Accept vs Argue - What's the difference?
accept | argue |
To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
* (rfdate)
* (rfdate), Psalms 20:3
To admit to a place or a group.
To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
To endure patiently.
(transitive, legal, business) To agree to pay.
To receive officially
To receive something willingly.
(obsolete) Accepted.
* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), , V-ii
(obsolete) To prove.
To shows grounds for concluding ((that)); to indicate, imply.
* 1910 , , "The Soul of Laploshka", Reginald in Russia :
To debate, disagree or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints.
To have an argument, a quarrel.
To present (a viewpoint or an argument therefor).
As verbs the difference between accept and argue
is that accept is to receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval while argue is .As an adjective accept
is (obsolete) accepted.accept
English
Verb
(en verb)- She accepted of a treat.
- The Lord accept thy burnt sacrifice.
- The Boy Scouts were going to accept him as a member.
- I accept the fact that Christ lived.
- I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.
- I accept my punishment.
- to accept the report of a committee
- I accept .
Synonyms
* receive * take * withtake * admitAntonyms
* reject * declineDerived terms
* accepted * acceptedly * accepter * acceptive * accept a bill * accept person * accept serviceAdjective
(en adjective)- Pass our accept and peremptory answer.
argue
English
Verb
(argu)- To have killed Laploshka was one thing; to have kept his beloved money would have argued a callousness of feeling of which I was not capable.
- He also argued for stronger methods to be used against China.
- He argued as follows: America should stop Lend-Lease convoying, because it needs to fortify its own Army with the supplies.
- The two boys argued because of disagreement about the science project.
- He argued his point.
- He argued that America should stop Lend-Lease convoying because it needed to fortify its own Army with the supplies.