Accommodate vs Cater - What's the difference?
accommodate | cater |
(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
To provide food professionally for a special occasion.
To provide things to satisfy a person or a need, to serve.
In transitive terms the difference between accommodate and cater
is that accommodate is to contain comfortably; to have space for while cater is to provide food professionally for a special occasion.In obsolete terms the difference between accommodate and cater
is that accommodate is suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end while cater is to cut diagonally.As an adjective accommodate
is suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.As a noun cater is
a provider; a purveyor; a caterer.accommodate
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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) ----cater
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Etymology 1
From (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- Did you hire someone to cater our party next week?
- I always wanted someone to cater to my every whim.
