Access vs Visit - What's the difference?
access | visit |
(uncountable) A way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage.
* All access was thronged. - Milton
(uncountable) The act of approaching or entering; an advance.
(uncountable) The right or ability of approaching or entering; admittance; admission; accessibility.
(uncountable) The quality of being easy to approach or enter.
* c. 1600 , (William Shakespeare), Act 2 Scene 1
* {{quote-news, year=2011
, date=September 20
, author=Graeme Paton
, title=University access plan 'will fail', says Russell Group
, work=Telegraph
(uncountable) Admission to sexual intercourse.
* 1760s , (William Blackstone),
(countable) An increase by addition; accession; as, an access of territory.
* I, from the influence of thy looks, receive access in every virtue. - Milton
(countable) An onset, attack, or fit of disease; an ague fit.
* The first access looked like an apoplexy. - Burnet
(countable) An outburst of an emotion; a paroxysm; a fit of passion; as, an access of fury.
* 1946 , Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History (Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by D.C. Somervell)
(uncountable, legal) The right of a non-custodial parent to visit their child.
(uncountable, computing) The process of locating data in memory.
(uncountable, Internet) Connection to or communication with a computer program or to the Internet.
To gain or obtain access to.
(computing) To have access to (data).
Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
* Bible, (w) i. 68
* 1611 , Bible , Authorized (King James) Version, (w) I.6:
To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
(intransitive) To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability.
* 1788 , (Edward Gibbon), (The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) , volume 68:
Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone).
* 1890 , (James George Frazer), (The Golden Bough) :
To inflict punishment, vengeance for (an offense) (on) or (upon) someone.
* 2011 , John Mullan, The Guardian , 2 Dec 2011:
To go to (a shrine, temple etc.) for worship. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
To go to (a place) for pleasure, on an errand, etc.
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, title=, chapter=1
, passage=There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”}}
A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home.
In transitive terms the difference between access and visit
is that access is to gain or obtain access to while visit is to go to (a place) for pleasure, on an errand, etc.access
English
Etymology 1
* First attested in the early 14th century. * (entrance) First attested about 1380. * From (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
- I did repel his fetters, and denied His access to me. - Shakespeare, Hamlet, II-i
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- During coverture, access of the husband shall be presumed, unless the contrary be shown.
- It appears that, about the middle of the fourth century of the Christian Era, the Germans in the Roman service started the new practice of retaining their native names; and this change of etiquette, which seems to have been abrupt, points to a sudden access of self-confidence and self-assurance in the souls of the barbarian personnel which had previously been content to 'go Roman' without reservations.
- Usage note: sometimes confused with excess
Derived terms
* direct access * random access * remote accessEtymology 2
* First attested in 1962.Verb
(es)- I can't access most of the data on the computer without a password.
References
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English
Verb
(en verb)- [God] hath visited and redeemed his people.
- Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread.
- Her life was spared by the clemency of the emperor, but he visited the pomp and treasures of her palace.
- There used to be a sharp contest as to where the effigy was to be made, for the people thought that the house from which it was carried forth would not be visited with death that year.
- If this were an Ibsen play, we would be thinking of the sins of one generation being visited upon another, he said.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}