accumulate, cumulate, conglomerate, pile up, gather, amass
(verb) collect or gather; “Journals are accumulating in my office”; “The work keeps piling up”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
cumulate (third-person singular simple present cumulates, present participle cumulating, simple past and past participle cumulated)
(transitive) To accumulate; to amass.
(intransitive) To be accumulated.
• (accumulate): amass, heap up; see also pile up
• (be accumulated)
cumulate (comparative more cumulate, superlative most cumulate)
accumulated, agglomerated, amassed
cumulate (plural cumulates)
(geology) An igneous rock formed by the accumulation of crystals from a magma either by settling or floating.
Source: Wiktionary
Cu"mu*late (k"m-lt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cumulated (-l`td); p. pr. & vb. n. Cumulating (-l`tng).] Etym: [L. cumulatus, p. p. of cumulare to heap up, fr. cumulus a heap. See Cumber.]
Definition: To gather or throw into a heap; to heap together; to accumulate. Shoals of shells, bedded and cumulated heap upon heap. Woodward.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 April 2025
(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
