ACCELERATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does accelerate mean? 

• ACCELERATE (verb)
  The verb ACCELERATE has 2 senses:

1. move faster

2. cause to move faster

  Familiarity information: ACCELERATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCELERATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they accelerate    ... he / she / it accelerates   
Past simple: accelerated   
Past participle: accelerated   
-ing form: accelerating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move faster

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

accelerate; quicken; speed; speed up

Context example:

The car accelerated

Hypernyms (to "accelerate" is one way to...):

deepen; intensify (become more intense)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "accelerate"):

brisk; brisk up; brisken (become brisk)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

These cars won't accelerate

Antonym:

decelerate (lose velocity; move more slowly)

Derivation:

accelerative; acceleratory (tending to increase velocity)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to move faster

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

accelerate; speed; speed up

Context example:

He accelerated the car

Hypernyms (to "accelerate" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Antonym:

decelerate (reduce the speed of)

Derivation:

acceleration (the act of accelerating; increasing the speed)

acceleration (an increase in rate of change)

accelerative (tending to increase velocity)

accelerator (a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine)

accelerator (a pedal that controls the throttle valve)

acceleratory (tending to increase velocity)

 Context examples 

This allele, which encodes complement decay-accelerating factor protein, is involved in the modulation of complement activity.

(CD55 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

An evacuated glass tube designed to accelerate electrons onto a screen to create images.

(Cathode Ray Tube Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

A substance that initiates or accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected.

(Catalyst, NCI Thesaurus)

If untreated, it follows a biphasic or triphasic natural course; an initial indolent chronic phase which is followed by an accelerated phase, a blast phase, or both.

(Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, BCR-ABL1 Positive, NCI Thesaurus)

The number of mature and immature abnormal white blood cells in the bone marrow and blood is higher than normal, but lower than in the accelerated or blast phase.

(Chronic phase, NCI Dictionary)

Complement decay-accelerating factor (381 aa, ~41 kDa) is encoded by the human CD55 gene.

(Complement Decay-Accelerating Factor, NCI Thesaurus)

Blasts usually account for fewer than 5% of the marrow cells, and more than 10% indicates transformation to the accelerated phase.

(Chronic Phase Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, BCR-ABL1 Positive, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

This emulsion may accelerate wound healing and may prevent radiation-induced dermatitis.

(Beta-glucan/Alginate/Hyaluronic Acid/Squalene/Avocado Oil-containing Emulsion, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in the regulation of apoptosis by binding p53 protein, which accelerates this mechanism of cell death.

(BAX Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Accelerated partial-breast irradiation gives a higher dose over a shorter time than is given in standard whole-breast radiation therapy.

(Accelerated partial-breast irradiation, NCI Dictionary)