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Accommodate vs Orient - What's the difference?

accommodate | orient |

As a verb accommodate

is (transitive|often|reflexive) to render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.

As an adjective accommodate

is (label) suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.

As a proper noun orient is

countries of asia, especially east asia.

As a noun orient is

a pear cultivar from the united states.

accommodate

English

Verb

(accommodat)
  • (transitive, often, reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.
  • They accommodate their counsels to his inclination. -
  • 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.
  • Synonyms

    * suit; adapt; conform; adjust; arrange.

    Antonyms

    * (obsolete) discommodate

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (label) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.
  • * John Tillotson
  • 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.

    orient

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To familiarize with a situation or circumstance.
  • Give him time to orient himself within the new hierarchy.
  • To set the focus of so as to relate or appeal to a certain group.
  • We will orient our campaign to the youth who are often disinterested.
  • To point at or direct towards.
  • I will orient all of the signs to face the road.
  • To determine which direction one is facing.
  • Let me just orient myself and we can be on our way.
  • To place or build so as to face eastward.
  • To change direction so as to face east.
  • (by extension) To change direction to face a certain way.
  • Synonyms

    * orientate (UK)

    Derived terms

    () * orientate (UK) * orientation * orienteer

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Orient)
  • The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east.
  • * Tennyson
  • [Morn] came furrowing all the orient into gold.
  • (obsolete) A pearl of orient.
  • * 1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , Vintage 2007, p. 120:
  • Henry II wore jewelled gloves reaching to the elbow, and had a hawk-glove sewn with twelve rubies and fifty-two great orients .
    (Carlyle)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete, poetic) Rising, like the sun.
  • * Milton
  • Moon, that now meet'st the orient sun
  • eastern; oriental
  • * Hakluyt
  • the orient part
  • Bright; lustrous; superior; pure; perfect; pellucid; used of gems and also figuratively, because the most perfect jewels are found in the East.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • pearls round and orient
  • * Wordsworth
  • orient gems
  • * Milton
  • orient liquor in a crystal glass

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