Accord
[ə'kɔːd] or [ə'kɔrd]
Definition
(noun.) sympathetic compatibility.
(noun.) concurrence of opinion; 'we are in accord with your proposal'.
(verb.) allow to have; 'grant a privilege'.
Editor: William--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.
(v. t.) Harmony of sounds; agreement in pitch and tone; concord; as, the accord of tones.
(v. t.) Agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting.
(v. t.) Voluntary or spontaneous motion or impulse to act; -- preceded by own; as, of one's own accord.
(v. t.) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit.
(v. t.) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust; -- followed by to.
(v. t.) To bring to an agreement, as persons; to reconcile; to settle, adjust, harmonize, or compose, as things; as, to accord suits or controversies.
(v. t.) To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise.
(v. i.) To agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; -- followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks.
(v. i.) To agree in pitch and tone.
Editor: Will
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Grant, concede, vouchsafe, deign.
v. n. Harmonize, correspond, agree, tally, quadrate, be in unison, be harmonious, square.
n. Agreement, ACCORDANCE.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Agree, consent, harmonize, tally, answer, comport, consist, conform, grant,concede, surrender, allow
ANT:Disagree, differ, misfit, miscomport, misconform, withhold, deny, refuse
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Definition
v.i. to agree: to be in correspondence (with).—v.t. to cause to agree: to reconcile: to grant (to of a person).—n. agreement: harmony.—n. Accord′ance agreement: conformity—also Accord′ancy.—adj. Accord′ant agreeing: corresponding.—adv. Accord′antly.—p.adj. Accord′ing in accordance: agreeing: harmonious.—adv. Accord′ingly agreeably: suitably: in agreement (with what precedes).—According as in proportion as or agreeably as; According to in accordance with or agreeably to.—Of one's own accord of one's own spontaneous motion.
Editor: Maris
Examples
- The marriage was scarcely in accord with the old man's wishes, for the bandmaster's pockets were as light as his occupation. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I was puzzled, because I could not make the glimpses of furniture I saw accord with my knowledge of any of these apartments. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- They will flock to him, he said, of their own accord, if he pays them. Plato. The Republic.
- As if with one accord, they all turned their eyes towards the light of the fire shining through the window. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I wish it would kill something of its own accord. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He further gave me leave to accompany the prisoner to London; but declined to accord that grace to my two friends. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- A maximum reading can then be made by manipulating the flexible connections, and this will show whether the two circuits are in accord. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- According to that doctrine, motives deprive us not of free-will, nor take away our power of performing or forbearing any action. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- One was the fact that his father should, according to his account, cry 'Cooee! Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- According to Miss Batesit all came from herMrs. Dixon had written most pressingly. Jane Austen. Emma.
- We have applied this test to three general aims: Development according to nature, social efficiency, and culture or personal mental enrichment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Musical instruments maybe divided into three groups according to the different ways in which their tones are produced:-- _First. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Twice or thrice in the year, according to her promise, she wrote him letters to Madras, letters all about little Georgy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Every thing, that is different is distinguishable: and everything, that is distinguishable, may be separated, according to the maxims above-explained. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- This promise was graciously accorded, and they separated upon great terms of amity. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He was puzzled over the kind reception accorded to him by this strange Justinian, who he had been led to believe was a kind of modern freebooter. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Until we reach the headquarters of Tal Hajus it is the will of Lorquas Ptomel that you be accorded the respect your acts have earned you. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- And whom, I added, has the honour of serving been accorded me? Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The shadow in which she sat, falling like a gloomy veil across her forehead, accorded very well with the character of her beauty. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The latter accorded not with the principles of freedom which they had been taught to revere. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Probably no industrial operation excites more widespread interest, when accorded publicity, than the mining of coal, and that because of the dangers which attend it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But whether it is true, we can judge only by seeing how far the hypothesis accords with and explains the general phenomena of nature. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Forbes, Pictet, and Woodward (though all strongly opposed to such views as I maintain) admit its truth; and the rule strictly accords with the theory. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The idea of stately simplicity accords well with your character. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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