account

Signification

Noun

1. 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.
2. A bank account.
3. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
4. A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
5. A record of events; a relation or narrative.
6. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
7. Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
8. Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
9. A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
10. Profit; advantage.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To provide explanation.
2. To provide explanation.
3. To provide explanation.
4. To provide explanation.
5. To provide explanation.
6. To provide explanation.
7. To provide explanation.
8. To provide explanation.
9. To provide explanation.
10. To count.
11. (obsolete) To count.
12. (obsolete) To count.

Coupé comme

ac‧count

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ə.ˈkaʊnt/

Étymologie

From Middle English acounte, from Anglo-Norman acunte (“account”), from Old French aconte, from aconter (“to reckon”), from Latin computō (“to sum up”).

Phrases

Other people , according to this account , began to order the same as Sandwich !

D'autres personnes, selon ce compte, ont commencé à commander la même chose que Sandwich!

This may account for the coat of arms being thought to be upside down .

Cela peut expliquer que les armoiries sont considérées comme à l'envers.