Accommodate vs Accommodation - What's the difference?
accommodate | accommodation |
(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
(senseid) Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.
(label) Adaptation or adjustment.
# The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.
#* (rfdate), Sir (1609-1676)
# A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.
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# The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.
# The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.
(label) Adaptation or adjustment.
# Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
# Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.
#* (rfdate), (1800-1859)
# (label) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
#* (rfdate), (William Paley) (1743-1805)
# A loan of money.
# An accommodation bill or note.
# An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.
The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.
As a verb 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.As a noun accommodation is
(lodging) Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.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.
External links
* * (Webster 1913) ----accommodation
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
- The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions.
- To come to terms of accommodation .
- Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations .