Restrict vs Accommodate - What's the difference?
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To restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; as, to restrict worlds to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet.
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(specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
(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
Restrict is a related term of accommodate.
As verbs the difference between restrict and accommodate
is that restrict is to restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; as, to restrict worlds to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet while accommodate is (transitive|often|reflexive) to render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.As adjectives the difference between restrict and accommodate
is that restrict is (obsolete) restricted while accommodate is (label) suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.restrict
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Verb
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- If we restrict sine to , we can define its inverse.
Synonyms
* (to restrain within bounds) limit, bound, circumscribe, withstrain, restrain, repress, curb, coerceAnagrams
* *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.