accelerator
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3.0
- noun
- /əˈkɛl.ə.reɪ.tər/
:
acelerador
- All thirty lanes were clear, and he put his foot down on the accelerator.
- accelerator pedal
- foot on the accelerator
- brake and accelerator
If you floor the accelerator, you're gone very fast.
- If you floor the accelerator, you're gone very fast.
- Most people's first impulse is to hit the gas, the accelerator, we want to push.
- If you think about a car, you have a an accelerator and a brake.
- Giving it a strong hit on the accelerator pedal at all.
- It's either foot on the accelerator smashed to the floorboard, or the foot on the brakes with an abrupt halt, slammed on the brakes, slammed.
Examples
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McArthur stamped on the accelerator and jolted his big green car over a curb.
Fiction book (1992) -
Shafer stepped on the accelerator again and headed forward against the oncoming traffic.
Fiction book (1999) -
You need to take your foot off the accelerator -Okay.
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Sometimes you got to take your foot off the accelerator a little bit.
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I managed to get back on to the accelerator.
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Put your foot on the accelerator.
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I stepped down on the accelerator and I closed my eyes.
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If you floor the accelerator, you're gone very fast.
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Hit the accelerator there.
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She pressed down on the accelerator to speed up as she entered the highway.
Synonyms
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2.5
The pedal that makes a car go faster when you press it
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1.8
A lever you press with your foot to control a machine like a car or bike
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6.1
A lever or pedal that controls an engine's power and speed
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2.5
A foot pedal in a car that controls the car's speed
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3.0
A foot pedal in a car that controls the engine speed
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9.1
A short informal word for something that makes things go faster
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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5.5
A machine that makes tiny charged particles move faster for science or medicine
- Specialized
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6.8
A machine that makes tiny particles inside atoms move very fast for experiments or medical treatment
- Specialized
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7.0
A machine that makes tiny charged particles move faster in a straight line
- Specialized
1
6.8
A machine that makes protons move very fast to hit other particles
- Specialized
A machine that speeds up ions so they leave a hot gas called plasma after swapping electrons
- Specialized
A machine that makes very high voltage to push small charged particles through a tube
- Specialized
A device that uses electrical parts to make high voltage and speed charged particles through a tube
- Specialized
A machine that uses microwaves to speed up charged particles in a straight line
- Specialized
A machine that makes a steady beam of electrons go faster using electric fields from changing magnets
- Specialized
A substance that helps blood clot by turning a blood protein into a clotting chemical
Surface Forms
Morphology
accelerator = accelerate (transparent) = accelerate + or
Formed by the verb 'accelerate' + agentive/instrument suffix '-or'; the device meaning is directly 'one that accelerates'.
Etymology
Accelerator comes from the Latin word accelerare, made of ad- 'to' and celer 'swift', so it means 'make faster'. In a car, the accelerator is the pedal you press to make the vehicle go faster.