Dictionary entry details
• ACCOUNT (noun)
Meaning:
A formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
account; business relationship
Context example:
he asked to see the executive who handled his account
Hypernyms ("account" is a kind of...):
relationship (a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "account"):
brokerage account (a fund that a customer has entrusted to a securities brokerage)
bank account (a fund that a customer has entrusted to a bank and from which they can make withdrawals)
short account (a brokerage account of someone who sells short (sells securities he does not own))
Meaning:
The act of informing by verbal report
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
account; report
Context examples:
he heard reports that they were causing trouble / by all accounts they were a happy couple
Hypernyms ("account" is a kind of...):
informing; making known (a speech act that conveys information)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "account"):
comment; gossip; scuttlebutt (a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people)
narration; recital; yarn (the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events)
anecdote (short account of an incident (especially a biographical one))
debriefing (report of a mission or task)
megillah ((Yiddish) a long boring tediously detailed account)
direct discourse; direct quotation (a report of the exact words used in a discourse (e.g.,)
indirect discourse (a report of a discourse in which deictic terms are modified appropriately (e.g.,)
summarisation; summarization (the act of preparing a summary (or an instance thereof); stating briefly and succinctly)
Meaning:
A record or narrative description of past events
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
chronicle; account; history; story
Context examples:
a history of France / he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president / the story of exposure to lead
Hypernyms ("account" is a kind of...):
record (anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events)
Domain category:
history (the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "account"):
ancient history (a history of the ancient world)
recital (a detailed account or description of something)
biography; life; life history; life story (an account of the series of events making up a person's life)
annals; chronological record (a chronological account of events in successive years)
historical document; historical paper; historical record (writing having historical value (as opposed to fiction or myth etc.))
case history (detailed record of the background of a person or group under study or treatment)
etymology (a history of a word)
Meaning:
A short account of the news
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
news report; write up; report; account; story
Context examples:
the report of his speech / the story was on the 11 o'clock news / the account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious
Hypernyms ("account" is a kind of...):
news (information reported in a newspaper or news magazine)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "account"):
exclusive; scoop (a news report that is reported first by one news organization)
urban legend (a story that appears mysteriously and spreads spontaneously in various forms and is usually false; contains elements of humor or horror and is popularly believed to be true)
communique; despatch; dispatch (an official report (usually sent in haste))
bulletin (a brief report (especially an official statement issued for immediate publication or broadcast))
newsletter; newssheet (report or open letter giving informal or confidential news of interest to a special group)
Meaning:
A statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Synonyms:
account statement; account; accounting
Context example:
they send me an accounting every month
Hypernyms ("account" is a kind of...):
financial statement; statement (a document showing credits and debits)
Meronyms (parts of "account"):
balance (equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "account"):
expense account; travel and entertainment account (an account to which salespersons or executives can charge travel and entertainment expenses)
suspense account (an account used temporarily to carry doubtful receipts and disbursements or discrepancies pending their analysis and permanent classification)
profit and loss; profit and loss account (an account compiled at the end of an accounting period to show gross and net profit or loss)
capital account ((economics) that part of the balance of payments recording a nation's outflow and inflow of financial securities)
capital account ((finance) an account of the net value of a business at a specified date)
Meaning:
A statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
explanation; account
Context examples:
the explanation was very simple / I expected a brief account
Hypernyms ("account" is a kind of...):
statement (a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc)
Meronyms (parts of "account"):
explanans ((logic) statements that explain the explicandum; the explanatory premises)
explanandum; explicandum ((logic) a statement of something (a fact or thing or expression) to be explained)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "account"):
walk-through (a thorough explanation (usually accompanied by a demonstration) of each step in a procedure or process)
interpretation (an explanation that results from interpreting something)
definition (a concise explanation of the meaning of a word or phrase or symbol)
derivation; deriving; etymologizing ((historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase)
gloss; rubric (an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text)
explication (a detailed explanation of the meaning of something)
exposition (an account that sets forth the meaning or intent of a writing or discourse)
justification (a statement in explanation of some action or belief)
reason (an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon)
accounting (a convincing explanation that reveals basic causes)
simplification (a explanation that omits superfluous details and reduces complexity)
Meaning:
An itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
invoice; bill; account
Context examples:
he paid his bill and left / send me an account of what I owe
Hypernyms ("account" is a kind of...):
financial statement; statement (a document showing credits and debits)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "account"):
check; chit; tab (the bill in a restaurant)
tax bill (money owed for taxes)
reckoning; tally (a bill for an amount due)
phone bill; telephone bill (statement of charges for telephone service)
doctor's bill; medical bill (statement of charges for medical services)
hotel bill (statement of charges for staying in a hotel)
electric bill (a bill for money owed for electricity used)
Meaning:
Grounds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting goals
Synonyms:
score; account
Context examples:
don't do it on my account / the paper was rejected on account of its length / he tried to blame the victim but his success on that score was doubtful
Hypernyms ("account" is a kind of...):
ground; reason (a rational motive for a belief or action)
Meaning:
Importance or value
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Context examples:
a person of considerable account / he predicted that although it is of small account now it will rapidly increase in importance
Hypernyms ("account" is a kind of...):
importance (the quality of being important and worthy of note)
Meaning:
The quality of taking advantage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Context example:
she turned her writing skills to good account
Hypernyms ("account" is a kind of...):
gain; profit (the advantageous quality of being beneficial)
• ACCOUNT (verb)
Meaning:
Be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Context example:
Passing grades account for half of the grades given in this exam
Hypernyms (to "account" is one way to...):
be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Keep an account of
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
account; calculate
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "account"):
compound (calculate principal and interest)
debit (enter as debit)
overbalance (cause to be off balance)
balance (compute credits and debits of an account)
credit (accounting: enter as credit)
bill; charge (demand payment)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
Meaning:
To give an account or representation of in words
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
report; describe; account
Context example:
Discreet Italian police described it in a manner typically continental
Hypernyms (to "account" is one way to...):
inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s PP
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Meaning:
Furnish a justifying analysis or explanation
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
answer for; account
Context example:
I can't account for the missing money
Hypernyms (to "account" is one way to...):
declare (state emphatically and authoritatively)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
