Meaning of accident | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences, and (in the strict sense) not directly caused by humans.
   countable, uncountable
2. accident (unexpected event with negative consequences)
3. A town in Garrett County, Maryland, United States.
4. casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
   countable, uncountable
5. accidental
6. happening by chance or accident. an accidental discovery. toevallig عَرَضِي، بِالصُّدْفَه случаен fortuito náhodný zufällig tilfældig τυχαίοςaccidental, fortuito juhuslik شانسی؛ اتفاقی satunnainen accidentelמקרי, עקב תאונה आकस्मिक slučajan véletlen secara kebetulan tilviljunarkenndur accidentale, fortuito 偶然の 우연한 atsitiktinis nejaušs; gadījuma- tidak sengaja toevalligtilfeldigprzypadkowy تصادفی غیرمرقب fortuito întâmplător, accidental случайный náhodný naključen slučajan slumpartad, oavsiktli...
7. A collision or crash of a vehicle, aircraft, or other form of transportation that causes damage to the transportation involved; and sometimes injury or death to the transportation's occupants or bystanders in close proximity. (but see Usage notes)
   countable, uncountable
8. feature
9. toevallig عَرَضَاً، صُدْفَة случайно acidentalmente náhodně zufällig tilfældigt τυχαίαpor casualidad; por descuido juhuslikult تصادفاً satunnaisesti par hasardבמקרה, שלא במתכוון, בטעות संयोगवश slučajno véletlenül secara kebetulan af slysni, fyrir tilviljun per caso 偶然に 우연히 atsitiktinai nejauši dengan tidak sengaja toevallig ved et tilfelle/uhell, tilfeldigvisprzypadkowo ناژچاپه acidentalmente din întâm­plare, întâmplător, accidental случайно náhodne po naključju slučajno av en händelse, oavsi...
10. Any chance event.
    countable, uncountable
11. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
12. accidente;by ___ → por casualidad, sin querer;
13. Chance; random chance.
    uncountable
14. third-person singular imperative
15. An unexpected and undesirable event, especially one resulting in damage or harm: an accident on the assembly line; car accidents on icy roads.
16. Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive.
    countable, uncountable
17. Lack of intention; chance: ran into an old friend by accident.
18. A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case.
    countable, uncountable
19. Philosophy An attribute of a substance that is not essential to its nature.
    Philosophy
20. An instance of incontinence.
    countable, euphemistic, uncountable
21. an unforeseen event or one without an apparent cause
22. Urine or feces excreted due to incontinence.
    countable, euphemistic, uncountable
23. anything that occurs unintentionally or by chance; chance; fortune: I met him by accident.
24. An unintended pregnancy.
    countable, euphemistic, uncountable
25. a misfortune or mishap, esp one causing injury or death
26. A person born from an unintended pregnancy.
    countable, derogatory, euphemistic, humorous, uncountable
27. (Logic) logic philosophy Also called: adjunct a nonessential attribute or characteristic of something (as opposed to substance)
    logic
28. An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.
    countable, uncountable
29. A sudden discontinuity of ground such as fault of great thickness, bed or lentil of unstable ground.
    countable, uncountable
30. A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“to die by an accident such as an act of God”

“Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, / Of moving accidents by flood and field[…]”

“There was a huge accident on I5 involving 15 automobiles.”

“My insurance went up after the second accident in three months.”

“Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.”

“He also objects to the idea of women arising by an accident of nature, preferring the notion that they came about as a 'result of some strong mental impression', and so 'the sex of the progeny would have been settled by the decision of the progenitor'.”

“c.1861-1863, Richard Chevenix Trench, in 1888, Letters and memorials, Volume 1, Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident, / It is the very place God meant for thee; […]”

“And so with his writing, which he proudly said was a perfect counterpart of his life. Accident played a major part in both.”

“Beauty is an accident.”

“Lexical gaps are called accidental because their existence is by accident; it is not essential.”

“This accident, as I call it, of Athens being situated some miles from the sea, which is rather the consequence of its being a very ancient site,[…]”

“If they went through their growth-crisis in other faiths and other countries, although the essence of the change would be the same[…], its accidents would be different.”

“14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale in The Canterbury Tales, These cookes how they stamp, and strain, and grind, / And turne substance into accident, / To fulfill all thy likerous talent!”

“But as to Man, all the Fruits of the Earth, all sorts of Herbs, Plants and Roots, the Fishes of the Sea, and the Birds of the Air do not suffice him, but he must disguise, vary, and sophisticate, change the substance into accident, that by such irritations as these, Nature might be provoked, and as it were necessitated.”

“Nonetheless, those who have no evidence of the impossibility of the transformation of accident into substance believe that it is death itself which will be actually transformed into a ram on the Day of Resurrection and then be slaughtered.”

“It would also follow that God ought to be able to transmute genera, converting substance into accident, knowledge into ability, black into white, and sound into smell, just as he can turn the inanimate into animate[…]”

“nor can God effect the transmutation of substances (from accident into substance, or substance into accident, or substance without accident).”

“An adjective, so called because adjectitious, or added to a substantive, denotes some quality or accident of the substantive to which it is joined […]”

“We weren’t there long when Karin asked about our dog. When we told her Chris was in the car, she insisted we bring him up to the apartment. I rejected her offer and said he might have an accident on the carpet and I didn’t want to worry about it.”

“Taylor was our sweet little accident, and we're so glad!”

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