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Definition: Accident |
AccidentNoun1. A mishap; especially one causing injury or death. 2. Anything that happens by chance without an apparent cause. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "accident" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Accident \Ac"ci*dent\, noun. [French expression accident, from the Latin expression accidens, -dentis, present participle of accidere to happen; ad cadere to fall. See Cadence, Case.]. (references) |
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Satire | ACCIDENT, n. An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable natural laws. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
19th Century Satire | A condition of affairs in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body better. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of an accident is a warning to avoid any mode of travel for a short period, as you are threatened with loss of life. For an accident to befall stock, denotes that you will struggle with all your might to gain some object and then see some friend lose property of the same value in aiding your cause. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Accident A logical accident is some property or quality which a thing possesses, but which does not essentially belong to it, as the tint of our skin, the height of our body, the redness of a brick, or the whiteness of paper. If any of these were changed, the substance would remain intact. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Medicine | Any unintended event, including operating errors, equipment failures or other mishaps, the consequences or potential consequences of which are not negligible from the point of view of protection or safety. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Sudden unintentional action or event occurring at an unpredictable point in time causing harm to a person or persons. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Nuclear Energy & Physics | An incident relative to a nuclear plant whixh includes the possibility of a release of radioactivity. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Unforeseen event that causes damage to an installation or disrupts the normal operation of an installation, and is likely to result for one or more persons in a dose exceeding the dose limits. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Accident, Injury. Accident is sometimes used incorrectly for injury. as "His accident was very painful." Source: Slips of Speech. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An accident is something going wrong. Physical examples include an unintended collision (including a person or object unintendedly falling, and including a gun going off unintendedly or pointing in the wrong direction or while unintendedly containing a bullet), getting injured by touching something sharp, getting injured by not properly landing when jumping, etc. Non-physical examples are unintendedly revealing a secret or otherwise saying something stupid, forgetting an appointment, etc.Often accidents are investigated so that we can learn how to avoid them in the future. This is sometimes called root cause analysis.
Work accident
An accident at work is defined as an external, sudden and violent event, during the execution of work or arising out of it, which causes damage to the health of or loss of the life of the employee (the insured).
For qualification as an accident at work to apply, there must be a causal relationship (direct or indirect relationship of cause and effect) between the violent event and the work. Only if the accident is due to "wilful misrepresentation" on the part of the employer or the employer's appointed representative is the employer under an obligation to compensate the victim.
There is a significant proportion of work accidents occurring in the merchant marine.
See also: social security.
Bicycle accidents
A bicycle accident, an incident in which a bicycle ride goes wrong, can result in injury to the rider or another person in their path, and damage to the bicycle or nearby things. In 1842, an accident occurred which has been described as the earliest bicycle accident. Kirkpatrick McMillan, the inventor of the velocipede (an early bicycle), rode his new invention for 40 miles from his home to Glasgow. On his approach to the city, crowds gathered on the road and unfortunately Kirkpatrick collided with a young girl.
Although she was only very slightly injured, he was subsequently charged with causing the first ever bicycle accident. The judge could not believe Kirkpatrick had travelled the 40 miles to Glasgow in only five hours, but after much explaining, he was allowed to return home.
External link
- "Kirkpatrick McMillan and the Bicycle" - an opinion article from the Plainview Herald, by Robert R. McMillan, dated Friday, June 18, 1999
Accident is a drama film from 1967, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, and Jacqueline Sassard. The running time is (105 minutes).
Attention: Wikipedia contains spoilers
The story centers on a married Oxford professor, Stephen, who is experiencing a mid-life crisis. The world changes for him when he meets Anna, a beautiful young woman who is engaged to one of his students. The young woman is forced to stay with the professor and his wife following an accident outside of their home in which the student to whom she is engaged was killed. While the Oxford professor believes that he is in control of the events that will eventually lead to the destruction of his marriage, we soon discover that Anna isn't so innocent. The crowning metaphor of the film comes at the end when we see an unhurt Anna (in a flashback) crushing her dying fiancée beneath her spike-heeled foot as she steps on his face while trying desperately to climb out of the overturned car.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Accident."
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Accident is a town located in Garrett County, Maryland. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 353.Geography
Accident is located at 39°37'41" North, 79°19'12" West (39.628074, -79.319996)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.3 km² (0.5 mi²). 1.3 km² (0.5 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.Demographics
As of the census2 of 2000, there are 353 people, 138 households, and 96 families residing in the town. The population density is 272.6/km² (711.1/mi²). There are 162 housing units at an average density of 125.1/km² (326.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 99.72% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.28% from two or more races. 0.00% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 138 households out of which 37.7% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.3% are married couples living together, 12.3% have a female householder with no husband present, and 30.4% are non-families. 28.3% of all households are made up of individuals and 21.7% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.56 and the average family size is 3.14. In the town the population is spread out with 29.2% under the age of 18, 7.1% from 18 to 24, 22.4% from 25 to 44, 18.4% from 45 to 64, and 22.9% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 38 years. For every 100 females there are 73.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 73.6 males. The median income for a household in the town is $22,500, and the median income for a family is $40,556. Males have a median income of $25,250 versus $18,750 for females. The per capita income for the town is $11,950. 17.5% of the population and 10.9% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 17.3% are under the age of 18 and 24.1% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Accident, Maryland."
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STS-107 was a space shuttle mission by NASA using the Space Shuttle Columbia. The entire seven member crew was killed on February 1, 2003, when the shuttle disintegrated over Texas during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere.This was the second total loss of a Space Shuttle, the first being Challenger.
Crew of STS-107 on launch day
( Close up of faces and names)
Introduction
At about 09:00 EST (14:00 UTC) on February 1, 2003, NASA's Mission Control at Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas lost radio contact with the space shuttle Columbia, at the end of mission STS-107, as it descended from orbit towards Cape Canaveral, near the John F. Kennedy Space Center and Jacksonville, Florida.
Contact was lost while the shuttle was flying at about 203,000 feet (38 miles or 62,000 metres) above north central Texas, at over 12,500 miles per hour (20,000 kilometres per hour = 6 km/s = Mach 18). At time of the communications disruption Mission Control was discussing abnormal sensor readings with Columbia. Columbia began their last message with the words "Roger, uh, buh..." but nothing more was transmitted. Telemetry and tracking data appeared to be lost at the same time. The shuttle was expected to land at 09:16 EST.
Shortly after being told of reports of pieces of the shuttle being seen to break away, the NASA flight director declared a contingency (events leading to loss of the vehicle) and alerted search and rescue teams in the area, telling all controllers to "lock the doors", meaning preserve all data for an investigation.
At 14:04 EST, a somber President Bush addressed the nation: "This day has brought terrible news and great sadness to our country... The Columbia is lost; there are no survivors." Despite the major setback, the President reassured Americans that the space program would continue: "The cause in which they died will continue... Our journey into space will go on."
The shuttle program was suspended. NASA also issued warnings to the public that any debris could contain hazardous chemicals, that it should be left untouched, its location reported to local emergency services or government authorities and that anyone in unauthorized possession of debris would be prosecuted.
With the Shuttle program suspended, the expansion of International Space Station was also delayed, as the space shuttles were the delivery vehicle for station modules. The station was supplied and crews exchanged using Russian manned Soyuz spacecraft and unmanned Progress ships. Russia's space shuttle program was shut down in 1993.
During their mission, the crew had paid tribute to the crews of the Space Shuttle Challenger, lost during launch on January 28, 1986, and Apollo 1, killed in a fire on January 27, 1967.
Early theories and analysis
The re-entry was being shown live on TV as Columbia flew over Dallas, Texas. Video footage showed initially two then multiple smoke trails and flaming debris trails in the sky. Later, amateur video footage was broadcast showing the disaster from several different angles. It was clear that Columbia had suffered a catastrophic structural or mechanical failure.
At about 05:54 PST (08:54 EST), a California news photographer observed pieces breaking away from the shuttle as it passed overhead, as well as a red flare coming from the shuttle itself.
Roughly nine minutes later, at about 9:05, residents of north central Texas reported a loud boom, a small concussion wave and smoke trails and debris in the clear skies above the counties southeast of Dallas. More than 2,000 debris fields, as well as human remains, were found in sparsely populated areas southeast of Dallas from Nacogdoches in eastern Texas, where a lot of debris fell, to western Louisiana and the southwestern counties of Arkansas. Pieces of debris fell from the sky for many minutes and were reported in fields, on roads, and striking buildings, causing some damage and starting some small structure and grass fires. Some minor injuries were also reported as a result of people handling hot items of wreckage, with several dozen going to hospital, although no-one was reported as having been hit by falling debris.
NASA's Space Shuttle Program Manager, Ron Dittemore, reported that "The first indication was loss of temperature sensors and hydraulic systems on the left wing. They were followed seconds and minutes later by several other problems, including loss of tire pressure indications on the left main gear and then indications of excessive structural heating."
Analysis of 31 seconds of telemetry data which had initially been filtered out because of data corruption within it showed the shuttle fighting to maintain its orientation, eventually using maximum thrust from its reaction control system jets.
Upon procedural review the day after lift-off of video taken during lift-off, it was observed that a piece of insulation foam falling from an external fuel tank had appeared to strike the shuttle's left wing. After some deliberation, it was concluded that the "event did not present a safety concern". The initial post-accident view remained that it could not have been the cause.
STS-107 had been delayed for 6 months (the original launch date was 19 July 2002) because of cracks in the propellant feed lines to the 3 main engines - a defect that could have caused catastrophic failure. There were suggestions of a connection between this and the disaster.
With the addition of the first Israeli astronaut to the crew, security surrounding the launch and landing of the space shuttle had been increased to avoid any potential terrorist attack. The Cape Canaveral launch facility, like all sensitive government areas, had increased security measures put in place in the wake of the September 11 attack. Because of the high altitude of the shuttle when the incident occurred, it was thought highly unlikely that terrorist actions were involved. Gordon Johndroe, spokesman for the United States Department of Homeland Security, stated: "There is no information at this time that this was a terrorist incident."
The Columbia Accident Investigation Board, working with NASA
Following protocols established after the loss of Challenger an independent investigating board was created immediately following the accident. The Columbia Accident Investigation Board, or CAIB, consisted of expert military and civilian analysts who investigated the accident in great detail.
Columbia's data recorder was found near Hemphill, Texas on March 20, 2003. Because Columbia was more of a test vehicle than the other orbiters, the data recorder contained very extensive logs of structural and other data which allowed the CAIB to reconstruct many of the events during the process leading to breakup, often using the loss of signals from sensors on the wing to track how the damage progressed. This was correlated with analysis of debris and tests to obtain a final conclusion about the probable events.
NASA officials released experimental findings on May 30 proving that the insulation known to have hit the leading edge of Columbia's left wing could have created a gap in between protective heat panels. The findings showed that a joint, known as a T-seal, shifted after being hit with foam insulation traveling at the same speed the actual foam was traveling when it hit the left wing. The gap was small, 0.6 cm x 55 cm, but some researchers not on the investigation team have stated that a gap of that size was sufficiently large enough to act as a catalyst for further widening during re-entry. On June 24, the investigators have more confidently stated the flyaway foam to be "the most probable cause" of the wing damage.
On August 26, 2003, the CAIB issued its report on the accident. The board report confirmed the immediate cause of the accident as a breach in the leading edge of the left wing, caused by insulating foam shed during launch. The report also delved deeply into the underlying organizational and cultural issues that led to the accident. The report was highly critical of NASA's decision-making and risk-assessment processes, to the point of concluding that whoever was in the key decision-making positions, the systems and roles were arranged so that safety compromise could be expected. This included the position of Shuttle Program Manager, a role in which one individual was responsible for achieving safety, timely launches and acceptable costs, each a goal conflicting with the others. It found that NASA had institutionally accepted unacceptable deviations from design criteria as normal when they happened on several flights and did not lead to fatal consequences. One of those was the conflict between a design specification saying that the heat shielding system did not need to withstand impact damage and the common occurrence of impact damage to it during flight. It made recommendations for significant changes in processes and culture
In late July 2003, an Associated Press poll revealed that Americans' support for the space program remained strong, despite the tragedy. Two-thirds believed the space shuttle should continue to fly and nearly three-quarters said that the space program was a good investment. On the question of sending humans to Mars, 49 percent thought it was a good idea, while 42 percent opposed it. Support slipped for sending civilians like teachers into space with 56 percent supporting the idea and 38 percent opposed.
Shuttle Crew of Flight STS-107
On March 26 the United States House of Representatives' Science Committee approved funds for the construction of a memorial at Arlington National Cemetery for the STS-107 crew. A similar memorial was built at the cemetery for the last crew of Space Shuttle Challenger.
- Commander: Rick D. Husband, a US Air Force colonel and mechanical engineer, who piloted a previous shuttle during the first docking with the International Space Station.
- Pilot: William C. McCool, a US Navy commander
- Payload Commander: Michael P. Anderson, a US Air Force lieutenant colonel and physicist who was in charge of the science mission.
- Payload Specialist: Ilan Ramon, a colonel in the Israeli Air Force and the first Israeli astronaut.
- Mission Specialist: Kalpana Chawla, an Indian-born aerospace engineer on her second space mission.
- Mission Specialist: David M. Brown, a US Navy captain trained as an aviator and flight surgeon. Brown worked on a number of scientific experiments.
- Mission Specialist: Laurel Clark, a US Navy commander and flight surgeon. Clark worked on a number of biological experiments.
On August 6, 2003 NASA announced [1] that seven asteroids discovered in July 2001 at the Mount Palomar observatory were named in honor of the seven astronauts: 51823 Rickhusband, 51824 Mikeanderson, 51825 Davidbrown, 51826 Kalpanachawla, 51827 Laurelclark, 51828 Ilanramon, 51829 Williemccool.
See also: List of space disasters
External Links
- NASA flight STS-107
- Columbia Accident Investigation Board
- Shuttle Orbiter Columbia (OV-102)
- President Bush's address to the nation - February 1, 2003
- President Bush's remarks at memorial service - February 4, 2003
- Columbia Loss FAQ - a discussion of the Columbia disaster
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Space Shuttle Columbia disaster."
Synonyms: AccidentSynonyms: chance event (n), fortuity (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Adversity | Mishap, mischance, misadventure, misfortune; disaster, calamity, catastrophe; accident, casualty, cross, reverse, check, contretemps, rub; backset, comedown, setback. |
Chance 2 | Phrase: " grasps the skirts of happy chance "; " the accident of an accident ". "There but for the grace of God go I." |
Noun: chance, indetermination, accident, fortune, hazard, hap, haphazard, chance medley, random, luck, raccroc, casualty, contingence, adventure, hit; fate; (necessity); equal chance; lottery; tombola; toss up; turn of the table, turn of the cards; hazard of the die, chapter of accidents, fickle finger of fate; cast of the dice, throw of the dice; heads or tails, flip of a coin, wheel of Fortune; sortes, sortes Virgilianae. | |
Adverb: by chance, accidentally, by accident; casually; perchance; (possibly); for aught one knows; as good would have it, as bad would have it, as luck would have it, as ill-luck would have it, as chance would have it; as it may be, as it may chance, as it may turn up, as it may happen; as the case may be. | |
Eventuality | Business, concern, transaction, dealing, proceeding; circumstance, particular, casualty, accident, adventure, passage, crisis, pass, emergency, contingency, consequence; opportunity (occasion). |
Evil | Disaster, accident, casualty; mishap; (misfortune); bad job, devil to pay; calamity, bale, catastrophe, tragedy; ruin; (destruction); adversity. |
Extrinsicality | Noun: extrinsicality, objectiveness, non ego; extraneousness; accident; appearance, phenomenon. |
Killing | Fatal accident, violent death, casualty. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | See the way the handle on her pruning shears matches her gardening clogs? That's not an accident. (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) It was an accident! (The Addams Family; writing credit: Caroline Thompson) Don't do that, you would be dead before you even knew you had an accident. (The Lost World: Jurassic Park; writing credit: David Koepp) It was an accident. (Rush Hour 2; writing credit: Jeff Nathanson) Twice I took the name of the Lord in vain, once I slept with the brother of my fiancee, and once I bounced a check at the liquor store, but that was really an accident. (Moonstruck; writing credit: John Patrick Shanley. Starring Cher as Loretta Castorini and Nicolas Cage as Ronny Cammareri.) | |
Lyrics | Got into an accident and couldn't come to school (Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm; performing artist: Crash Test Dummies) Understand I'm accident prone (Wishing I Was There; performing artist: Natalie Imbruglia) It was no accident me finding you (The Keeper Of The Stars; performing artist: TRACY BYRD) | |
Clever | Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors. (references; author: Mark Twain) After hearing two eyewitness accounts of the same accident, you begin to wonder about history. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Accident (1973) L' Accident (1963) Nearly a Nasty Accident (1961) Anatomy of an Accident (1961) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Motor vehicle accident scene. Credit: CDC. |  | Accident resulted from use of alcohol. All three had been drinking. Credit: CDC. |
 | Edwin J. Brown Electronics whiz; geodesist; geophysicist 1899-1935 Died in auto accident. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Brown pendulum apparatus gravity meter Named for its inventor, Lt. E. J. Brown, C&GS Lt. Brown died in an automobile accident in 1935. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | An early balloon accident in: "Histoire des Ballons et des Aeronautes Celebres," by Gaston Tissandier, 1887, p. 21. Library Call Number TL616 .T57 1887. Credit: Treasures of the Library. |  | The death of Pilatre de Rozier during an attempt to cross the English Channel. June 15, 1785. Rozier was the first aeronaut to lose his life as the result of an accident. In: "Histoire des Ballons et des Aeronautes Celebres," by Gaston Tissandier, 1887, p. 95. Library Call Number TL616 .T57 1887. Credit: Treasures of the Library. |
 | A T-6A Texan II like this one crashed Aug. 31 when one of the crew members inadvertently placed the airplane's power control lever in the cutoff position, according to the accident report. The two-person crew, a pilot and an instructor pilot, ejected and. |  | New York City.-The Hospital Ambulance Service-An Accident To A Factory-Hand. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Accident Ward / Robert Riggs. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Who was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism during a fireroom accident aboard USS Iowa (BB-4) on 20 July 1898, during the Spanish-American War. Credit: NAVY. |
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| "Imperfect Coffee" by Bill Bradbury Commentary: "It was an accident." | "My son" by Tracy Woodward Commentary: "This great photo of my son was taken by accident. Again free to use just want to know where and what for. Thanks." |
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 | Skidded; skidding; skid; car accident; crash; automobile accident; impact; collision; accident; crunch; smash; smashed; smashing; fender tag; fender-bender; pileup; ram; rear-ender; shock; sideswipe; smash; smash-up; stack-up; thud; thump; total; washout. | | Skid; skidding; tire; tires; car accident; skidded; screech. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Charles Lamb | The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good act by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. |
Francis Thompson | An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident. |
Gamaliel Bailey | What men call accident is the doing of God's providence. |
Henry Brooks Adams | Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. |
Josiah Gilbert Holland | Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power. |
Schiller | What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment. |
Thomas Carlyle | Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man. |
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Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | The accident has happened on board My ship, and under My orders |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | But popular? Only in the sense that a serious accident on the motorway might be popular -- everyone slows down to have a good look, but no one will get too close to the flames |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Javert, who came up at the moment of the accident, had sent for a jack |
Neverwhere | Neil Gaiman | BE A MAN - DO YOURSELF IN. HAVE A FATAL ACCIDENT TODAY |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | My journey was without any accident or adventure worth relating |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Some don't want to leave the house out of fear they might have an accident in public. (references) | |
Even people who don't have fecal incontinence can have an accident when they have diarrhea. (references) | ||
Many gallstones, especially silent stones, are discovered by accident during tests for other problems. (references) | ||
Business | If an accident occurs, a worker is entitled to fair compensation. (references) | |
The remaining ten percent ($157.7 million) consisted of personal accident and burial insurance. (references) | ||
In terms of work-related accident insurance, companies estimate a potential of some $1.5 billion annually. (references) | ||
Children | Bangladesh | Advocacy, networking, and accident prevention also is provided. (references) |
Liberia | Persons with Disabilities As a result of the civil war, a large number of persons have permanent disabilities, in addition to those disabled by accident or illness. (references) | |
Belarus | The authorities are committed to children's welfare and health, particularly to overcoming the consequences of the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, and, with the help of foreign donors, they have tried to give children special attention. (references) | |
Economic History | Lesotho | After Moshoeshoe II died in a car accident in 1996, King Letsie III ascended to the throne again. (references) |
Bulgaria | In general the automotive and especially the accident repair car business is one of the fastest growing in Bulgaria. (references) | |
Belarus | The most serious environmental issue in Belarus results from the accident at the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant. (references) | |
Human Rights | Nicaragua | The judge ruled that the shooting was an accident. (references) |
Brazil | The victim was involved in a car accident but was not injured. (references) | |
Brazil | Doctors concluded that these bruises were not a consequence of the car accident. (references) | |
Political Economy | CZECH REPUBLIC | Industrial accident rates are not unusually high. (references) |
PORTUGAL | Employers are legally responsible for accidents at work and are required to carry accident insurance. (references) | |
REPUBLIC OF KOREA | Due to an insufficient number of inspectors, the government's health and safety standards are not always effectively enforced, but the accident rate continues to decline. (references) | |
Trade | Ukraine | Our activities address the urgent humanitarian and health needs of the people of Ukraine by: 1) supporting the government in moving from universal housing and communal services subsidies to targeted social services; 2) providing humanitarian assistance and strengthening the ability of non-governmental organizations to deliver social services; 3) laying the foundation for a sustainable system of pensions and social insurance; 4) providing training and supplies to improve the quality of and access to reproductive health care and the screening for and treatment of breast cancer; 5) supporting health partnerships for the promotion of primary health care and exchange of information, training and personnel; 6) providing thyroid cancer screening and psycho-social interventions to child victims of the Chernobyl accident, while strengthening the Ukrainian government's ability to respond to health and environmental crises; and 7) providing technical assistance in addressing both the TB and the STI/HIV/AIDS epidemics. (references) |
Travel | Sri Lanka | The cause of the accident is still unknown. (references) |
Kuwait | Vehicle accident and death rates are particularly high in Kuwait. (references) | |
Women | India | This harassment sometimes ends in the woman's death, which family members often try to portray as a suicide or kitchen accident; research suggests that a significant percentage of kerosene attacks also are due to domestic violence. (references) |
Worker Rights | United Arab Emirates | Twenty-one workers were injured in a single accident in January. (references) |
Djibouti | Instead they must provide either government or private accident insurance. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. So wide his erudition's mighty span, He knew Creation's origin and plan And only came by accident to grief -- He thought, poor man, 'twas right to be a thief. Romach Pute |
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Andrew Weil | Look, I say, if I'm in an automobile accident, I don't want to first go to a shaman or an herbalist, I want to go to a trauma center and get put back together. |
Art Linkletter | So losing two out of five. Suicide from having been given LSD and a son in an automobile accident. So I have had tragedies. |
Bob Costas | I did the NBA Finals, because it was--and I filled in on a handful of games when Marv Albert had an automobile accident. This was our last time around at NBC. And I'll still host the Olympics every other year. |
Karl Lagerfeld | This is an accident. I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea. |
Lynne Cheney | In Washington, D.C. And the first plane went in, and like everyone else, I thought and the security people with me thought that it was an accident. |
Rush Limbaugh | One of the most appalling things about the coverage of the space shuttle accident has been the Democrats' attempt to exploit the tragedy for petty political gain. |
William Shatner | That's not good enough. You have to know I'm right. You have you to feel it in your bones! You have to know, the story doesn't happen by accident. You have to create it. You have to put it there. |
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Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | We have built up, moreover, a great system of government, which has stood through a long age as in many respects a model for those who seek to set liberty upon foundations that will endure against fortuitous change, against storm and accident. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | In response, the President established the Kemeny Commission to review the accident and make recommendations. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Nineteen years ago, almost to the day, we lost three astronauts in a terrible accident on the ground. |
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| "Accident" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.67% of the time. "Accident" is used about 6,413 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.67% | 6,392 | 1,519 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.33% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6,413 | N/A |
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| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Nationwide Accident Repair Services P.L.C. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Accident, MD (town, FIPS 225) |
Expressions using "accident": accident and emergency unit ♦ accident at sea ♦ accident benefit ♦ accident causation ♦ accident consequence model ♦ accident contributory factor ♦ accident factor ♦ accident having only a medical origin ♦ Accident insurance ♦ accident involving one vehicle only ♦ accident on the way to and from work ♦ accident prevention ♦ accident prone ♦ Accident Proneness ♦ accident report ♦ accident risk ♦ accident shiel ♦ accident surgery ♦ accident to a third party ♦ accident while travelling ♦ aircraft accident ♦ among the witnesses of the accident ♦ bring about an accident ♦ by accident ♦ car accident ♦ Cerebrovascular Accident ♦ commuting accident ♦ design basis accident ♦ electric accident ♦ fatal accident ♦ get over an accident ♦ have an accident ♦ industrial accident ♦ inevitable accident ♦ investigation of accident ♦ leave nothing to accident ♦ leaving scene of accident ♦ loss of coolant accident ♦ major manageable accident ♦ maximum credible accident ♦ meet with an accident ♦ motor accident ♦ no claim for accident reported ♦ non fatal accident ♦ nuclear weapon accident ♦ nuclear weapons accident ♦ occupational accident ♦ offender by accident ♦ pit accident ♦ railway accident ♦ road accident ♦ scene of accident ♦ scene of the accident ♦ statistical accident data ♦ street accident ♦ traffic accident ♦ work accident ♦ wound in an accident. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "accident": accident-free, accident-prone, accident-proneness. | |
Ending with "accident": pre-accident. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
accident | 2,033 | train accident | 111 |
car accident | 2,024 | car accident photo | 108 |
auto accident | 407 | car accident report | 99 |
motorcycle accident | 316 | accident insurance | 98 |
automobile accident | 305 | aircraft accident | 97 |
traffic accident | 292 | cerebral vascular accident | 95 |
accident investigation | 263 | aviation accident | 90 |
car accident picture | 251 | motorcycle accident picture | 88 |
accident report | 240 | crane accident | 87 |
car accident article | 224 | motor vehicle accident | 86 |
roller coaster accident | 205 | accident jay motorcycle williams | 77 |
construction accident | 183 | accident article car newspaper | 72 |
accident picture | 181 | car accident lawyer | 69 |
accident photo | 166 | industrial accident | 69 |
farm accident | 166 | car accident death | 68 |
auto accident lawyer | 153 | auto accident attorney | 67 |
drunk driving accident | 148 | vehicle accident | 67 |
accident reconstruction | 141 | accident claim | 67 |
truck accident | 123 | boating accident | 62 |
accident jay williams | 114 | accident video | 62 |
accident at work | 62 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "accident"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | ongeluk. (various references) | |
Albanian | aksident (casualty, misadventure, smash). (various references) | |
Arabic | مصادفة (accidental, by chance, chance, coincidence, fortuitously, fortuity, haphazard, hazard, occurrence), نكبة (calamity, catastrophe, disaster, disgrace), حادثة (case, episode, event, fact, happening, incident, occasion, occurrence), حادث (episode, happening, incident, make a speech, mishap, palaver), عرض صفة غير جوهرية (accidental), صدفة (accidentally, at a venture, chance, coincidence, contingency, haphazard, happening, incidentally, scallop, seashell, shell). (various references) | |
Basque | istripu. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | случайност (accidental, chance, contingency, contingent, fortuitousness, fortuity, mischance), катастрофа (catastrophe, crash, disaster, fatality, prang, shunt, smash, smash up), несъществено качество, несъществено обстоятелство, неравност (asperity, bump, inequality, irregularity, rough, roughness, unevenness), нещастен случай (casualty, misadventure, mischance, mishap), нещастие (adversity, affliction, buffet, desolation, distress, evil, fatality, hard luck, infelicity, misery, misfortune, sorrow, stroke, trouble, unhappiness), злополука (misadventure, mischance, mishap), премеждие (misadventure, mishap). (various references) | |
Catalan | desgràcia. (various references) | |
Chinese | 事故. (various references) | |
Czech | nehoda (casualty, incident, misadventure, mishap), neštìstí (affliction, casualty, disaster, infelicity, unhappiness, woe), náhoda (chance, coincidence, contingent, fortuity, fortune, hap, hazard, random), úraz (injury, trauma). (various references) | |
Danish | ulykkestilfælde (dislocation, disturbance), ulykke (calamity, casualty). (various references) | |
Dutch | ongeval (casualty, loss), ongeluk (misfortune), accident. (various references) | |
Esperanto | akcidento. (various references) | |
Faeroese | vanlukka. (various references) | |
Farsi | علامت سلاح , اتفاقی (Casual, Chance, Chanceful, Chancy, Chromatic, Haphazard), صرف (Etymology, Expenditure, Sheer, Stark), صفت عرضی , ضمنی (Incident, Tacit), عارضه صرفی , شیی ء , علامت بدمرض , پیشامد (Circumstance, Event, Exigency, Occurrence), سانحه , تصادف اتومبیل , تصادفی (Chanceful, Chancy, Chromatic, Extraneous, Random), حادثه (Accidence, Adventure, Fortuity, Incident, Phenomenon), واقعه ناگوار, مصیبت ناگهانی . (various references) | |
Finnish | tapaturma, onnettomuus (calamity, disaster, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, unhappiness), sattuma (accidence, chance, hazard, incident). (various references) | |
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