单词 | accumulator |
释义 | accumulatorn. 1. A person who accumulates things, esp. wealth or possessions; an acquisitive person. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > niggard or mean person > miser or hoarder of wealth chinch?a1300 wretch1303 chincher1333 muckererc1390 mokerarda1400 muglard1440 gatherer?a1513 hoarder?a1513 warner1513 hardhead1519 snudge1545 cob1548 snidge1548 muckmonger1566 mucker1567 miser?1577 scrape-penny1584 money-miser1586 gromwell-gainer1588 muckscrape1589 muckworm1598 scrib1600 muckraker1601 morkin-gnoff1602 scrape-scall1602 incubo1607 accumulator1611 gripe-money1611 scrape-good1611 silver-hider1611 gripe1621 scrapeling1629 clutch1630 scrape-pelfa1640 volpone1672 spare-penny1707 save-all1729 bagger1740 spare-thrift1803 money-codger1818 hunger-rot1828 muckrake1850 muckthrift1852 gripe-penny1860 hugger-mugger1862 Scrooge1940 the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > collecting and storing > one who accumulator1611 amasser1617 picker-up1857 pack rat1912 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Accumulateur, an accumulator; a heaper, or piler; a hoorder, or gatherer. 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. x. 56 And so go on heaping up, till death, as greedy an accumulator as themselves, gathers them into his garner! 1777 Morning Chron. 10 Sept. 1/4 A noted accumulator of riches..was distinguished by the name of Vulture, for his rapacity and extortion. 1823 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 2nd Ser. III. 133 A bibliomane is an indiscriminate accumulator. 1870 Athenæum 23 July 111/1 The contemptible insignificance of the sordid accumulator..whose wealth becomes much less his own property than the possession of society. 1922 Standard (Amer. Ethical Union) Apr. 252/1 The cruelty of the methods employed by the accumulators of the great fortunes. 1985 V. O. Birdsall Defoe's Perpetual Seekers iv. 80 She [sc. Moll Flanders] is an accumulator because money is power and lack of it is weakness and vulnerability. 2004 L. McMurtry Loop Group (2005) 173 Connie..wandered into a room heaped with Indian pots and blankets. ‘I'm not a collector—I'm an accumulator,’ Aunt Cooney admitted. 2. a. A thing which accumulates something; a storage vessel or device. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > [noun] > which store power accumulator1856 1667 R. Allestree Causes Decay Christian Piety v. 81 Broils and quarrels, which are alone the great accumulators and multipliers of injuries. 1827 Mech. Mag. 1 Dec. 286/1 Hundreds of wet ropes being, in the absence of conductors, exhausters, and not attractors or accumulators of the ether. 1856 Engineer 23 May 284 The cranes are worked by means of water pressure stored up in a cylinder termed an accumulator. 1891 Agric. Pennsylvania 47 The testing machine found no trace of the fat in the skim milk, but that was the work of the separator, the accumulator not being entitled to any credit for it. 1909 ‘A. Hallard’ tr. ‘P. de Coulevain’ On Branch 191 Winchester Cathedral is an accumulator of harmony; the Acropolis is an accumulator of beauty. 1951 J. Kerouac On the Road: Orig. Scroll (2007) 252 Say, why don't you fellows try my [orgone] accumulator in the front room. Put some juice in your bones. 1992 W. T. Parsons & E. G. Cuthbertson Noxious Weeds Austral. 16/2 Horsetails, generally, are well known as accumulators of silicon. 2004 A. Watson Quantum Quark iv. 190 Each beam then passed through a 600 MeV linear accelerator..and on to a 600 MeV accumulator to build up a stash of particles. b. British. A rechargeable battery, esp. one in a motor vehicle. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electric charge, electricity > [noun] > apparatus for collection collector1777 condenser1782 accumulator1879 capacitor1926 electrolytic1936 1879 R. S. Ball in Cassell's Techn. Educ. I. 241/2 This energy is stored up by the engine in what is called an accumulator. 1924 A. J. Allmand & H. J. T. Ellingham Princ. Appl. Electrochem. (ed. 2) xiv. 251 This accumulator,..usually known as the Edison cell, is the only serious competitor of the lead accumulator. 1942 Yank 15 July 5/4 To Englishmen a freight car is a goods wagon... An automobile battery is an accumulator. 1978 G. C. Hill & J. S. Holman Chem. in Context xiii. 196 Secondary cells or accumulators which can be recharged and used again. 1998 Toronto Star (Nexis) 24 Jan. j16 There is a good possibility..that the accumulator can be serviced without removing the tranny, saving you a substantial labour bill. c. Computing. A register in a computer or calculating machine; esp. one in which the results of an arithmetical or logical operation are stored. Cf. register n.1 11b, 11c. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > hardware > computer > [noun] > calculator > data storage register1860 accumulator1914 1914 Appl. Mech. Arithm. as practiced on Comptometer (Felt & Tarrant Manufacturing Co.) 8/1 The keys may be depressed... If one depression is made the number is added to any amount previously on the accumulator. 1945 J. P. Eckert et al. Descr. ENIAC (PB 86242) (Moore School of Electr. Engin., Univ. Pennsylvania) b1 It is desired to form in two accumulators a tabulation of the function n² against n. 1967 Life 27 Oct. 62/2 The Accumulator, which keeps a running tally of whatever is put into it, instantly adds the new number to the old and produces a total. 1980 C. S. French Computer Sci. viii. 34 Numbers about to be added or subtracted are..placed in registers called Accumulators within the ALU. 2000 P. Scherz Pract. Electronics for Inventors App. K 557 One or more ALU registers, called accumulators, which can receive initial values from memory, hold the cumulative results of the arithmetic and logic operations, and transmit the final result back to memory. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > university administration > taking degree or graduation > [noun] > taking more than one degree > person who accumulator1691 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 851 Charles Croke of the same house, an Accumulator and Compounder. 1724 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1907) VIII. 238 Mr. Ralph Bridges was presented..to the degree of Bach. & Dr. of Div., as an accumulator, and Member of Trinity College. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Wood gives numerous instances of Accumulators; i.e. persons who accumulated, or took degrees by Accumulation at Oxford. 1845 in G. R. M. Ward Oxf. Univ. Statutes I. Contents p. xlvi The Statutes to which the Senior Proctor is to swear the several Presentees..For an accumulator of Degrees in Divinity. 4. Betting. A cumulative series of bets, usually on a series of horse races, in which winnings accruing from each transaction are used as a stake for a further bet. Also: a person who bets in this way. Frequently attributive, esp. in accumulator bet. Cf. parlay n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > better bettor1584 gripe1591 better1614 staker1648 wagerer1660 sporting man1742 betting-man1819 fielder1844 investor1850 backer1853 punter1860 layer1871 accumulator1889 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > type of bet swoopstake1599 by-beta1627 levant1714 even money1732 play or pay bet1738 side bet1769 long shot1796 sweep1849 pay-or-play1853 sweepstake1861 pari-mutuel1868 to go a raker1869 flutter1874 skinner1874 by-wager1886 plunge1888 accumulator1889 saver1891 mutuel1893 quinella1902 parlay1904 Sydney or the bush1924 treble1924 daily double1930 all-up1933 round robin1944 double1951 twin double1960 perfecta1961 pool1963 lose bet1964 tiercé1964 Yankee bet1964 Yankee1967 nap1971 superfecta1971 tricast1972 triple1972 trixie1973 telebetting1974 trifecta1974 over-and-under1975 over-under1981 spread bet1981 1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 14/1 Accumulator (racing), a person who backs one horse, and then if it wins results (sometimes including original stakes) goes on to some other horse. 1904 Badminton Mag. 19 40 At Newmarket in the autumn of 1902 I thought I saw an undefeatable accumulator of four horses. 1951 E. Rickman Come Racing with Me xviii. 182 Doubles, trebles and accumulators are popular among those backers who are particularly attracted by the possibility of winning a substantial sum for a small outlay. 1961 New Statesman 15 Sept. 336/1 A professional racing man..felt impelled to have an accumulator bet on every race on the day's card. 2001 FourFourTwo Aug. 24/2 It was the 15th and final leg of a 30p accumulator which he had placed at his local branch of William Hill back in August. 2010 Wall St. Jrnl. 13 Jan. a19/5 Combine the wide range of bettable events with the possibility of accumulator bets, and what results is a complex system that defies modernization. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1611 |
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