accumulative

«accumulative» in Mova's school dictionary: Growing bigger by adding one thing after another, so that… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective

meaning for a pupil

Growing bigger by adding one thing after another, so that each part builds on the last. tree →

sense in the lessons

in the lessons, a kind of tale, such as The Old Woman and her Pig, where each new part adds to the ones before

examples

• The song is accumulative: each verse adds one more animal. tree →
• An accumulative tale grows longer each time it is told. tree →
• The pile of items became larger in an accumulative way. tree →

note

each new step adds to the running total, so the count builds up from one step to the next

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «accumulative» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.