Pronounciation Nation

adjective being in contact at some point or line; located next to another; bordering; contiguous: the adjoining room; a row of adjoining town houses.

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.

adjective agreeing; conforming; harmonious.

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.

adjective academic. noun academicals. academic costume.

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.

adjective of or like an abyss; immeasurably deep or great. extremely or hopelessly bad or severe: abysmal ignorance; abysmal poverty.

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.

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).

noun former name of Ethiopia (def. 1). Ethiopia (def. 2).

noun Bella (Sa·vitz·ky) [suh-vit-skee], 1920–98, U.S. politician and women's-rights activist: congresswoman 1971–76.

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.

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.

noun a person or thing that absorbs. shock absorber. Physics. a material in a nuclear reactor that absorbs neutrons without reproducing them.

nounPhysics, Optics. the ratio of the amount of radiation absorbed by a surface to the amount of radiation incident upon it.

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.

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.

adjective in the process of building or being built.

noun the capital of Nigeria, in the central part.

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.

nounPsychiatry. a symptom of mental disorder involving impairment or loss of volition.

noun the title of the chief bishop of the Ethiopian Church.

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.

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.

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.