account
verb
- estimate; consider
- deal with, explain, give/tell report or explanation
noun
- record of value in bookkeeping
- representation of a user of a computer system
- story from one person's perspective
- means to deal with something
- deal with, explain, give/tell report or explanation
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /əˈkaʊnt/
noun
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”).
- 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.
“The firm failed to file its accounts on time.”
- A bank account.
“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.”
- A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
“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.”
- A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
“Don't trouble yourself on my account.”
“on no account”
- A record of events; a relation or narrative.
“An account of a battle.”
“A laudible account of the city of London.”
- An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
“To stand high in your account”
- Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
“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; […]”
- Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
“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.”
- A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
“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.”
- Profit; advantage.
“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.”
verb
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 aconterder. English account From Old French acounter, accomptere et al., from a- + conter (“to count”)). Compare count.
- To provide explanation.
- To provide explanation.
- To provide explanation.
“The Pagan Hercules, why was he accounted a hero?”
- To provide explanation.
“Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.”
- To provide explanation.
“An officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.”
- To provide explanation.
“We must account for the use of our opportunities.”
- To provide explanation.
“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.”
- To provide explanation.
“After the crash, not all passengers were accounted for.”
- To provide explanation.
“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.”
- To count.
“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.”
- To count.
- To count.
“Long worke it were / Here to account the endlesse progeny / Of all the weeds that bud and blossome there [...].”
- Used in phrasal verbs: account for, account of, account to.