1.noun
An unfortunate incident that happens unexpectedly and unintentionally, typically resulting in damage or injury.
- mass noun 'if you are unable to work owing to accident or sickness'
- 'I have heard of injuries from similar accidents, but none as severe as this.'
- 'However the damages and injuries from the accidents so far this year surpassed those of last year.'
- 'Your liability coverage will protect you if you cause an accident that results in damage or injuries, up to the limits of your policy.'
- 'In the most favourable situation, there is only material damage, but often an accident causes physical injuries or even death.'
- 'Except Lucio just had a bone removed from his hip and put into his wrist, to help him recover from a motorcycle accident injury, so it's down to me and Dave to cook.'
- 'Casualties who suffered less serious injuries in accidents also fell from 492 to 306 in Hampshire and from 96 to 80 in Southampton.'
- 'Co-ordinator of the scheme, Inspector Mick Melia, believes it has played a big role in cutting down accidents, injuries and fatalities.'
- 'Over a three-year period there has to have been four accidents involving deaths and serious injuries and eight accidents where victims have needed medical treatment.'
- 'Each year, more than 37,000 women die from accidents.'
- 'Air accident investigators are probing the cause of the incident.'
- 'A campaign has been launched to reduce the speed limit on a road following an accident where a car landed on its roof in a field.'
- 'Each year more than 200 people are rescued from vehicles involved in road accidents in North Yorkshire, a greater number than those rescued from fires.'
- 'Both Salford and Manchester city councils say there are currently unaware of any pending claims resulting from road accidents involving cars on tram lines.'
- 'These are some of the kind of vehicles contributing to the accidents on the roads.'
- 'Currently the only call-outs that Grassington does not cover are road traffic accidents and aircraft crashes because it does not have the specialist cutting equipment required.'
- 'He suffered no injuries in the accident, and his lorry was left with only minor damage.'
- 'There has been a 20% rise in the numbers of people killed in road accidents involving police cars.'
- 'In 1983, this 25-year-old woman was involved in a car accident on a Missouri road that left her in a vegetative state.'
- 'In the last year I've witnessed four road accidents where only one vehicle was involved.'
- 'But in 1971 doctors had thought she would not live after being critically injured in a car accident in Thornton Road.'
- 'he had a little accident, but I washed his shorts out'
An event that happens by chance or that is without apparent or deliberate cause.
- 'it is no accident that Manchester has produced more than its fair share of professional comics'
- 'He got hold of the property by the merest accident, and as soon as he did he began his work by attacking three unfortunate orphans on the estate.'
- 'As soon as you examine the alternative you see what good fortune this accident of human demographics has bestowed on us.'
- 'There are no accidents, only nature exercising her supremacy.'
- 'It's no accident that continental systems have more money and more resources: patients choose to spend their money on health because they can see that it is put to good to use.'
- 'Perhaps it is no accident that this event was held in a teaching institution.'
- 'Perhaps it was no accident that the two events coincided, since the association between oysters and sex has been so hackneyed as to become an embarrassing cliché.'
- 'Yet the war did not really result from bad luck or accident; beneath a contingent process lay profound causes.'
- 'Systematicity may exist in connectionist architectures, but where it exists, it is no more than a lucky accident.'
- 'Hegel explicitly denies - and it would in any case be quite out of keeping with his whole line of thought - that the direction of history is some kind of fortunate accident.'
- 'Was the wrong button on somebody's computer, which brought events to light, an accident or deliberate?'
- 'members belong to the House of Lords through hereditary right or accident of birth'
- 'A child's accident of birth should not preclude a broad, critical, tolerant education.'
- 'All to make sure that the children get the opportunities they were denied by mere accident of birth.'
- 'Although Colin Byrne was hooked on golf from an early age his transformation into one of the world's leading caddies was more accident than destiny.'
- 'Of course nepotism is a wonderful thing, and James is to be congratulated for making the most of this happy accident of birth.'
- 'Success is not a matter of chance, or an accident of birth.'
- 'By mere accident of birth I happen to be British.'
- 'An accident of birth made me native to New York City where I grew but didn't flourish.'
- 'Life formed through a fantastic combination of random chances and evolutionary accidents.'
- 'By accident of birth, most, but not all American leaders, were born in the United States.'
- 'By accident of history and geography, the balance of seats in Parliament never accurately reflects the balance of votes cast.'
(in Aristotelian thought) a property of a thing which is not essential to its nature.
- 'It is only when we call it ‘black’ that we introduce a new entity into the structure, an accident.'
- 'The new element is existence, which Avicenna regarded as an accident, a property of things.'
- 'Sounds do have certain mathematically expressible accidents, but the science of proportions does not establish the substance or nature of sounds.'
((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.|--|)
noun
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 the fault of the injured person for which compensation or indemnity is legally sought.
3.
any event that happens unexpectedly, without a deliberate plan or cause.
4.
chance; fortune; luck: I was there by accident.
5.
a fortuitous circumstance, quality, or characteristic: an accident of birth.
6.
Philosophy. any entity or event contingent upon the existence of something else.
7.
Geology. a surface irregularity, usually on a small scale, the reason for which is not apparent.