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accommodate |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Accommodate \Ac*com"mo*date\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Accommodated}; p. pr & vb n. {Accommodating}.] [L. accommodatus p. p. of accommodare ad + commodare to make fit help; con- + modus measure, proportion. See {Mode}.] 1. To render fit suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as to accommodate ourselves to circumstances. ``They accommodate their counsels to his inclination.'' --Addison. 2. To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust to settle; as to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc 3. To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings. 4. 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. Syn: To suit; adapt; conform; adjust arrange. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Accommodate \Ac*com"mo*date\, v. i. To adapt one's self to be conformable or adapted. [R.] --Boyle. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Accommodate \Ac*com"mo*date\, a. [L. accommodatus p. p. of accommodare.] Suitable; fit adapted; as means accommodate to end [Archaic] --Tillotson. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: accommodate v 1: be agreeable or acceptable to "This suits my needs" [syn: {suit}, {fit}] 2: make fit or tailor something to something "Words accommodate their meanings to other words in the same sentence" [syn: {adapt}] 3: provide with something desired or needed; "Can you accommodate me with a rental car?" 4: 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" [syn: {hold}, {admit}] 5: house temporarily, as a guest [syn: {lodge}] 6: provide a service or favor for someone "We had to oblige him" [syn: {oblige}] [ant: {disoblige}] 7: make compatible with "The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories" [syn: {reconcile}, {conciliate}]
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