accident
/ˈæk.sə.dənt/ sustantivo A2En español: accidente
- An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences, and (in the strict sense) not directly caused by humans.
- casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
- A collision or crash of a vehicle, aircraft, or other form of transportation that causes damage to the transportation involved; and sometimes injury or death to the transportation's occupants or bystanders in close proximity. (but see Usage notes) · There was a huge accident on I5 involving 15 automobiles.· My insurance went up after the second accident in three months.
- Any chance event.
- Chance; random chance.
- Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive. · Beauty is an accident.· Lexical gaps are called accidental because their existence is by accident; it is not essential.
- A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case.
- An instance of incontinence.
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However, those experienced in navigation saw plainly that if any accident had occurred, it was not to the vessel herself, for she bore down with all the evidence of being skilfully handled, the anchor a-cockbill, the jib-boom guys already eased off, and standing by the side of the pilot, who was steering the Pharaon towards the narrow entrance of the inner port, was a young man, who, with activity and vigilant eye, watched every motion of the ship, and repeated each direction of the pilot.
As soon as the jury had a little recovered from the shock of being upset, and their slates and pencils had been found and handed back to them, they set to work very diligently to write out a history of the accident, all except the Lizard, who seemed too much overcome to do anything but sit with its mouth open, gazing up into the roof of the court.
His first thought was that Oz had by accident caught on fire and was burning up; but when he tried to go nearer, the heat was so intense that it singed his whiskers, and he crept back tremblingly to a spot nearer the door.
His road home lay across a stream into which his Ass, making a false step, fell by accident and rose up again with his load considerably lighter, as the water melted the sack.
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