Accommodation
[əkɒmə'deɪʃ(ə)n] or [ə,kɑmə'deʃən]
Definition
(noun.) (physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the natural lens of the eye.
(noun.) the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need.
(noun.) living quarters provided for public convenience; 'overnight accommodations are available'.
(noun.) in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality.
(noun.) a settlement of differences; 'they reached an accommodation with Japan'.
Editor: Maris--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to.
(n.) Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
(n.) Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accommodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn.
(n.) An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement.
(n.) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
(n.) A loan of money.
(n.) An accommodation bill or note.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Advantage, privilege, convenience, EASEMENT, supply of wants, provision of conveniences.[2]. Agreement, adaptation, fitness, suitableness, conformity.[3]. Reconciliation, adjustment, pacification, settlement.
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Examples
- In one circumstance only even the entreaties of Rebecca were unable to secure sufficient attention to the accommodation of the wounded knight. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The ability of the eye to adjust itself to varying distances is called accommodation. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- However, Mr. Tupman did not volunteer any such accommodation, and the friends walked on, conversing merrily. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Five of these great thoroughfares radiate from one ample centre--a centre which is exceedingly well adapted to the accommodation of heavy artillery. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- That will obviate all difficulties you know; and from _us_ I really think, my dear Jane, you can have no scruple to accept such an accommodation. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I entered--not now obliged to part with my whole fortune as the price of its accommodation. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He assured them of every accommodation, and was about to withdraw when the Black Knight took his hand. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Finding that they would hearken to no terms of accommodation, he laid his petition before the council. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It will be a special accommodation to all concerned, if you don't. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The other exports the accommodation and subsistence of a great number, and imports that of a very few only. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- There's nothing to be ashamed of; it's a matter of mutual accommodation, nothing more. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Ignoring this fact means arrested development, a passive accommodation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Here, even the necessary accommodation of two sitting-rooms and four bed-rooms seemed unattainable. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The letter was from this gentleman himself, and written in the true spirit of friendly accommodation. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Even though the muscles of accommodation do their best to pull out and flatten the lens, the rays are not separated sufficiently to focus as far back as the retina. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- But perhaps your accommodations--your cottage--your furniture--have disappointed your expectations? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Better accommodations, he can promise them, and not a less grateful welcome than at Randalls. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The house now resolved itself into a committee of the whole, to consider the accommodations and arrangements for the meeting. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It is within the memory of many now living everywhere how wretched was the sanitary accommodations in every populous place a generation or two ago. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- And so it happened that some time afterward, when we greatly needed help in the way of loans, the bank willingly gave us the accommodations we required to tide us over a critical period. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Some people imagine that there can be no accommodations, no space in a cottage; but this is all a mistake. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
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