Shelter vs Accommodate - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between shelter and accommodate

is that shelter is to provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect while accommodate is to contain comfortably; to have space for.

As a noun shelter

is a refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.

As an adjective accommodate is

suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.

shelter

English

Noun

(en noun)

A refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.

* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne

, title=Well Tackled! , chapter=7 citation , passage=The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.}}

An institution that provides temporary housing for homeless people, battered women etc.

Derived terms

* bus shelter

Verb

(en verb)

To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.

* Dryden

Those ruins sheltered once his sacred head.

* Southey

You have no convents in which such persons may be received and sheltered .

To take cover.

During the rainstorm, we sheltered under a tree.

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.

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