(n.) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.
(n.) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank.
(n.) A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts.
(n.) A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle.
(n.) A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon.
(n.) An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
(n.) Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit.
(v. t.) To reckon; to compute; to count.
(v. t.) To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign; -- with to.
(v. t.) To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem.
(v. t.) To recount; to relate.
(v. i.) To render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.
(v. i.) To render an account; to answer in judgment; -- with for; as, we must account for the use of our opportunities.
(v. i.) To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; -- with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty.
Example Sentences:
(1) These factors might account for the lower systemic bioavailability of these compounds.
(2) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
(3) However, some contactless transactions are processed offline so may not appear on a customer’s account until after the block has been applied.” It says payments that had been made offline on the day of cancellation may be applied to accounts and would be refunded when the customer identified them; payments made on days after the cancellation will not be taken from an account.
(4) Even with hepatic lipase, phospholipid hydrolysis could not deplete VLDL and IDL of sufficient phospholipid molecules to account for the loss of surface phospholipid that accompanies triacylglycerol hydrolysis and decreasing core volume as LDL is formed (or for conversion of HDL2 to HDL3).
(5) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
(6) Thus, it appears that neuronal loss may account for up to roughly half of the striatal D2 receptor loss during aging.
(7) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.
(8) That is why you will be held relentlessly to account for those choices; why what you said in February invites forensic scrutiny.
(9) This decrease cannot be accounted for by increased turnover of the mRNA in the presence of the drug.
(10) Another important factor, however, seems to be that patients, their families, doctors and employers estimate capacity of performance on account of the specific illness, thus calling for intensified efforts toward rehabilitation.
(11) The issue has been raised by an accountant investigating the tax affairs of the duchy – an agricultural, commercial and residential landowner.
(12) ACh released from the vesicular fraction was about 100-fold more than could be accounted for by miniature end-plate potentials; possible causes of this overestimate are discussed.
(13) And perhaps it’s this longevity that accounts for her popularity: a single tweet from Williams (who has 750,000 followers) about the series will prompt a Game Of Thrones news story.
(14) This study examines the extent to which changes in smoking can account for the decrease in CHD mortality for men and women aged 35-64 years.
(15) Analysis of 156 records relating to patients at the age of 15 to 85 years with extended purulent peritonitis of the surgical and gynecological genesis (the toxic phase, VI category ASA) showed that combination of programmed sanitation laparotomy and intensive antibacterial therapy performed as short-term courses before, during and after the operation with an account of the information on the nature of the microbial associations and antibioticograms was an efficient procedure in treatment of severe peritonitis.
(16) The multiple logistic model, the most commonly used model for the analysis of coronary heart disease studies, does not consider survival time in assessment of the dependent covariates and does not account for the censoring which usually occurs in such studies.
(17) Decreased synthesis rather than increased utilization accounted for the nucleoside effect.
(18) The M&S Current Account, which has no monthly fee, is available from 15 May and is offering people the chance to bank and shop under one roof.
(19) Gradual evolutionary change by natural selection operates so slowly within established species that it cannot account for the major features of evolution.
(20) The term acute allergic colitis seems to be more suitable taking into account the distribution, the cause and the development of this disease.
Unaccountable
Definition:
(a.) Not accountable or responsible; free from control.
(a.) Not to be accounted for; inexplicable; not consonant with reason or rule; strange; mysterious.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brian Donald said 5,000 children had disappeared in Italy alone, while another 1,000 were unaccounted for in Sweden .
(2) The only difference in the coding region sequence was confined to the joining region where three nucleotides, TTG, unaccountable by either V alpha or J alpha sequence, were present.
(3) If implemented, the ESM will reverse the greatest 19th-century political achievement in Europe: the transfer of the power to determine taxation and expenditure from unaccountable monarchical governments to formally accountable parliaments.
(4) think of the spines of the children, running handclap-heavy happy ads about unaccountable youth coaching standards and the “Heads Up” tackling program , a technique that works only in an NFL ad’s Smurf-like fantasyland divorced from the reality of tackling.
(5) Because there was never any obligation to pay any interest on these "loans", the total unaccounted sum is $910m.
(6) Critics complain that granting the multimillion-pound contract to a private consortium while freeing it of liability for a nuclear incident is such a poor deal for the taxpayer that it will render its new management unaccountable.
(7) Since this proportion was nearly as great as that found in the absence of directed air-flow, it seems probable that these strains were derived either from undetected sources within the section or were dispersed from the clothes of persons who entered it.Nearly one-third of the nasal acquisitions in the ward could not be related to known nasal carriers, but about one-half of these (16%) were probably ;spurious' and half of the remainder (8%) could be related to strains recovered from patients' lesions or drawsheets, leaving no more than 8% unaccounted for.
(8) [...] This money should be focused on delivering frontline services rather than lining the pockets of unaccountable charity executives."
(9) 5.05pm BST 5 mins: Even though the referee unaccountably gave England a goal-kick after that Campbell shot, Costa Rica have enjoyed most of the possession so far.
(10) Our results suggest that in humans both of these compounds may be involved in part of "unaccountable" early abortions and malformations claimed to be due to the toxicity of heavy metals.
(11) Even if TTIP is defeated, we still live in a world in which major corporations often have greater power than nation states: only organised movements that cross borders can have any hope of challenging this unaccountable dominance.
(12) Two Spanish tourists – a man and his pregnant wife – previously unaccounted for, were found after spending almost 24 hours hiding in the museum.
(13) The others remain unaccounted for after they were seized on Sunday.
(14) It has become Russia’s most powerful and unaccountable institution.
(15) The journalist Dele Giwa was not blown up so that, in 2014, the billions of dollars earmarked to fight a war on terror against a group much smaller and with fewer resources than the Nigerian army would unaccountably not suffice, and an additional $1bn would be needed to do the job.
(16) We had four groups still unaccounted for yesterday and it may be their priority is simply to get away from where they are.
(17) The association also appears to be strongest for local disease and weakest for the most invasive disease, which implies that the etiology for the more invasive endometrial cancers is largely unaccounted for by estrogen use.
(18) Successive governments have multiplied the number of acts that can be deemed criminal or misdemeanours, constructing a regime of unaccountable discretionary decisions that blight people’s lives.
(19) They are all but unaccounted for by the official figures because councils rarely designate them as statutorily homeless, even if they are indeed homeless.
(20) Nine people are now confirmed dead, and a further 19 remain unaccounted for as a slow-motion environmental catastrophe continues to unfold following the collapse of two mining dams in Brazil’s mineral-rich state of Minas Gerais.