accelerate, speed up, speed, quicken
(verb) move faster; “The car accelerated”
accelerate, speed, speed up
(verb) cause to move faster; “He accelerated the car”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
accelerate (third-person singular simple present accelerates, present participle accelerating, simple past and past participle accelerated)
(transitive) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
(transitive) To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
(transitive, physics) To cause a change of velocity.
(transitive) To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
(transitive, education) To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
(intransitive) To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
(intransitive) Grow; increase.
(obsolete) Alternative form of accelerated
• (to cause to move faster): hasten, quicken, speed up; see also speed up
• (to quicken progress): expedite, further,
• (to hasten the occurrence of an event): advance, forward
• decelerate
• retard
• unaccelerate
accelerate
(rare) Accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.
Source: Wiktionary
Ac*cel"er*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accelerated; p. pr. & vb. n. Accelerating.] Etym: [L. acceleratus, p. p. of accelerare; ad + celerare to hasten; celer quick. See Celerity.]
1. To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.
2. To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc.
3. To hasten, as the occurence of an event; as, to accelerate our departure. Accelerated motion (Mech.), motion with a continually increasing velocity.
– Accelerating force, the force which causes accelerated motion. Nichol.
Syn.
– To hasten; expedite; quicken; dispatch; forward; advance; further.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
10 June 2025
(noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); “communications is his major field of study”
Coffee starts as a yellow berry, changes into a red berry, and then is picked by hand to harvest. The red berry is de-shelled through a water soaking process and what’s left inside is the green coffee bean. This bean then dries in the sun for 3-5 days, where it is then packed and ready for sale.
