 6 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
accident
noun
1: a mishap; especially one causing injury or death
2: anything that happens by chance without an apparent cause
[syn: {fortuity}, {chance event}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Accident \Ac"ci*dent\, noun [F. accident, fr. L. accidens,
-dentis, p. pr. of accidere to happen; ad + cadere to fall.
See {Cadence}, {Case}.]
1. Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without
one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and
unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an
undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or
unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by
an accident.
Of moving accidents by flood and field. --Shak.
Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident:
It is the very place God meant for thee. --Trench.
2. (Gram.) A property attached to a word, but not essential
to it, as gender, number, case.
3. (Her.) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in
a coat of arms.
4. (Log.)
(a) A property or quality of a thing which is not
essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute.
(b) A quality or attribute in distinction from the
substance, as sweetness, softness.
5. Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental
or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident.
This accident, as I call it, of Athens being
situated some miles from the sea. --J. P.
Mahaffy.
6. Unusual appearance or effect. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Note: Accident, in Law, is equivalent to casus, or such
unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as
is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
77 Moby Thesaurus words for "accident":
accessary, accessory, accidental, addendum, addition, adjunct,
adventure, appendage, appurtenance, auxiliary, blow, blunder,
calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, chance, chance hit,
collateral, collision, coming to be, contingency, contingent,
contretemps, crack-up, crash, destiny, disaster, event,
eventuality, eventuation, extra, fate, fluke, fortuity, fortune,
freak accident, grief, hap, happening, happenstance, hazard,
ill hap, incidence, incidental, inessential, kismet, long odds,
long shot, luck, lucky shot, materialization, mere chance,
misadventure, mischance, misfortune, mishap, mistake, nasty blow,
nonessential, not-self, other, pileup, realization, secondary,
serendipity, shipwreck, shock, smash, smashup, staggering blow,
subsidiary, superaddition, supplement, tragedy, unessential,
wreck
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
ACCIDENT, noun An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable
natural laws.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Accident, MD (town, FIPS 225)
Location: 39.62694 N, 79.32088 W
Population (1990): 349 (155 housing units)
Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 21520
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Accident, MD -- U.S. town in Maryland
Population (2000): 353
Housing Units (2000): 162
Land area (2000): 0.496408 sq. miles (1.285690 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.496408 sq. miles (1.285690 sq. km)
FIPS code: 00225
Located within: Maryland (MD), FIPS 24
Location: 39.628074 N, 79.319996 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 21520
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Accident, MD
Accident
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