accident

  • 31accident — The word accident is derived from the Latin verb accidere signifying fall upon, befall, happen, chance. In an etymological sense anything that happens may be said to be an accident and in this sense, the word has been defined as befalling a… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 32accident — The word accident is derived from the Latin verb accidere signifying fall upon, befall, happen, chance. In an etymological sense anything that happens may be said to be an accident and in this sense, the word has been defined as befalling a… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 33accident — [[t]æ̱ksɪdənt[/t]] ♦♦♦ accidents 1) N COUNT An accident happens when a vehicle hits a person, an object, or another vehicle, causing injury or damage. She was involved in a serious car accident last week... The train driver failed to brake in… …

    English dictionary

  • 34accident — An occurrence by chance or not as expected. Haser v Maryland Casualty Co. 78 ND 893, 53 NW2d 508, 33 ALR2d 1018; Anno: 8 ALR2d 409. In lesser scope, an occurrence which could not have been foreseen by the exercise of reasonable prudence, one… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 35ACCIDENT — n. m. Ce qui arrive par hasard. Il se prend d’ordinaire en mal, quand il n’est accompagné d’aucune épithète qui en détermine le sens en bien. La vie humaine est sujette à tant d’accidents. On répond de sa guérison, s’il ne survient point… …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 8eme edition (1935)

  • 36Accident — Filmdaten Deutscher Titel Accident Zwischenfall in Oxford Originaltitel Accident …

    Deutsch Wikipedia

  • 37accident — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin accident , accidens nonessential quality, chance, from present participle of accidere to happen, from ad + cadere to fall more at chance Date: 14th century 1. a. an unforeseen and… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 38accident — n. 1 an event that is without apparent cause, or is unexpected (their early arrival was just an accident). 2 an unfortunate event, esp. one causing physical harm or damage, brought about unintentionally. 3 occurrence of things by chance; the… …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 39accident — /ak si deuhnt/, n. 1. an undesirable or unfortunate happening that occurs unintentionally and usually results in harm, injury, damage, or loss; casualty; mishap: automobile accidents. 2. Law. such a happening resulting in injury that is in no way …

    Universalium

  • 40accident —    1. involuntary urination or defecation    Literally, anything which happens, whence, in common use, anything undesirable:     I ve never punished him, the way our mothers and nurses did, when he has an accident . (M. McCarthy, 1963)    2. an… …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms