accumulate (redirected from accumulable)

ac·cu·mu·late  (-kymy-lt)

v. ac·cu·mu·lat·ed, ac·cu·mu·lat·ing, ac·cu·mu·lates

v.tr.

To gather or pile up; amass. See Synonyms at gather.

v.intr.

To mount up; increase.

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[Latin accumulre, accumult- : ad-, ad- + cumulre, to pile up (from cumulus, heap; see keu- in Indo-European roots).]

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ac·cumu·la·ble (-l-bl) adj.

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accumulate

Verb

[-lating, -lated] to gather together in an increasing quantity; collect [Latin accumulare to heap up]

accumulative adj

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	accumulate - 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" collect, compile, hoard, amass, roll up, pile up run up - pile up (debts or scores) corral - collect or gather; "corralling votes for an election" collect, pull in - get or bring together; "accumulate evidence" scrape up, scrape, scratch, come up - gather (money or other resources) together over time; "She had scraped together enough money for college"; "they scratched a meager living" chunk, lump - put together indiscriminately; "lump together all the applicants" bale - make into a bale; "bale hay" catch - take in and retain; "We have a big barrel to catch the rainwater" fund - accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability; "fund a medical care plan" fund - place or store up in a fund for accumulation salt away, stack away, stash away, store, hive away, lay in, put in - keep or lay aside for future use; "store grain for the winter"; "The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat"
	2.	accumulate - collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up" amass, conglomerate, cumulate, pile up, gather increase - become bigger or greater in amount; "The amount of work increased" backlog - accumulate and create a backlog accrete - grow or become attached by accretion; "The story accreted emotion" drift - be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current; "snow drifting several feet high"; "sand drifting like snow"

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accumulate

verb build up, increase, grow, be stored, collect, gather, pile up, amass, stockpile, hoard, accrue, cumulate << OPPOSITE disperse

Translations

accumulate [əˈkjuːmjuleɪt] vt → acumular

vi → acumularse

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accumulate [əˈkjuːmjuleɪt] vt → accumuler, amasser

vi → s'accumuler, s'amasser

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accumulate [əˈkjuːmjuleɪt] vt → ansammeln

vi → sich ansammeln

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accumulate [əˈkjuːmjuleɪt] vt → accumulare

vi → accumularsi