different between accommodate vs give

English

Etymology

1530s, from Latin accommod?tus, perfect passive participle of accommod?; ad + commod? (“make fit, help”); com- + modus (“measure, proportion”) (English mode).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??k?m??de?t/, [??k??m??de?t]
• (US) IPA^(key): /??k?m??de?t/, [??k??m??de?t]

Verb

accommodate (third-person singular simple present accommodates, present participle accommodating, simple past and past participle accommodated)

1. (transitive, often reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.

   Synonyms: adapt, conform, adjust, arrange, suit

   • 1712 June 18, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, The Spectator, number 475, collected in The Spectator, volume VII^[1], London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, published 1753, page 15:

     IT is an old Ob?ervation, which has been made of Politicians who would rather ingratiate them?elves with their Sovereign, than promote his real Service, that they accommodate their Coun?els to his Inclinations, and advi?e him to ?uch Actions only as his Heart is naturally ?et upon.

2. (transitive) To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.

   Synonym: reconcile

3. (transitive) To provide housing for.

4. To provide sufficient space for
5. (transitive) To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.

6. (transitive) To do a favor or service for; to oblige.

   Synonym: oblige

7. (transitive) 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.

8. (transitive) To give consideration to; to allow for.
9. (transitive) To contain comfortably; to have space for.

10. (intransitive, rare) To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
11. (intransitive, of an eye) To change focal length in order to focus at a different distance.

Antonyms

• discommodate (obsolete)

Translations

Adjective

accommodate (comparative more accommodate, superlative most accommodate)

1. (obsolete) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.

Further reading

• accommodate at OneLook Dictionary Search
• accommodate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Latin

Adverb

accommod?t? (comparative accommod?tius, superlative accommod?tissim?)

1. suitably

Related terms

• accommod?ti?
• accommod?tus
• accommod?
• accommodus

References

• accommodate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• accommodate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• accommodate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??k?m?det]

Verb

accommodate (third-person singular present accommodates, present participle accommodatin, past accomodatit, past participle accommodat)

1. accommodate

References

• Eagle, Andy, de. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English given, from Old Norse gefa (“to give”), from Proto-Germanic *geban? (“to give”). Merged with native Middle English yiven, ?even, from Old English ?iefan, from the same Proto-Germanic source (compare the obsolete inherited English doublet yive).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??v/
• Rhymes: -?v

Verb

give (third-person singular simple present gives, present participle giving, simple past gave, past participle given)

1. (ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
   1. To transfer one's possession or holding of (something) to (someone).

   2. To make a present or gift of.

   3. To pledge.

   4. To provide (something) to (someone), to allow or afford.

   5. To cause (a sensation or feeling) to exist in.

   6. To carry out (a physical interaction) with (something).
   7. To pass (something) into (someone's hand, etc.).

   8. To cause (a disease or condition) in, or to transmit (a disease or condition) to.
2. (ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).

3. (intransitive) To yield slightly when a force is applied.
4. (intransitive) To collapse under pressure or force.

5. (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
   • 2003, Iain Aitken, Value-Driven IT Management: Commercializing the IT Function, page 153

     […] who did not have a culture in which 'giving good presentation' and successfully playing the internal political game was the way up.

   • 2006, Christopher Matthew Spencer The Ebay Entrepreneur, page 248

     A friendly voice on the phone welcoming prospective new clients is a must. Don't underestimate the importance of giving good "phone".

6. (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).

7. (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.

   His window gave the park.

8. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.

   The number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship.

9. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
10. To cause (someone) to have; produce in (someone); effectuate.
11. To allow or admit by way of supposition; to concede.

    He can be bad-tempered, I'll give you that, but he's a hard worker.
12. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
13. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout, etc.).

14. (dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
15. (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).

16. (obsolete) To become soft or moist.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

17. (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
18. (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
    • c. 1608-1634, John Webster, Appius and Virginia, page 16

      My mind gives ye're reserv'd / To rob poor market women.

19. (slang) To be going on, to be occurring

Usage notes

• In older forms of English, when the pronoun thou was in active use, and verbs used -est for distinct second-person singular indicative forms, the verb give had the form givest, and had gavest for its past tense.
• Similarly, when the ending -eth was in active use for third-person singular present indicative forms, the form giveth was used.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (transfer possession of): See Thesaurus:give
• (bend slightly when a force is applied): bend, cede, flex, move, yield, split
• (estimate or predict): estimate, guess, predict
• (provide):

Antonyms

• (transfer possession of): get, obtain, receive, take
• (bend slightly when a force is applied): not bend/cede/flex/give/move/yield, resist

Derived terms

See also given, giver and giving

Translations

Noun

give (uncountable)

1. The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it; a tendency to yield under pressure; resilence.

   This chair doesn't have much give.

   There is no give in his dogmatic religious beliefs.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

give (plural gives)

1. Alternative form of gyve

References

• give at OneLook Dictionary Search

Danish

Alternative forms

• gi' (representing the spoken language)

Etymology

From Old Norse gefa, from Proto-Germanic *geban?, cognate with English give and German geben. The Germanic verbs goes back to Proto-Indo-European *g?eb?- (“to give”) (hence Sanskrit ?????? (gábhasti, “arm”)) rather than *g?eh?b?- (“to grab”) (hence Latin habe? (“to have”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???i?], [???i], (formal) IPA^(key): [???i???]
• Rhymes: -i?, -i?v?

Verb

give (imperative giv, present tense giver, past tense gav, past participle givet, c given, givne)

1. to give

Conjugation

Derived terms

Swedish

Verb

give

1. present subjunctive of giva

Anagrams

• evig