; spirit; -- said of speech, language, words, style; as, a style full of energy.
Energy (n.) (Physics) Capacity for performing work.
Note: The kinetic energy of a body is the energy it has in virtue of being in motion. It is measured by one half of the product of the mass of each element of the body multiplied by the square of the velocity of the element, relative to some given body or point. The available kinetic energy of a material system unconnected with any other system is that energy which is due to the motions of the parts of the system relative to its center of mass. The potential energy of a body or system is that energy which is not kinetic; -- energy due to configuration. Kinetic energy is sometimes called actual energy. Kinetic energy is exemplified in the vis viva of moving bodies, in heat, electric currents, etc.; potential energy, in a bent spring, or a body suspended a given distance above the earth and acted on by gravity.
{Accumulation}, {Conservation}, {Correlation}, & {Degradation of energy}, etc. (Physics) See under {Accumulation}, {Conservation}, {Correlation}, etc.
Syn: Force; power; potency; vigor; strength; spirit; efficiency; resolution.
Energy (n.) (Physics) A thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs; "energy can take a wide variety of forms" [syn: energy, free energy].
Energy (n.) Forceful exertion; "he plays tennis with great energy"; "he's full of zip" [syn: energy, vigor, vigour, zip].
Energy (n.) Enterprising or ambitious drive; "Europeans often laugh at American energy" [syn: energy, push, get-up-and-go]
Energy (n.) An imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); "his writing conveys great energy"; "a remarkable muscularity of style" [syn: energy, muscularity, vigor, vigour, vim].
Energy (n.) A healthy capacity for vigorous activity; "jogging works off my excess energy"; "he seemed full of vim and vigor" [syn: energy, vim, vitality].
Energy (n.) Any source of usable power; "the DOE is responsible for maintaining the energy policy".
Energy (n.) The federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977 [syn: Department of Energy, Energy Department, Energy, DOE].
Accumulation (n.) An increase by natural growth or addition [syn: {accretion}, {accumulation}].
Accumulation (n.) Several things grouped together or considered as a whole [syn: {collection}, {aggregation}, {accumulation}, {assemblage}].
Accumulation (n.) The act of accumulating [syn: {accumulation}, {accrual}, {accruement}].
Accumulation (n.) (Finance) Profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation.
Accumulation (n.) [ U or C ] (C2) 積累；積聚；積攢 An amount of something that has been collected.
// Despite this accumulation of evidence, the government persisted in doing nothing.
// Accumulations of sand can be formed by the action of waves on coastal beaches.
Accumulative (a.) Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass; cumulative; additional.
Accumulative (a.) (Formal) 積聚的，累積的 Gradually increasing in number or amount.
// The accumulative effect of many infections.
Accumulator (n.) 積聚者，蓄能器，蓄電池 One who, or that which, accumulates, collects, or amasses.
Accumulator (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.
Accumulator (n.) A system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging.
Accuracy (n.) 正確（性）；準確（性）[U] The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy.
The professed end [of logic] is to teach men to think, to judge, and to reason, with precision and accuracy. -- Reid.
The accuracy with which the piston fits the sides. -- Lardner.
Accuracy (n.) The quality of being near to the true value; "he was beginning to doubt the accuracy of his compass"; "the lawyer questioned the truth of my account" [syn: {accuracy}, {truth}] [ant: {inaccuracy}].
Accuracy (n.) (Mathematics) The number of significant figures given in a number; "the atomic clock enabled scientists to measure time with much greater accuracy".
Accurate (a.) 準確的；精確的 [（+in/ at）] In exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc.
Accurate (a.) Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful. [Obs.]
Those conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below. -- Bacon.
Syn: Correct; exact; just; nice; particular.
Usage: {Accurate}, {Correct}, {Exact}, {Precise}. We speak of a thing as correct with reference to some rule or standard of comparison; as, a correct account, a correct likeness, a man of correct deportment. We speak of a thing as accurate with reference to the care bestowed upon its execution, and the increased correctness to be expected therefrom; as, an accurate statement, an accurate detail of particulars. We speak of a thing as exact with reference to that perfected state of a thing in which there is no defect and no redundance; as, an exact coincidence, the exact truth, an exact likeness. We speak of a thing as precise when we think of it as strictly conformed to some rule or model, as if cut down thereto; as a precise conformity instructions; precisely right; he was very precise in giving his directions.
Accurate (a.) Conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy; "an accurate reproduction"; "the accounting was accurate"; "accurate measurements"; "an accurate scale" [ant: {inaccurate}].
Accurate (a.) (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) Characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct; "a precise image"; "a precise measurement" [syn: {accurate}, {exact}, {precise}].
Accurately (adv.) 準確地；精確地；正確無誤地 In an accurate manner; exactly; precisely; without error or defect.
Accurately (adv.) With few mistakes; "he works very accurately" [ant: {inaccurately}].
Accurately (adv.) Strictly correctly; "repeated the order accurately".
Accurateness (n.) 正確度 The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.
Accurse (v. t.) To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize.
And the city shall be accursed. -- Josh. vi. 17.
Thro' you, my life will be accurst. -- Tennyson.
Accurse (v.) Curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment [syn: {accurse}, {execrate}, {anathemize}, {comminate}, {anathemise}, {anathematize}, {anathematise}].
Accursed (p. p. & a.) Alt. of Accurst
Accursed (p. p. & a.) 應受詛咒的；討厭的，可惡的；不幸的；交惡運的 Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; hence, bad enough to be under the curse; execrable; detestable; exceedingly hateful; -- as, an accursed deed. -- Shak. -- {Ac*curs"ed*ly}, adv. -- {Ac*curs"ed*ness}, n.
Accursed (a.) Under a curse [syn: {accursed}, {accurst}, {maledict}]
Accusable (a.) 可指責的 Liable to be accused or censured; chargeable with a crime or fault; blamable; -- with of.
Accusal (n.) 指控，控告；指責 [U] [C] [+（that）]；（被控告的）罪名 [U] [（+against）] Accusation. [R.] -- Byron.
Accusal (n.) A formal charge of wrongdoing brought against a person; the act of imputing blame or guilt [syn: {accusation}, {accusal}].
Accusant (n.) 原告；控告者；指責者An accuser. -- Bp. Hall.
Accusation (n.) 指責，譴責，指控，控訴，控告 [U] [C] [(+that)]，(被控告的) 罪名 [U] [(+against]] The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense.
Accusation (n.) That of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or the declaration containing the charge.
Accusation (n.) A formal charge of wrongdoing brought against a person; the act of imputing blame or guilt [syn: {accusation}, {accusal}].
Accusation (n.) An assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence; "the newspaper published charges that Jones was guilty of drunken driving" [syn: {accusation}, {charge}].
Accusatival (a.) Pertaining to the accusative case.
Accusative (a.) 【文】直接受格的 Producing accusations; accusatory. "This hath been a very accusative age." --Sir E. Dering.
Accusative (a.) (Gram.) Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition. It corresponds to the objective case in English.
Accusative (n.) (Gram.) 【文】直接受格 The accusative case.
Accusative (a.) Containing or expressing accusation; "an accusitive forefinger"; "black accusatory looks"; "accusive shoes and telltale trousers"- O.Henry; "his accusing glare" [syn: {accusative}, {accusatory}, {accusing}, {accusive}].
Accusative (a.) Serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes; "objective case"; "accusative endings" [syn: {objective}, {accusative}].
Accusative (n.) The case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb [syn: {accusative}, {accusative case}, {objective case}].
Accusatively (adv.) In an accusative manner.
Accusatively (adv.) In relation to the accusative case in grammar.
Accusatively (adv.) Grammar. In the form or manner of an accusative.
Accusatively (adv.) 責難地；指責地，譴責地 In an accusatory manner; accusingly.
Accusatorial (a.) 控告者的；責問的 Accusatory.
Accusatorial (a.) Specifically indicating a form of prosecution in which one is publicly accused of and tried for a crime and in which the judge is not also the prosecutor [ant: {inquisitorial}].
Accusatorially (adv.) By way accusation; in an accusatorial manner.
Accusatory (a.) 責問的；非難的；指控的，控告的 Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel.
Accuse (n.) Accusation.
Accused (imp. & p. p.) of Accuse.
Accusing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accuse.
Accuse (v. t.) 指責，指控，控告，控訴 To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense.
Accuse (v. t.) to charge with an offense, judicially or by a public process; -- with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor.
Accuse (v. t.) To charge with a fault; to blame; to censure.
Accuse (v. t.) To betray; to show. [L.]
Accused (a.) 被控告的；Accuse的動詞過去式、過去分詞 Charged with offense; as, an accused person.
Note: Commonly used substantively; as, the accused, one charged with an offense; the defendant in a criminal case.
Accused (n.) 被告 A defendant in a criminal proceeding.
Accusement (n.) Accusation. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Accusement (n.) (In British) (Obsolete) A charge or accusation of wrongdoing or crime.
Accuser (n.) 原告；控告者；指責者 One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault.
Accusingly (adv.) 責難地；指責地，譴責地 In an accusing manner.
Accusingly (adv.) In an accusing manner; "he looked at her accusingly".
Accustomed (imp. & p. p.) of Accustom.
Accustoming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accustom.
Accustom (v. t.) （常後接oneself或用被動式）使習慣（於）[（+to）] To make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; -- with to.
Accustom (v. i.) To be wont. [Obs.]
Accustom (v. i.) To cohabit. [Obs.]
Accustom (n.) Custom. [Obs.]
Accustom (v.) Make psychologically or physically used (to something); "She became habituated to the background music" [syn: {habituate}, {accustom}].
Accustomable (a.) 習慣的，慣常的，平常的 Habitual; customary; wonted. "Accustomable goodness." -- Latimer.
Accustomably (adv.) 通常地，慣常地；一般地；平常地 According to custom; ordinarily; customarily.
Accustomance (n.) （社會，團體的）習俗，慣例 [C] [U]；（個人的）習慣 [C] Custom; habitual use. [Obs.] -- Boyle.
Accustomarily (adv.) 習慣上，習俗上，通常 Customarily. [Obs.]
Accustomary (a.) 習慣上的，慣常的；合乎習俗的；【律】習慣法上的；按慣例的 Usual; customary.
Accustomed (a.) 習慣上的，慣常的；合乎習俗的；【律】習慣法上的；按慣例的 Familiar through use; usual; customary.
Accustomed (a.) Frequented by customers.
Accustomedness (n.) 使習慣，習慣，熟習 Habituation.
Aces (n. pl. ) of Ace.
Ace (n.) A unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds.
Ace (n.) Hence: A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot.
Aceldama (n.) The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed.
Acentric (a.) Not centered; without a center.
Acephal (n.) One of the Acephala.
Acephala (n. pl.) That division of the Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells, like the clams and oysters; -- so called because they have no evident head. Formerly the group included the Tunicata, Brachiopoda, and sometimes the Bryozoa. See Mollusca.
Acephalan (n.) Same as Acephal.
Acephalan (a.) Belonging to the Acephala.
Acephali (n. pl.) A fabulous people reported by ancient writers to have heads.
Acephali (n. pl.) A Christian sect without a leader.
Acephali (n. pl.) Bishops and certain clergymen not under regular diocesan control.
Acephali (n. pl.) A class of levelers in the time of K. Henry I.
Acephalist (n.) One who acknowledges no head or superior.
Acephalocyst (n.) A larval entozoon in the form of a subglobular or oval vesicle, or hydatid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin.
Acephalocystic (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the acephalocysts.
Acephalous (a.) Headless.
Acephalous (a.) Without a distinct head; -- a term applied to bivalve mollusks.
Acephalous (a.) Having the style spring from the base, instead of from the apex, as is the case in certain ovaries.
Acephalous (a.) Without a leader or chief.
Acephalous (a.) Wanting the beginning.
Acephalous (a.) Deficient and the beginning, as a line of poetry.
Acerate (n.) (Chem.) A combination of aceric acid with a salifiable base.
Acerate (a.) Acerose; needle-shaped.
Acerate (a.) Narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves [syn: acerate, acerose, acicular, needle-shaped].
Acerb (a.) Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit; sharp and harsh.
Acerbate (v. t.) To sour; to imbitter; to irritate.
Acerbic (a.) 辛辣的；苦澀的；（語言或態度）尖刻的，尖酸的；酸的，尖刻的 Sour or severe.
Acerbic (a.) Sour or bitter in taste [syn: {acerb}, {acerbic}, {astringent}].
Acerbic (a.) Harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation"; "a vitriolic critique" [syn: {acerb}, {acerbic}, {acid}, {acrid}, {bitter}, {blistering}, {caustic}, {sulfurous}, {sulphurous}, {virulent}, {vitriolic}].
Acerbic (a.) (Formal) 尖刻的；辛辣的 Used to describe something that is spoken or written in a way that is direct, clever, and cruel.
// The letters show the acerbic wit for which Parker was both admired and feared.
Acerbitude (n.) Sourness and harshness.
Acerbity (n.) 酸；苦；辛辣 刻薄，尖刻，尖酸 Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.
Acerbity (n.) Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of temper, of language, of pain. -- Barrow.
Acerbity (n.) A sharp bitterness.
Acerbity (n.) A sharp sour taste [syn: acerbity, tartness].
Acerbity (n.) A rough and bitter manner [syn: bitterness, acrimony, acerbity, jaundice, tartness, thorniness].
Aceric (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the maple; as, aceric acid.
Acerose (a.) Having the nature of chaff; chaffy.
Compare: Chaffy
Chaffy (a.) 多穀殼的；無用的；空洞的Abounding in, or resembling, chaff.
Chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail. -- Coleridge.
Chaffy (a.) Light or worthless as chaff.
Slight and chaffy opinion. -- Glanvill.
Chaffy (a.) (Bot.) (a) Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales.
Chaffy (a.) (Bot.) (b) Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers.
Chaffy (a.) Abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff [syn: chaffy, chafflike].
Chaffy (a.) Value; "an empty chaffy book by a foolish chaffy fellow".
Acerose (a.) Needle-shaped, having a sharp, rigid point, as the leaf of the pine.
Acerous (a.) Same as Acerose.
Acerous (a.) Destitute of tentacles, as certain mollusks.