Accommodate
[ə'kɒmədeɪt] or [ə'kɑmədet]
Definition
(verb.) make (one thing) compatible with (another); 'The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories'.
(verb.) provide with something desired or needed; 'Can you accommodate me with a rental car?'.
(verb.) have room for; hold without crowding; 'This hotel can accommodate 250 guests'; 'The theater admits 300 people'; 'The auditorium can't hold more than 500 people'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.
(v. t.) To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.
(v. t.) To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.
(v. t.) To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.
(v. i.) To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted.
(a.) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Oblige, serve, supply, furnish, do a service for, supply the wants of, minister to the convenience of.[2]. Fit, suit, adapt, make conform, make conformable.[3]. Reconcile, adjust, settle, compose.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Convenience, oblige, adapt, supply, reconcile, suit, fit, adjust, furnish,serve, harmonize
ANT:Inconvenience, disoblige, disturb, misfit, incommode, deprive, aggravate
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Definition
v.t. to adapt: to make suitable: to adjust: to harmonise or force into consistency (to): to furnish or supply (with): to provide entertainment for.—p.adj. Accom′modating affording accommodation: obliging: pliable: easily corrupted.—n. Accommodā′tion convenience: fitness: adjustment: obligingness: an arrangement or compromise: (theol.) an adaptation or method of interpretation which explains the special form in which the revelation is presented as unessential to its contents or rather as often adopted by way of compromise with human ignorance or weakness: a loan of money.—adj. Accom′modative furnishing accommodation: obliging.—ns. Accom′modativeness; Accom′modator.—Accommodation bill a bill drawn accepted or endorsed by one or more persons as security for a sum advanced to another by a third party as a banker; Accommodation ladder a stairway at the outside of a ship's gangway to facilitate access to boats.
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Examples
- You don't know half of what I do to accommodate Society. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I hope I have learnt how to accommodate myself to the changes of life. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The flanges easily accommodate the balls when placed on the chute by the pin boy. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The design in building not being to accommodate any particular sect, but the inhabitants in general. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It is adapted to carry 6,000 tons burthen, in addition to the engines and requisite quantity of fuel, and to accommodate 2,000 passengers. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- When my mother removes into another house my services shall be readily given to accommodate her as far as I can. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- The revolving disk-shaped cutter E is rotated by a pulley and belt from a drum, which latter is made long enough to accommodate the travel of the frame. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- There is no railway out of London whereon the carriages run so smoothly, and on which the passengers are so conveniently accommodated, as on the Great Western. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- She accommodated herself to one as to the other. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The Orfling was likewise accommodated with an inexpensive lodging in the same neighbourhood. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The necessary steam boilers were accommodated in the basement, while the second floor was occupied by six generators of 125 horse-power each, nicknamed Jumbos. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Miss Flite has been bravely rescued from her chamber, as if it were in flames, and accommodated with a bed at the Sol's Arms. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The seats had also their stained coverings, and one, which was higher than the rest, was accommodated with a footstool of ivory, curiously carved. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Could I be accommodated, Sammy? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Mr. Whiffers then added that he feared a portion of this outrage might be traced to his own forbearing and accommodating disposition. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He was a cheery, accommodating rascal. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The practice is quiet, said I, and I have an accommodating neighbor. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- She walked along at his side, and, gently accommodating himself to her humour, he said Coketown was a busy place, was it not? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Your manner of accommodating the accounts to your hypothesis of descending spouts is, I own, in ingenious, and perhaps that hypothesis may be true. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- But this is not a reason for nominally accepting one educational philosophy and accommodating ourselves in practice to another. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- His manners were easy and accommodating, and his address winning and respectful. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The second one illustrated (Fig. 18) is of standard size and accommodates a quantity of food equal to that of any large range oven. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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