Accept vs Beside - What's the difference?
accept | beside |
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
Next to; at the side of.
Not relevant to.
Besides; in addition to.
* Alexander Pope:
otherwise; else
* Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias :
As a verb accept
is to receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.As an adjective accept
is (obsolete) accepted.As a preposition beside is
next to; at the side of.As an adverb beside is
otherwise; else.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.
beside
English
Preposition
(English prepositions)- A small table beside the bed
- That is beside the point
- To all beside , as much an empty shade, / An Eugene living, as a Caesar dead.
Usage notes
* Not to be confused with besides . See .Derived terms
* besidely * beside oneself * beside the point * besidesAdverb
(-)- Nothing beside remains. Round the decay / Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare / The lone and level sands stretch far away.