account

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[edit] English

Wikipedia has articles on:

Wikipedia

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /əˈkaʊnt/
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  • Rhymes: -aʊnt
  • Hyphenation: ac‧count

[edit] Etymology 1

From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman acunte (“account”), from Old French aconte, from aconter (“to reckon”), from Latin computo (“to sum up”)

[edit] Noun

Wikipedia has an article on:

Wikipedia account (plural accounts)

  1. A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review
    to keep one's account at the bank.
  2. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event;
    No satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena.
  3. A reason, grounds, consideration, motive.
    on no account
    on every account
    on all accounts
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Episode 16
      ...who evidently a glutton for work, it struck him, was having a quiet forty winks for all intents and purposes on his own private account while Dublin slept.
  4. (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description
    An account of a battle.
    • (Can we date this quote?) A laudable account of the city of London. - Howell
  5. (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgement thereon.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Give an account of thy stewardship. - Luke 16:2
  6. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
    • (Can we date this quote?) To stand high in your account - Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, III-ii
  7. Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Men of account - Alexander Pope
    • (Can we date this quote?) To turn to account - Shakespeare
  8. An authorization to use a service.
    I've opened an account with Wikipedia so that I can contribute and partake in the project.
  9. (archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
[edit] Usage notes
  • of Account, narrative, narration, recital. These words are applied to different modes of rehearsing a series of events
  • Account turns attention not so much to the speaker as to the fact related, and more properly applies to the report of some single event, or a group of incidents taken as whole; as, an account of a battle, of a shipwreck, etc.
  • A narrative is a continuous story of connected incidents, such as one friend might tell to another; as, a narrative of the events of a siege, a narrative of one's life, etc.
  • Narration is usually the same as narrative, but is sometimes used to describe the mode of relating events; as, his powers of narration are uncommonly great.
  • Recital denotes a series of events drawn out into minute particulars, usually expressing something which peculiarly interests the feelings of the speaker; as, the recital of one's wrongs, disappointments, sufferings, etc.
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[edit] Translations
reckoning, calculation
a registry of pecuniary transactions
a statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc.
a statement of facts or occurrences
a statement and explanation or vindication
an authorization to use a service
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[edit] Etymology 2

From Middle English acounten, accompten, from Old French aconter, from à (from Latin ad) + conter (“to count”), from Latin computo. See count.

[edit] Verb

account (third-person singular simple present accounts, present participle accounting, simple past and past participle accounted)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To reckon; to compute; to count.
    The motion of... the sun whereby years are accounted.
  2. (transitive, rare, with "to") To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign. Edward Hyde Clarendon
  3. (transitive) To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Epistle to the Hebrews, 11:19
      Accounting that God was able to raise him up.
    • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. VIII, Unworking Aristocracy
      The Pagan Hercules, why was he accounted a hero? Because he had slain Nemean Lions, cleansed Augean Stables, undergone Twelve Labours only not too heavy for a god.
  4. (intransitive) To render or receive an account or relation of particulars
    An officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.
  5. (intransitive, with "for") To render an account; to answer in judgement.
    We must account for the use of our opportunities.
  6. (intransitive, with "for") To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain
    Idleness accounts for poverty.
  7. (transitive) To get revenge on.
[edit] Derived terms
terms derived from account (verb)
[edit] Translations
(obsolete) to reckon
credit (to) — see credit
to estimate, to deem
account for — see account for
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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Etymology

Borrowing from English account.

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /əˈkɑʊnt/

[edit] Noun

account m. and n.

  1. a subscription to an electronic service

[edit] Italian

[edit] Etymology

Borrowing from English account.

[edit] Noun

account m. inv.

  1. (computing) account
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