Accession vs. Accessory — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Accession and Accessory
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Accession
The attainment of a dignity or rank
The queen's accession to the throne.
Accessory
A subordinate or supplementary item; an adjunct.
Accession
Something that has been acquired or added; an acquisition.
Accessory
Something nonessential but desirable that contributes to an effect or result.
Accession
An increase by means of something added.
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Accessory
(Law) One who knowingly assists a lawbreaker in the commission of a crime but does not actually participate in that crime.
Accession
The addition to or increase in value of property by means of improvements or natural growth.
Accessory
Having a secondary, supplementary, or subordinate function.
Accession
The right of a proprietor to ownership of such addition or increase.
Accessory
(Law) Involving the knowing assistance of a lawbreaker in the commission of a crime without actual participation in the crime.
Accession
Agreement or assent.
Accessory
Having a secondary, supplementary or subordinate function by accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; being additional; contributing or being contributory.
Accessory garments
Surprise parties succeed with the help of accessory neighbors or colleagues.
Accession
Access; admittance.
Accessory
(legal) Assisting a crime without actually participating in committing the crime itself; being connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal.
Her actions were clearly accessory because they helped him commit and probably also conceal the crime.
Accession
A sudden outburst.
Accessory
Present in a minor amount, and not essential.
Accessory mineral
Accession
To record in the order of acquisition
A curator accessioning newly acquired paintings.
Accessory
Something that belongs to part of another main thing; something additional and subordinate, an attachment.
The accessories of a mobile phone
Accession
A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined.
A king's accession to a confederacy
Accessory
(fashion) An article that completes one's basic outfit, such as a scarf or gloves.
Accession
Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
Accessory
(legal) A person who is not present at a crime, but contributes to it as an assistant or instigator.
She was an accessory to the murder because she helped him commit and probably also conceal the crime.
Accession
(legal) A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species).
Accessory
(art) Something in a work of art without being indispensably necessary, for example solely ornamental parts.
Accession
(legal) The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.
Accessory
Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music.
Accession
The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity.
Her accession to the throne
Accessory
That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate.
Accession
(medicine) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.
Accessory
Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts.
Accession
Agreement.
Accessory
Clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing
Accession
Access; admittance.
Accessory
A supplementary component that improves capability
Accession
A group of plants of the same species collected at a single location, often held in genebanks.
Accessory
Someone who helps another person commit a crime
Accession
(Scotland) Complicity, concurrence or assent in some action.
Accessory
Relating to something that is added but is not essential;
An ancillary pump
An adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism
The mind and emotions are auxilliary to each other
Accession
(transitive) To make a record of (additions to a collection).
Accession
A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy.
Accession
Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without; as, an accession of wealth or territory.
The only accession which the Roman empire received was the province of Britain.
Accession
A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species). Thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf.
Accession
The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity; as, the accession of the house of Stuart; - applied especially to the epoch of a new dynasty.
Accession
The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.
Accession
A process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group);
The art collectin grew through accession
Accession
(civil law) the right to all of that which your property produces whether by growth or improvement
Accession
Something added to what you already have;
The librarian shelved the new accessions
He was a new addition to the staff
Accession
Agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly);
Accession to such demands would set a dangerous precedent
Assenting to the Congressional determination
Accession
The right to enter
Accession
The act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne);
Elizabeth's accession in 1558
Accession
Make a record of additions to a collection, such as a library
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