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"ACCIDENTS" is a plural of: accident. |
Date "ACCIDENTS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Accidents in theology. After consecration, say the Catholics, the substance of the bread and wine is changed into that of the body and blood of Christ, but their accidents (flavour, appearance, and so on) remain the same as before. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: ACCIDENTSSynonyms: Accidents generally, Automobile accidents, Crashes, Automotive, Motor vehicle accidents. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Chance 2 | 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. |
Eventuality | The world, life, things, doings, affairs in general; things in general, affairs in general; the times, state of affairs, order of the day; course of things, tide of things, stream of things, current of things, run of things, march of things, course of events; ups and downs of life, vicissitudes of life; chapter of accidents; (chance); situation; (circumstances). |
Evil | Phrase: "moving accidents by flood and field". |
Intention | Toss up; cast lots, draw lots; leave to chance, trust to chance, leave to the chapter of accidents, trust to the chapter of accidents; tempt fortune; chance it, take one's chance, take a shot at it (attempt); run the risk, run the chance, incur the risk, incur the chance, encounter the risk, encounter the chance; stand the hazard of the die. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: ACCIDENTS |
| English words defined with "ACCIDENTS": accident surgery, accident-prone, automobile insurance ♦ Brick trimmer ♦ car insurance, causeless, crash helmet ♦ fortuitous ♦ Indicatrix ♦ lifeguard, lifesaver ♦ miscue ♦ Night spell ♦ parapraxis ♦ Railway spine, road sense ♦ slip, slip-up ♦ traumatology ♦ uncaused. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ACCIDENTS": Accidents, Radiation, Accidents, Traffic ♦ Chapter of Accidents, coverage of accidents statistics ♦ reporting level of accidents. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ACCIDENTS": Accidence. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "ACCIDENTS" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (ups and downs). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I hope not, but accidents do happen. (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein) Course in 1986 46,400 male drivers were definitely involved in fatal accidents. (Rain Man; writing credit: Ronald Bass) Oh, he has that in case of accidents. (Another Fine Mess; writing credit: Arthur J. Jefferson; H.M. Walker) Oh, right, there was one other rule I forgot: Accidents happen. (Kingdom Hearts; writing credit: Billy Gallo; Robert Gillings) Work hard, increase production, prevent accidents and be happy. (THX 1138; writing credit: George Lucas;) | |
Lyrics | So take it from me you'll learn more from your accidents (You're Only Human (Second Wind); performing artist: Billy Joel) | |
Clever | If You Drink Don't Park, Accidents Cause People. (references; author: unknown) Most accidents happen at home. Maybe we should move. (references; author: unknown) Old folks say, "Kids in the back seat cause accidents; accidents in the back seat cause kids. (references; author: unknown) Man blames fate for other accidents, but feels personally responsible when he makes a hole-in-one! (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Accidents Will Happen (1964) Part 3: Four Ways to Kill Explosives - Accidents (1963) Accidents Will Happen (1938) Accidental Accidents (1924) Accidents Will Happen (1922) | |
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 | In HYDROLAB's twenty years, no serious hyperbaric accidents occurred. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | Home accidents are as frequent in Syria as anywhere else. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by G. Nemeh.. |
 | The Detroit News timely topics. Monument of traffic accidents. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Red Cross first aid 1,000,000 persons have learned the right way--the Red Cross way--of cheating death from accidents. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Aristotle | The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. |
Oscar Wilde | Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life. |
Thomas B. Macaulay | We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | They will wish, and seek for the opportunity, which in the change, weakness and accidents of human affairs, seldom delays long to offer itself. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | And here I speak particularly of the myriad cottage or apartment homes where the wage-earner strives amid the accidents and difficulties of life to guard his wife and children from privation and bring the family up in the fear of the Lord, or upon ethical conceptions which often play their potent part. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The accidents of my life have often afforded me this advantage, but never with more fulness and variety than during my continuance in office. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Accidents happen there. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | These diversions are often attended with fatal accidents, whereof great numbers are on record. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The number and severity of workplace accidents also tend to increase during the night shift. (references) | |
Fatal injury-from accidents, including motor vehicle fatalities, suffered while intoxicated. (references) | ||
T. cruzi can also be transmitted through blood transfusion, transplacentally, and in laboratory accidents. (references) | ||
Business | In addition, in France, the number of car accidents is substantial. (references) | |
In 1996 according to Ministry of Labor statistics, the number of industrial accidents dropped. (references) | ||
In France, the percentage of deaths from car accidents is two times greater than in the United States. (references) | ||
Children | Brazil | Of all deaths of 15- to 19-year-olds, 72 percent are due to causes such as homicide, suicide, and traffic accidents, which reduces by at least 3 years the average life expectancy of men. (references) |
Mongolia | Those who have been injured in industrial accidents have the right to be reemployed when ready to resume work, and the Government offers free retraining in 6 fields at a central technical school. (references) | |
Economic History | Morocco | It also covers occupational diseases or accidents not covered by workers' compensation. (references) |
Human Rights | Malaysia | Civil suits involving automobile accidents and landlord-tenant disputes are heard by sessions courts. (references) |
Lebanon | Since the Israeli withdrawal in May 2000, there have been 26 deaths and 167 injuries as a result of landmine accidents. (references) | |
Tanzania | In previous years, such events were so common that they often were grouped together in newspapers with reporting on car accidents and other mishaps. (references) | |
Political Economy | UKRAINE | Mining accidents claimed the lives of 216 miners during the first half of the year. (references) |
PORTUGAL | Employers are legally responsible for accidents at work and are required to carry accident insurance. (references) | |
HONG KONG | In 2000, a total of 58,092 occupational accidents (33,652 of which are classified as industrial accidents) were reported, of which 199 were fatal. (references) | |
Travel | Russia | Drivers and pedestrians should exercise extreme caution to avoid accidents. (references) |
Nepal | Visitors are cautioned to avoid traveling on night buses - fatal accidents are frequent. (references) | |
El Salvador | Buses run throughout the country, but are often targets for crime and involved in accidents. (references) | |
Women | Pakistan | Most of the victims were burned to death, allegedly in kitchen stove accidents; some women reportedly were burned with acid. (references) |
Uruguay | A 1999 Ministry of Public Health study projected that within 5 years, domestic violence would constitute the second most prevalent threat to public health, after traffic accidents. (references) | |
Worker Rights | India | Chemical industries are the most prone to accidents. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | The many distressing accidents which have of late occurred in that portion of our navigation carried on by the use of steam power deserve the immediate and unremitting attention of the constituted authorities of the country. |
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| "ACCIDENTS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ACCIDENTS" is used about 1,973 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 (plural) | 100% | 1,973 | 4,359 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "ACCIDENTS": barring accidents ♦ chapter of accidents ♦ coverage of accidents statistics ♦ demand for road use, accidents and their gravity ♦ rate of accidents ♦ reporting level of accidents ♦ The chapter of accidents. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "ACCIDENTS": accidents-injured. | |
Ending with "ACCIDENTS": road-accidents. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ACCIDENTS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | بإستثناء الحوادث (barring accidents). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | attest for ret til naturalydelser fra forsikringen mod arbejdsulykker og erhverssygdomme (certificate of entitlement to benefits in kind under insurance against accidents at work and occupational diseases), ulykkeshyppighed (rate of accidents), uheldsstatistikkens dækningsgrad (coverage, coverage of accidents statistics), tid,der tilbringes på arbejdspladsen i døde perioder,f.eks.som følge af lejlighedsvis mangel på arbejde,maskinstop eller ulykker (for example, idle time spent at the place of work because, of temporary lack of work, the breakdown of machinery or accidents), indberetningsniveau (reporting level, reporting level of accidents), havariregister (register of accidents), erstatning for arbejdsuheld eller erhvervssygdomme (compensation for accidents when on duty or occupational diseases), EF-databank vedrørende færdselsulykker (CARE, Community database on road accidents), Det rådgivende Udvalg for demonstrationsprojektet med henblik på oprettelse af et informationssystem på fællesskabsplan for ulykker,der sker i forbindelse med Forbrugsprodukter (Advisory Committee on the Demonstration Project with a view to Introducing a Community System of Information on Accidents involving Consumer Products), dækningsgrad (coverage, coverage of accidents statistics, required reserves), CARE (CARE, Community database on road accidents), blanket E123 (certificate of entitlement to benefits in kind under insurance against accidents at work and occupational diseases). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ongelukken. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tapaturmien raportointitaso (reporting level, reporting level of accidents), tapaturmatilastojen peittävyys (coverage, coverage of accidents statistics), peittävyys (concentration, coverage, coverage of accidents statistics). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | accidents du travail signalés (reporting level of accidents), attestation de droit aux prestations en nature de l'assurance contre les accidents du travail et les maladies professionnelles (certificate of entitlement to benefits in kind under insurance against accidents at work and occupational diseases), livret de protêt (register of accidents), banque de données communautaire sur les accidents de la circulation routière (Community database on road accidents), CARE (Community database on road accidents), Comité consultatif pour le projet de démonstration en vue de l'institution d'un système communautaire d'information sur les accidents dans lesquels sont impliqués des produits de consommation (Advisory Committee on the Demonstration Project with a view to Introducing a Community System of Information on Accidents involving Consumer Products), couverture (coverage of accidents statistics), couverture des données relatives aux accidents (coverage of accidents statistics), fonds d'accidents de travail (Accidents at Work Fund), Fonds des accidents du travail (Accidents at Work Fund), formulaire E123 (certificate of entitlement to benefits in kind under insurance against accidents at work and occupational diseases), moins d'accident (barring accidents), temps passé sur le lieu de travail en temps morts,en raison,par exemple,du manque occasionnel de travail,d'arrêts de machines ou d'accidents (the breakdown of machinery or accidents), Loi sur les accidents de navigation aérienne civile (Civil Aviation Accidents Act), Loi sur les accidents du travail des gens de mer (Seamen's Accidents Insurance Act), modèle de la demande routière, des accidents et leur gravité (accidents and their gravity), modélisation des accidents dans un coeur (modelling of core accidents), niveau de déclaration (reporting level of accidents), nombre d'accidents déclarés (reporting level of accidents), phénoménologie des accidents sévères (phenomenology of severe accidents), statistique sur les accidents et sur les incidents graves (statistic of aircraft accidents and serious incidents), système de signalement des accidents majeurs (major accidents reporting system), taux d'accidentabilité (rate of accidents), gestion d'accidents d'irradiation (management of radiation accidents). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Unfälle (casualties, mishaps). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κατάρτιση προτύπων για ατυχήματα της καρδιάς (modelling of core accidents), έντυπο Ε123 (certificate of entitlement to benefits in kind under insurance against accidents at work and occupational diseases, E123 form), σύστημα αναφοράς μειζόνων ατυχημάτων (major accidents reporting system), σειρά ατυχημάτων (chapter of accidents), βεβαίωση δικαιώματος για παροχές σε είδος της ασφάλισης κατά των εργατικών ατυχημάτων και των επαγγελματικών ασθενειών (certificate of entitlement to benefits in kind under insurance against accidents at work and occupational diseases), μητρώο ατυχημάτων (register of accidents), φαινομενολογία σοβαρών ατυχημάτων (phenomenology of severe accidents), Ταμείο εργατικών ατυχημάτων (Accidents at Work Fund), Συμβουλευτική επιτροπή σχετικά με το σχέδιο επίδειξης για τη δημιουργία κοινοτικού συστήματος πληροφόρησης για τα ατυχήματα στα οποία εν (Advisory Committee on the Demonstration Project with a view to introducing a Community System of Information on Accidents involving Consumer Products), Συμβουλευτική Eπιτροπή σχετικά με ένα σχέδιο επίδειξης για τη δημιουργία κοινοτικού συστήματος πληροφόρησης για τα ατυχήματα στα οποία εν (Advisory Committee on the Demonstration Project with a view to Introducing a Community System of Information on Accidents involving Consumer Products), αποζημίωση για εργατικά ατυχήματα (compensation for accidents when on duty or occupational diseases), αποζημίωση για επαγγελματικές ασθένειες (compensation for accidents when on duty or occupational diseases), τράπεζα κοινοτικών δεδομένων για τα τροχαία ατυχήματα (CARE, Community database on road accidents), διαχείριση ατυχημάτων ακτινοβολίας (management of radiation accidents), CARE (CARE, Community database on road accidents). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | baleset-elhárítás (prevention of accidents). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | incidenti (casualties, mischances). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 海難審判庁 (Marine Accidents Inquiry Agency), 公務災害 (accidents in line of duty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かいな"し"ぱ"ちょう (Marine Accidents Inquiry Agency), "うむさいがい (accidents in line of duty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | accidentsay desastres. (various references) acidentes, desastres. (various references) serie de nenorociri neprevãzute (chapter of accidents). (various references) случайность естественного характера (natural accidents), техника безопасности (prevention of accidents, safety measures, security engineering), непредвиденное стечение обстоятельств (chapter of accidents). (various references) accidentes. (various references) olycksfall (accident, casualty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fortuito. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"ACCIDENTS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acccident, accdient, accedent, accidens, accidenti, accidenty, accidet, accidient, accidnet, aciden, acsident, occidents. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ACCIDENTS" (pronounced a"ksudunts) |
| 8 | -k s u d u n t s | antioxidants, oxidants. |
| 7 | -s u d u n t s | dissidents, incidents, precedents. |
| 6 | -u d u n t s | nonresidents, residents. |
| 5 | -d u n t s | antecedents, attendants, correspondents, decedents, defendants, dependents, descendants, descendents, independents, respondents, rodents, students, superintendents. |
| 4 | -u n t s | abandonments, abatements, abortifacients, accelerants, accompaniments, accomplishments, accountants, accouterments, achievements, adherents, adjustments, adolescents, advancements, advertisements, agents, agreements, ailments, alignments, allotments, amendments, amusements, ancients, announcements, antidepressants, apartments, applicants, appointments, arguments, armaments, arraignments, arrangements, aspirants, assailants, assessments, assignments, assistants, astringents, attachments, basements, battlements, belligerents, blandishments, bombardments, celebrants, claimants, clients, coefficients, combatants, commandments, commitments, compartments, complainants, complements, components, condiments, consonants, constants, constituents, consultants, contaminants, contestants, continents, contingents, coolants, copayments, cormorants, covenants, Crosscurrents, currents, curtailments, decongestants, deferments, defoliants, delinquents, deodorants, departments, deployments, depressants, derailments, detergents, determinants, deterrents, developments, deviants, disagreements, disappointments, disbursements, disinfectants, dispersants, displacements, divestments, docents, documents, elements, elephants, embarrassments, emigrants, emplacements, employments, enactments, encampments, encroachments, endorsements, endowments, enforcements, engagements, enhancements, enjoyments, enlargements, enrollments, entanglements, entertainments, enticements, entitlements, entrants, environments, equipments, equivalents, escarpments, establishments, experiments, exponents, figments, filaments, fluorescents, formants, fragments, frequents, garments, giants, governments, grandparents, hydrants, immigrants, impairments, impeachments, impediments, implements, impoundments, improvements, incitements, incompetents, increments, incumbents, indictments, indigents, inducements, infants, informants, infringements, ingredients, inhabitants, inhalants, innocents, inpatients, installments, instruments, insurgents, investments, involvements, irritants, judgements, judgments, lieutenants, ligaments, litigants, lubricants, managements, measurements, merchants, migrants, militants, miscreants, misjudgments, misstatements, moments, monuments, movements, mutants, noncombatants, nutrients, occupants, opponents, ornaments, overpayments, overstatements, pageants, parents, parliaments, participants, patents, patients, pavements, payments, peasants, pennants, pheasants, pigments, placements, pollutants, postponements, predicaments, prepayments, presents, procurements, pronouncements, propellants, proponents, protestants, punishments, readjustments, reagents, realignments, reassignments, recipients, redeployments, reenactments, refinements, refreshments, refrigerants, Regents, regiments, registrants, reimbursements, reinforcements, remnants, repayments, replacements, requirements, resentments, restatements, retirements, retrenchments, rudiments, sacraments, savants, sealants, sediments, segments, sentiments, sergeants, serpents, servants, settlements, shipments, solvents, statements, stimulants, subcontinents, succulents, supergiants, supplements, talents, temperaments, tenants, tenements, torrents, tournaments, transients, treatments, tyrants, undercurrents, undergarments, underpayments, vagrants, variants, warrants. |
| 3 | -n t s | accents, accounts, affronts, amounts, ants, appoints, aunts, ballpoints, blueprints, blunts, brents, cents, chants, checkpoints, circumvents, comments, complaints, compliments, confidants, confronts, consents, constraints, contents, counts, croissants, dachshunds, debutantes, dents, descents, disappoints, discontents, discounts, dissents, eggplants, events, ferments, fingerprints, flaunts, flints, fonts, footprints, forints, fronts, grants, grunts, haunts, hints, hunts, implants, imprints, intents, invents, jaunts, joints, laments, malcontents, mints, misrepresents, mounts, paints, pants, percents, pinpoints, pints, plants, points, portents, presidents, prevents, prints, punts, quints, recounts, rents, represents, reprints, resents, restaurants, restraints, saints, scents, splints, sprints, standpoints, stints, storefronts, stunts, sweatpants, taints, taunts, tents, tints, torments, transplants, underpants, vents, viewpoints, wants, waterfronts. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: desiccant. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-i-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: accident, distance. | |
-2 letters: accents, acetins, ascetic, candies, cineast, decants, descant, destain, detains, discant, incased, instead, sainted, scandic, scanted, stained. | |
-3 letters: accent, acetic, acetin, actins, antics, ascend, ascent, cadent, cadets, canids, canted, cantic, caseic, casein, centai, centas, dances, decant, detain, dicast, edicts, enacts, enatic, incase, incest, insect, nastic, nicads, nicest, sained, scenic, secant, siccan. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-d-e-i-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: desiccants. | |
+2 letters: accidentals, candlestick, confiscated, consociated, desiccating, desiccation, inductances. | |
+3 letters: candlesticks, coeducations, desiccations, incandescent, insecticidal, postaccident. | |
+4 letters: antiacademics, antidesiccant, circumstanced, dialecticians, incandescents. | |
+5 letters: accidentalness, accreditations, antidesiccants, conceptualised, deconsecrating, deconsecration, decortications, discontinuance, discountenance, incandescently, insecticidally, occidentalizes. | |
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