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Submitted vs Accept - What's the difference?

submitted | accept |

As verbs the difference between submitted and accept

is that submitted is (submit) while accept is to receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.

As an adjective accept is

(obsolete) accepted.

submitted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (submit)

    • submit

    English

    Verb

    (submitt)
  • To yield or give way to another.
    • They will not submit to the destruction of their rights.
  • or To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
    • I submit these plans for your approval.
  • * Macaulay
    • We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus.
  • (mixed martial arts) To win a fight by submission.
  • * '>citation
    • "[Ronda] Rousey, a former U.S. Olympian in Judo, caps off a perfect year in which she submitted Liz Carmouche in the first-ever UFC female fight and coached opposite [Miesha] Tate in "The Ultimate Fighter" reality series."
  • (obsolete) To let down; to lower.
  • * Dryden
    • Sometimes the hill submits itself a while.
  • (obsolete) To put or place under.
  • * Chapman
    • The bristled throat / Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he cut.

    Derived terms

    * submittable * submittal * submitter

    Related terms

    * submission * submissive

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    accept

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
  • * (rfdate)
    • She accepted of a treat.
  • * (rfdate), Psalms 20:3
    • The Lord accept thy burnt sacrifice.
  • To admit to a place or a group.
    • The Boy Scouts were going to accept him as a member.
  • To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
    • I accept the fact that Christ lived.
  • To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
  • To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
    • I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.
  • To endure patiently.
    • I accept my punishment.
  • (transitive, legal, business) To agree to pay.
  • To receive officially
    • to accept the report of a committee
  • To receive something willingly.
    • I accept .

    Synonyms

    * receive * take * withtake * admit

    Antonyms

    * reject * decline

    Derived terms

    * accepted * acceptedly * accepter * acceptive * accept a bill * accept person * accept service

    Related terms

    * acceptability * acceptable * acceptableness * acceptably * acceptance * acceptancy * acceptant * acceptation * acceptilation * acception * acceptor

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Accepted.
  • * 1599 , (William Shakespeare), , V-ii
    • Pass our accept and peremptory answer.
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