How to Pronounce "Adjoining"
adjective
being in contact at some point or line; located next to another; bordering; contiguous:
the adjoining room; a row of adjoining town houses.
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How To Pronounce "Account"
noun
an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative:
an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
an explanatory statement of conduct, as to a superior.
a statement of reasons, causes, etc., explaining some event.
reason; basis:
On this account I'm refusing your offer.
importance; worth; value; consequence:
things of no account.
estimation; judgment:
In his account it was an excellent piece of work.
an amount of money deposited with a bank, as in a checking or savings account:
My account is now with Third National.
Also called charge account. an accommodation or service extended by a business to a customer or client permitting the charging of goods or services, the returning for credit of unsatisfactory merchandise, etc.:
Do you have an account at this store? My account with the restaurant is past due.
a statement of financial transactions.
Bookkeeping.
a formal record of the debits and credits relating to the person, business, etc., named at the head of the ledger account.
a balance of a specified period's receipts and expenditures.
Commerce.
a business relation in which credit is used.
any customer or client, especially one carried on a regular credit basis.
Also called advertising account. the business assigned to an advertising agency by a client:
The toothpaste account was awarded to a new agency last year.
Digital Technology. an electronic identity, as a username and its associated data, assigned to an individual or group for secure, personalized access to a website, network, digital service, etc.:
I don’t access my work account from my home computer.
Your email account has been hacked!
verb (used without object)
to give an explanation (usually followed by for):
to account for the accident.
to answer concerning one's conduct, duties, etc. (usually followed by for):
to account for the missing documents.
to provide a report on money received, kept, and spent.
to cause (usually followed by for):
The humidity accounts for our discomfort. His reckless driving accounted for the accident.
verb (used with object)
to regard; consider as:
I account myself well paid.
to assign or impute (usually followed by to):
the many virtues accounted to him.
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How To Pronounce "Accession"
noun
the act of coming into the possession of a right, title, office, etc.:
accession to the throne.
an increase by something added:
an accession of territory.
something added:
a list of accessions to the college library.
Law. addition to property by growth or improvement.
consent; agreement; approval:
accession to a demand.
International Law. formal acceptance of a treaty, international convention, or other agreement between states.
the act of coming near; approach.
an attack or onset, as of a disease.
verb (used with object)
to make a record of (a book, painting, etc.) in the order of acquisition.
to acquire (a book, painting, etc.), especially for a permanent collection.
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How To Pronounce "Accessible"
adjective
easy to approach, reach, enter, speak with, or use.
able to be used, entered, reached, etc.:
an accessible road; accessible Mayan ruins.
suitable for disabled people to reach, enter, or use, as a result of design modifications:
wheelchair-accessible vans;
modified controllers to make video games accessible.
readily understandable:
Students may believe that poetry is not accessible because of its metaphorical language.
obtainable; attainable:
accessible evidence.
open to the influence of (usually followed by to):
accessible to bribery.
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How to Pronounce "Abysmal"
adjective
of or like an abyss; immeasurably deep or great.
extremely or hopelessly bad or severe:
abysmal ignorance; abysmal poverty.
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How To Pronounce "Abyss"
noun
a deep, immeasurable space, gulf, or cavity; vast chasm.
anything that seems to be without end or is impossible to measure, define, or comprehend:
the abyss of their grief and sorrow.
(in ancient cosmogony)
the primal chaos before Creation.
the infernal regions; hell.
a subterranean ocean.
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How To Pronounce "Abyssal"
adjective
of or like an abyss; immeasurable; unfathomable.
Oceanography. of or relating to the biogeographic zone of the ocean bottom between the bathyal and hadal zones: from depths of approximately 13,000 to 21,000 feet (4,000 to 6,500 meters).
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How To Pronounce "Abzug"
noun
Bella (Sa·vitz·ky) [suh-vit-skee], 1920–98, U.S. politician and women's-rights activist: congresswoman 1971–76.
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How To Pronounce "Academe"
noun
the campus activity, life, and interests of a college or university; the academic world.
Sometimes Academe . any place of instruction; a school.
a person living in, accustomed to, or preferring the environment of a university.
a scholarly or pedantic person, especially a teacher or student.
Academe, the public grove in Athens in which Plato taught.
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How To Pronounce "Acacia"
noun
a small tree or shrub belonging to the genus Acacia, of the mimosa family, having clusters of small yellow flowers.
any of several other plants, as the locust tree.
gum arabic.
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How to Pronounce "Absorber"
noun
a person or thing that absorbs.
shock absorber.
Physics. a material in a nuclear reactor that absorbs neutrons without reproducing them.
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How to Pronounce "Absorptance"
nounPhysics, Optics.
the ratio of the amount of radiation absorbed by a surface to the amount of radiation incident upon it.
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How to Pronounce "Abubble"
adjective
bubbling, as while cooking or boiling:
The whole house was filled with the inviting aroma of the soup abubble on the stove.
characterized by intense enthusiasm or activity:
The store was abubble with last-minute shoppers.
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How to Pronounce "Abugida"
nounLinguistics.
a system of writing, as in Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, Ge'ez, and Devanagari, in which each symbol represents a combination of a fixed consonantal sound and a default vowel sound that can be modified through the use of diacritics or directional changes.: See also abjad.
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How to Pronounce "Abukir"
noun
a bay in N Egypt, between Alexandria and the Rosetta mouth of the Nile: French fleet defeated here by British fleet 1798.
Abu Qir.
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How to Pronounce "Abulia"
nounPsychiatry.
a symptom of mental disorder involving impairment or loss of volition.
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How to Pronounce "Abundant"
adjective
present in great quantity; more than adequate; oversufficient:
an abundant supply of water.
well supplied with something; abounding:
a river abundant in salmon.
richly supplied, as with resources:
an abundant land.
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How to Pronounce "Abundance"
noun
an extremely plentiful or oversufficient quantity or supply:
an abundance of grain.
overflowing fullness:
abundance of the heart.
affluence; wealth:
the enjoyment of abundance.
Physics, Chemistry. the number of atoms of one isotope of an element divided by the total number of atoms in a mixture of the isotopes.
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How to Pronounce "Abuse"
verb (used with object),a·bused, a·bus·ing.
to use wrongly or improperly; misuse:
to abuse one's authority.
to treat in a harmful, injurious, or offensive way:
to abuse a horse; to abuse one's eyesight.
to speak insultingly, harshly, and unjustly to or about; revile; malign.
to commit sexual assault upon.
Obsolete. to deceive or mislead.
noun
wrong or improper use; misuse:
the abuse of privileges.
harshly or coarsely insulting language:
The officer heaped abuse on his men.
bad or improper treatment; maltreatment:
The child was subjected to cruel abuse.
a corrupt or improper practice or custom:
the abuses of a totalitarian regime.
rape or sexual assault.
Obsolete. deception.
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