Unusual appearance or effect.
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;
Noun
anything that happens by chance without an apparent cause
Noun
a mishap; especially one causing injury or death
n.
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.
n.
A property attached to a word, but not essential to it,
as gender, number, case.
n.
A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a
coat of arms.
n.
A property or quality of a thing which is not essential
to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute.
n.
A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance,
as sweetness, softness.
n.
Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental
or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident.
n.
Unusual appearance or effect.
Accident
Of moving accidents by flood and field.
Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident: It is the very place God meant for thee.2.
This accident, as I call it, of Athens being situated some miles from the sea.6.
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;
Usage Examples
I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2, and they have no one to hold accountable. And unfortunately, I don't have that. I have parents who I care about what they think.
I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.
In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year.
I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you remember being in the accident but you don't remember any of the details.
Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.
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Other Usage ExamplesIn fact when you combine stem cell technology with the technology known as tissue engineering you can actually grow up entire organs, so as you suggest that sometime in the future you get in an auto accident and lose your kidney, we'd simply take a few skin cells and grow you up a new kidney. In fact this has already been done.
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
A lot happens by accident in poetry.
A relationship is sent by God and accident.
If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
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