Word Finder - accumulating

definition

To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together (either literally or figuratively)

example

He wishes to accumulate a sum of money.

synonyms

• amass
• heap
• hoard
• store

definition

To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.

synonyms

• aggregate
• amound
• collect
• gather

definition

To take a higher degree at the same time with a lower degree, or at a shorter interval than usual.

That it is caused by the compressed condition of the gradually accumulating gas.

Cynthia protested, citing the accumulating chores and full house, but reluctantly agreed.

Sulla, leaving things quiet at Rome, quitted Italy in 87, and for the next four years he was winning victory after victory against the armies of Mithradates and accumulating boundless plunder.

A new card also increases the chance of accumulating too much debt.

Such cellulose is gradually reconverted into water and carbon dioxide, but for some time nothing positive was known as to the agents which thus break up the paper, rags, straw, leaves and wood, &c., accumulating in cesspools, forests, marshes and elsewhere in such abundance.

Dangers were accumulating upon Ludovico and the state of Milan.

Another method to prevent frost from accumulating on plants is to cover them.

The accumulating GAGs are stored in cellular structures called lysosomes, and these disorders are known as lysosomal storage diseases.

As of 2004 evidence was accumulating that unrelenting pain or the complete lack of nerve signals increases the number of pain receptors in the spinal cord.

Carefully wipe down the outside of the unit to keep dirt and debris from accumulating in the purifier.

This life insurance option offers flexible premium amounts, along with an accumulating cash value.

You can change the color of the pig by accumulating training time.

The Bard gains levels after accumulating a number of points achieved through combat and quest completion.

During the second half of pregnancy, secretory activity increases and the alveoli become distended by accumulating colostrum.

For example, pain arising from fluid accumulating at the base of the lung may be referred to the shoulder.

The risks associated with drawing blood are minimal but may include bleeding from the puncture site, feeling faint or lightheaded after the blood is drawn, or blood accumulating under the puncture site (hematoma).

To keep the hand mixer from accumulating dust, store in a clean, dry place such inside a kitchen cabinet.

Earning, accumulating and spending money are all Taurean traits, and he knows how to do all three quite well.

It's crucial to understand which discounts are legitimate, and which ones may result in inadequate coverage that could lead to outstanding bills and accumulating debt in the case of a medical emergency.

He quickly began landing roles, accumulating screen credits that include a recurring role on Six Feet Under and guest spots on Joan of Arcadia and 24.

Check the areas at the very top of the mini blinds for dust accumulating just out of reach.

The only trouble is, it takes a lot of work for the body to eliminate the bad things that have been accumulating in it for so long.

At the same time, the funds start accumulating a fixed or variable interest rate, depending on which type of account the investor chooses.

You are rewarded with bonus coins by accumulating Café points, which enable you to advance to higher Café World levels.

Businesses and individuals alike have presences on Facebook for meeting friends and accumulating fans.

When he finished the chores, he swallowed three aspirins and went outside to shovel the accumulating snow, hoping further activity might dissipate the anger he felt, not only at Shipton, but at himself for losing it in so public and childish manner.

Immured in his castle at Pavia, accumulating wealth by systematic taxation and methodical economy, he organized the mercenary troops who eagerly took service under so good a paymaster; and, by directing their operations from his cabinet, he threatened the whole of Italy with conquest.

Evidence is accumulating, though no completely satisfactory theory can yet be put forward, as to the northern origin of the dynastic Egyptians.

He also investigated the diamagnetic and paramagnetic properties of substances; and was keenly interested in the phenomena of electrochemical decomposition, accumulating much evidence in favour of Faraday's law and proposing a modified statement of it which was intended to cover certain apparent exceptions.

The possibility of in the verification established verification as a habit; and the -collecting of things, instead of the accumulating of reports, developed a new faculty of minute observation.

In extraneous pigmentation we have coloured substances either in a solid or fluid state, gaining entrance into the organism and accumulating in certain tissues.

He traces various local dropsies to the starvation from which the tissues are suffering, the liquid accumulating in excess in accordance with the demand for more nourishment.

Evidence is accumulating which may end in the explanation and perhaps in the prevention of the direst of human woes - cancer itself, though at present inquiry is being directed rather to intrinsic than to extrinsic causes.

If there is no external loss or gain of heat through the walls of the pipe, and if the flow is steady, so that energy is not accumulating in the space AB, we must evidently have the condition E'+U'+p'v' =E'+ U"+p"v" at any two cross-sections of the stream.

Increasing years and accumulating responsibilities now caused the emperor to alter somewhat his manner of life.

To this inconceivably slowly-growing deposit of inorganic material over the ocean floor there is added an overwhelmingly more rapid contribution of the remains of calcareous and siliceous planktonic and benthonic organisms, which tend to bury the slower accumulating material under a blanket of globigerina, pteropod, diatom or radiolarian ooze.

These artificial lakes are usually formed by throwing embankments across the lower extremities of valleys, and thus arresting and accumulating the waters flowing through them.

The catastrophe has been explained as a volcanic eruption, or an explosive outburst of gas and oil stored and accumulating at high pressure.

Nevertheless, permanent if partial dissolution was at hand, for no one of the perils which the popes had seemingly so successfully overcome had failed to weaken the constitution of their empire; and it is impossible to comprehend 'its comparatively sudden disintegration without reckoning with the varied hostile forces which were accumulating and combining strength during the 14th and 15th centuries.

It is thus clear that motives which might ultimately lead to the withdrawal of a certain number of German princes from the papal ecclesiastical state were accumulating and intensifying during the latter half of the 15th century.

They are found in formations of all ages from the Cambrian to those which are accumulating at the present day.

This gives rise to the great morphological difference, that in the former regions, the Astin-tagh and the Kuruk-tagh, the products of disintegration are almost always carried away by the wind, and so disappear; no matter how powerful or how active the disintegration may be, none of the loosened material ever succeeds either in gathering amongst the mountains or in accumulating at their foot.

As among the vertebrates, materials were accumulating rapidly for the great generalizations which were to follow in the third period.

These works swept aside the dry traditional fossil lore which had been accumulating in France and Germany.

The slowly accumulating data have not yet made it possible to determine precisely the probably varying relations of these various names.

With the accumulating proofs of the financial stability of the country various changes were made in connection with the debt charges.

Several sites of the Early Iron Age have also been excavated in Greece, but nothing has been found to prove the origin of the " Geometric " culture, though accumulating evidence still indicates a northern source.

The best raw materials for the preparation of thallium are the flue-dusts produced industrially in the roasting of thalliferous pyrites and the "chamber muds" accumulating in vitriol-chambers wrought with such pyrites; in both it is frequently associated with selenium.

Considerable deposits of mud, silt and sand are accumulating in many of the estuaries.

The story begins with his previous births, in which also he was accumulating the Buddha qualities.