Acclimatise vs Accommodate - What's the difference?
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(transitive, often, reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.
To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.
To provide housing for; to furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.
To do a favor or service for; to oblige;
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.
To give consideration to; to allow for.
To contain comfortably; to have space for.
(rare) To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
(label) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.
* John Tillotson
Accommodate is a synonym of acclimatise.
As verbs the difference between acclimatise and accommodate
is that acclimatise is standard spelling of from=Non-Oxford British spelling|from2=NZ|lang=en|acclimatize while accommodate is to render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.As an adjective accommodate is
suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.acclimatise
English
Verb
(en-verb)- The England manager can be encouraged by more evidence that Rickie Lambert has quickly acclimatised to international football, with another headed goal to add to the one he scored against Scotland, but Welbeck's ban comes at a time when Wayne Rooney and Andy Carroll are already out and Daniel Sturridge is likely to join them.
accommodate
English
Verb
(accommodat)- They accommodate their counsels to his inclination. -
Synonyms
* suit; adapt; conform; adjust; arrange.Antonyms
* (obsolete) discommodateAdjective
(en adjective)- God did not primarily intend to appoint this way of worship, and to impose it upon them as that which was most proper and agreeable to him; but that he condescended to it as most accommodate to their present state and inclination.
