Accommodation vs Amalgamation - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between accommodation and amalgamation

is that accommodation is (senseid) lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc while amalgamation is the process of amalgamating; a mixture, merger or consolidation.

accommodation

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(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)

The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions.

# 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)

To come to terms of accommodation .

# (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)

Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations .

# 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.

Derived terms

: The definitions should be entered into dedicated entries for the terms defined. * accommodation bill, or note, (Commerce): a bill of exchange which a person accepts, or a note which a person makes and delivers to another, not upon a consideration received, but for the purpose of raising money on credit * accommodation coach, or train: one running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations * accommodation ladder, (Nautical): a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats * holiday accommodation

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amalgamation

English

Noun

(wikipedia amalgamation) (en noun)

The process of amalgamating; a mixture, merger or consolidation.

The result of amalgamating; a mixture or alloy.

# (specifically) The production of an alloy of mercury and another metal.

(obsolete) The intermarriage and interbreeding of different ethnicities or races.