Shelter vs Accommodation - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between shelter and accommodation

is that shelter is a refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something while accommodation is (lodging) Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.

As a verb shelter

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

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.

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.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10 , passage=Mr. Cooke had had a sloop?yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.}}

# 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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