accident

Etymology
First attested in the late 14th century. From, from , from , present active participle of ; from +. See,. In the sense “unintended pregnancy”, first attested in 1932.

Noun

 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
 * 3)  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.
 * 4) Any chance event.
 * 5)   Chance; random chance.
 * 6) * c.1861-1863,, in 1888, Letters and memorials, Volume 1,
 * Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident, / It is the very place God meant for thee;
 * 1)  Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive.
 * See also:
 * 1) * 14thC,, The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale in ,
 * These cookes how they stamp, and strain, and grind, / And turne substance into accident, / To fulfill all thy likerous talent!
 * 1)  A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case.
 * 2) * a 1799, John Parkhurst, A Hebrew and English lexicon without points, page 25
 * An adjective, so called because adjectitious, or added to a substantive, denotes some quality or accident of the substantive to which it is joined
 * 1)  An instance of incontinence.
 * 2) Urine or feces excreted due to incontinence.
 * 3)   An unintended pregnancy.
 * 4)   A person born from an unintended pregnancy.
 * 5)  An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.
 * 6)  A sudden discontinuity of ground such as fault of great thickness, bed or lentil of unstable ground.
 * 7)  A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
 * 1) * 14thC,, The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale in ,
 * These cookes how they stamp, and strain, and grind, / And turne substance into accident, / To fulfill all thy likerous talent!
 * 1)  A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case.
 * 2) * a 1799, John Parkhurst, A Hebrew and English lexicon without points, page 25
 * An adjective, so called because adjectitious, or added to a substantive, denotes some quality or accident of the substantive to which it is joined
 * 1)  An instance of incontinence.
 * 2) Urine or feces excreted due to incontinence.
 * 3)   An unintended pregnancy.
 * 4)   A person born from an unintended pregnancy.
 * 5)  An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.
 * 6)  A sudden discontinuity of ground such as fault of great thickness, bed or lentil of unstable ground.
 * 7)  A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
 * 1) Urine or feces excreted due to incontinence.
 * 2)   An unintended pregnancy.
 * 3)   A person born from an unintended pregnancy.
 * 4)  An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.
 * 5)  A sudden discontinuity of ground such as fault of great thickness, bed or lentil of unstable ground.
 * 6)  A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
 * 1)  A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.

Usage notes
Risk management and risk mitigation experts (such as actuaries, systems engineers, and others) generally do not approve of calling motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) "accidents", because they advisedly reserve that term for things not directly caused by human recklessness or negligence. Because it is predictably obvious (and directly causal) that distracted driving (e.g., texting, IMing/DMing, videogaming, or intoxication while driving) produces MVCs, those MVCs are not "accidents". Nonetheless, among the general public, MVCs are quite often called "accidents" rather than "crashes" or "collisions", not only by idiomatic inertia but also because connotatively, it steers clear of broaching the topic of blame assignment, whereas a phrase like "he crashed" connotes blame.

Synonyms

 * ,, , ; See also Thesaurus:accident
 * , ; see also Thesaurus:luck
 * , ; see also Thesaurus:luck

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: አደጋ
 * Arabic:, حَادِثَة
 * Egyptian Arabic: حَادْثَة
 * Hijazi Arabic: حَادِث
 * South Levantine Arabic: حَادِث
 * Armenian: դժբախտ պատահար
 * Azerbaijani:, avariya, bədbəxt hadisə
 * Basque:, ezbehar
 * Belarusian: вы́падак, ава́рыя, катастро́фа, няшча́сны вы́падак
 * Bengali: দূর্ঘটনা
 * Berber:
 * Kabyle: asehwu
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Burmese: မတော်တဆမှု
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, , ulykkestilfælde,  , tilfældighed
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: vanlukka, óhapp
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: უბედური შემთხვევა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: συμφορά, πταῖσμα
 * Greenlandic: ajunaarneq
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: vahinko, sormus
 * Irish: timpiste
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: ,
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Lao: ອຸປະຕິເຫດ
 * Latin: calamitas
 * Latvian: gadījums
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low German:
 * German Low German:
 * Macedonian: несреќа, незгода
 * Malay: kemalangan
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: aituā, hauata
 * Marathi:
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, , ulykkestilfelle
 * Nynorsk: ulukke, ulykke, uhell
 * Oromo: balaa
 * Ottoman Turkish: قضا
 * Pashto: ,
 * Persian:, ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: accident
 * Russian:, technical, , ч. п.,  ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: tubaist, tuiteamas
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: нѐсрећа, нѐзгода
 * Roman: nèsreća,
 * Sinhalese: අනතුර
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:, disgrasya,
 * Tajik:, , , , сониҳа
 * Tatar:
 * Thai:
 * Tigrinya: ሓደጋ, ሃንደበት
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: ,
 * Ukrainian: ви́падок,, , , неща́сний ви́падок
 * Urdu:, ناگہانی
 * Uyghur: ئاۋارىيە, ھادىسە
 * Uzbek:, , , ,
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Walloon: ,
 * Yiddish: אַקצידענט
 * Zazaki: ağm
 * Zulu:


 * Arabic: مُصَادَفَة, ,
 * Belarusian: вы́падак
 * Danish: tilfældighed,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Latin: temeritās
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: Tofall
 * Indonesian:
 * Malayalam:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Ukrainian: ви́падок


 * Arabic: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Indonesia:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latin: temeritās
 * Malayalam:
 * Russian:


 * American Sign Language:
 * 3@SideChesthigh-FingerAcross-1@CenterChesthigh-FingerUp S@Finger-TipFinger-1@CenterChesthigh-FingerUp
 * 3@SideChesthigh-FingerAcross-S@CenterChesthigh-TipAcross S@Tip-TipAcross-S@CenterChesthigh-TipAcross
 * 3@SideChesthigh-FingerAcross-3@SideChesthigh-FingerAcross S@Tip-TipAcross-S@CenterChesthigh-TipAcross
 * Arabic:
 * Hijazi Arabic: حَادِث
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: ава́рыя, сутыкне́нне, даро́жна-тра́нспартнае здарэ́нне , ДТЗ
 * Bislama: aksidong, bang
 * Bulgarian:, , пътнотра́нспортно произше́ствие
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: жол-көлік оқиғасы
 * Korean:
 * Lao: ອຸບັດເຫດ
 * Lithuanian: autoįvykis,
 * Malay: kemalangan
 * Malayalam:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, , havari
 * Nynorsk: ulukke, ulykke, uhell, havari
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,  ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: у̀дес
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: รถชน,, อุบัติเหตุรถชน
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:, зі́ткнення , доро́жньо-тра́нспортна приго́да , ДТП
 * Walloon:
 * Yiddish: אַוואַריע


 * Czech: případek, akcident
 * Danish: egenskab
 * Finnish: ,
 * Russian: ,


 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Catalan:
 * Esperanto: akcidenco
 * Finnish: ilmenemismuoto


 * Catalan:


 * Finnish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, technical
 * Ukrainian: неща́сний ви́падок,


 * Arabic:
 * Finnish: ilmenemismuoto,
 * Persian:


 * Esperanto:
 * Georgian:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:, (1)
 * Maltese:
 * Sinhalese:

Adjective

 * 1)  Designating any form of transportation involved in an accident.

Etymology
, present active participle of.

Noun

 * 1)  a chance occurrence
 * 2)  accidental
 * 3)  feature
 * 1)  feature
 * 1)  feature
 * 1)  feature

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  accidental property

Etymology
.

Usage notes

 * Not to be confused with.

Etymology 1
Form of the verb.

Etymology 2
Form of the verb.

Noun

 * 1)  unexpected outcome

Noun

 * 1)  chance occurrence
 * 2) symptom (medical)

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) An ; a coincidental occurrence or event.