account
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: accounting
banking
business
finance
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Old French a-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin com-
Latin putus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin putō
Latin computō
Old French conter
Old French aconter
Anglo-Norman acuntebor.
Middle English acounte
English account
From Middle English acounte, from Anglo-Norman acunte (“account”), from Old French aconte, from aconter (“to reckon”), from Latin computō (“to sum up”).
Inflected forms:
form: accounts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: accounts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: accounting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: accounted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: accounted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: account
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: account
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: accounted
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: account
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: accountest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: accounted
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: accountedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: accounts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: accounteth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: accounted
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: account
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: accounted
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: account
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: accounted
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: account
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: accounting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: accounted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: The firm failed to file its accounts on time.
gloss: A bank account.
pos: noun
examples: The money was refunded to her account.
The Pueblo bank has advised that the operator opened an account at that bank with currency, and a few days later withdrew the amount.
gloss: A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
pos: noun
examples: Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
No satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena.
Give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.
gloss: A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
pos: noun
examples: Don't trouble yourself on my account.
on no account
on every account
on all accounts
[…] 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.
gloss: A record of events; a relation or narrative.
pos: noun
examples: An account of a battle.
A laudible account of the city of London.
The study of the main body of Hittite texts was intrusted^([sic]) to the Austrian scholar Hrozny, who in 1915 published a preliminary account of his results[…]
According to one published account, said to be based on information provided by foreign missionaries in Chungking, whose reaction may have been influenced by the excesses of the Boxer Rebellion just a few years earlier, Tuan-fang was killed by his own soldiers at Tzu-chou, Shensi province.
In a lapidary style, Qiu Dongping clearly and forcefully describes battlefield actions with simple sentences, giving a blow-by-blow account of successive events with neither understatement nor exaggeration.
gloss: An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
pos: noun
examples: To stand high in your account
gloss: Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
pos: noun
examples: There is a peculiarity in Homers manner of apoſtrophizing Eumæus, and ſpeaking of him in the ſecond perſon; it is generally apply'd by that Poet only to men of account' and diſtinction, and by it the Poet, as it were, addreſſes them with reſpect; […]
gloss: Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
pos: noun
examples: Since the system outage, I've been unable to log in to my account.
In these cases, the agency has to buy through another ad agency that has an account with the media vehicle in question.
For example, to register an account with Hotmail, you should type www.hotmail.com on the Address bar of your browser to go to the Hotmail e-mail service WEB page.
While the buyer might have to create an account with the online payment service, this account is free; the account exists only to facilitate future transactions, since the buyer's address and payment information doesn't have to be re-entered for each new transaction.
Depending on the shipping options you plan to offer to your customers, you'll probably need to open shipping accounts with FedEx, UPS, and perhaps other couriers as well.
Of course, to use iCloud on your iPhone, you need to have an iCloud account.
gloss: A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: It seems that this severity weakened his frame, for three years syne come Martinmas he was taken ill with a fever of the bowels, and after a week's sickness he went to his account, where I trust he is accepted.
gloss: Profit; advantage.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The young man soon turned his woodworking skills to some account.
I removed from the Old Jewry to Fetter Lane, and from thence to Wapping, hoping to get business among the sailors; but it would not turn to account.
gloss: To provide explanation.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To provide explanation.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
gloss: To provide explanation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The Pagan Hercules, why was he accounted a hero?
gloss: To provide explanation.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
gloss: To provide explanation.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: An officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.
gloss: To provide explanation.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We must account for the use of our opportunities.
gloss: To provide explanation.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Idleness accounts for poverty.
While the overall model was invariant across groups, the direct relationship between atypical eating (not driven by weight/shape) and ED pathology was only significant in the autistic group. Therefore, while body image appears to contribute to ED pathology in autistic adults, atypical eating may represent an additional unique risk factor for ED pathology. While the correlational nature of this study precludes inferences about causality, the combination of atypical eating and body image dissatisfaction may partially account for elevated ED pathology in autism.
gloss: To provide explanation.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: After the crash, not all passengers were accounted for.
gloss: To provide explanation.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Desperately bold at last, the persecuted animals bolted above-ground—the terrier accounted for one, the keeper for another; Rawdon, from flurry and excitement, missed his rat, but on the other hand he half-murdered a ferret.
gloss: To count.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: neither the motion of the Moon, whereby moneths are computed; nor of the Sun, whereby years are accounted, consisteth of whole numbers, but admits of fractions, and broken parts, as we have already declared concerning the Moon.
gloss: To count.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
gloss: To count.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Long worke it were / Here to account the endlesse progeny / Of all the weeds that bud and blossome there [...].
gloss: Used in phrasal verbs: account for, account of, account to.
pos: verb
Related words: accountable
accountant
Derived words: account for
account of
account to
misaccount
reaccount
unaccounted
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: հաշվետվություն
roman: hašvetvutʻyun
lang: Belarusian
word: апо́вед
roman: apóvjed
lang: Belarusian
word: перака́з
roman: pjerakáz
lang: Belarusian
word: вы́клад
roman: výklad
lang: Belarusian
word: выклада́нне
roman: vykladánnje
lang: Belarusian
word: апіса́нне
roman: apisánnje
lang: Belarusian
word: справазда́ча
roman: spravazdáča
lang: Belarusian
word: апавяда́нне
roman: apavjadánnje
lang: Bulgarian
word: изложе́ние
roman: izložénie
lang: Bulgarian
word: описа́ние
roman: opisánie
lang: Bulgarian
word: сведение
roman: svedenie
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 敘述 /叙述
roman: xùshù
lang: Danish
word: forklaring
lang: Dutch
word: verslag
lang: Dutch
word: verhaal
lang: Estonian
word: seletus
lang: Finnish
word: selonteko
lang: Finnish
word: selostus
lang: French
word: rapport
lang: French
word: récit
lang: German
word: Bericht
lang: Greek
word: αναφορά
roman: anaforá
lang: Hindi
word: वृत्तान्त
roman: vŕttānt
lang: Hungarian
word: beszámoló
lang: Hungarian
word: jelentés
lang: Italian
word: resoconto
lang: Italian
word: descrizione
lang: Italian
word: racconto
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Rapport
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Bericht
lang: Māori
word: pūkete
lang: Middle English
word: acounte
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: forklaring
lang: Polish
word: relacja
lang: Portuguese
word: relato
lang: Romanian
word: relatare
lang: Russian
word: изложе́ние
roman: izložénije
lang: Russian
word: описа́ние
roman: opisánije
lang: Russian
word: отчёт
roman: otčót
lang: Russian
word: расска́з
roman: rasskáz
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: iomradh
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: и̏звјешта̄ј
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: о̀пис
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: при́каз
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ȉzvještāj
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: òpis
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: príkaz
lang: Sicilian
word: cuntu
lang: Sicilian
word: storia
lang: Spanish
word: reporte
lang: Spanish
word: relato
lang: Spanish
word: versión
lang: Spanish
word: descripción
lang: Spanish
word: exégesis
lang: Spanish
word: exegesis
lang: Swedish
word: redogörelse
lang: Swedish
word: redovisning
lang: Tagalog
word: ulat
lang: Ukrainian
word: ви́кладення
roman: výkladennja
lang: Ukrainian
word: виклада́ння
roman: vykladánnja
lang: Ukrainian
word: ви́словлення
roman: výslovlennja
lang: Ukrainian
word: висло́влювання
roman: vyslóvljuvannja
lang: Ukrainian
word: о́пис
roman: ópys
lang: Ukrainian
word: описа́ння
roman: opysánnja
lang: Ukrainian
word: звіт
roman: zvit
lang: Ukrainian
word: справозда́ння
roman: spravozdánnja
lang: Ukrainian
word: ро́зповідь
roman: rózpovidʹ
lang: Ukrainian
word: пере́каз
roman: perékaz
lang: Vietnamese
word: chuyện kể
lang: Bulgarian
word: смятам
roman: smjatam
lang: Bulgarian
word: сметна
roman: smetna
lang: Finnish
word: laskea
lang: Middle English
word: acounten
lang: Tamil
word: எண்ணு
roman: eṇṇu