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accommodate
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)
- (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.
- (transitive) To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.
- Synonym: reconcile
- (transitive) To provide housing for.
- To provide sufficient space for
- (transitive) To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.
- (transitive) To do a favor or service for; to oblige.
- Synonym: oblige
- (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.
- (transitive) To give consideration to; to allow for.
- (transitive) To contain comfortably; to have space for.
- (intransitive, rare) To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
- (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)
- (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?)
- 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)
- accommodate
References
- Eagle, Andy, de. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.
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meet
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: m?t, IPA(key): /mi?t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /mit/
- Rhymes: -i?t
- Homophones: meat, mete
Etymology 1
From Middle English meten, from Old English m?tan (“to meet, find, find out, fall in with, encounter, obtain”), from Proto-West Germanic *m?tijan (“to meet”), from Proto-Germanic *m?tijan? (“to meet”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh?d- (“to come, meet”).
Verb
meet (third-person singular simple present meets, present participle meeting, simple past and past participle met)
- To make contact (with) while in proximity.
- To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
- To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
- To get acquainted with someone.
- Captain Edward Carlisle […] felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, […]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
- To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
- (Of groups) To come together.
- To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting.
- At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
- To come together in conflict.
- (sports) To play a match.
- To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting.
- To make physical or perceptual contact.
- To converge and finally touch or intersect.
- Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
- To touch or hit something while moving.
- To adjoin, be physically touching.
- (transitive) To respond to (an argument etc.) with something equally convincing; to refute.
- He met every objection to the trip with another reason I should go.
- To converge and finally touch or intersect.
- To satisfy; to comply with.
- (intransitive) To balance or come out correct.
- 1967, Northern Ireland. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) House of Commons Official Report
- In this instance he has chosen an accountant. I suppose that it will be possible for an accountant to make the figures meet.
- 1967, Northern Ireland. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) House of Commons Official Report
- To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
- To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 28:
- ‘I'm planning a sort of fabliau comparing this place with a fascist state,’ said Sampson, ‘sort of Animal Farm meets Arturo Ui...’
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 28:
Usage notes
In the sense "come face to face with someone by arrangement", meet is sometimes used with the preposition with. Nonetheless, some state that as a transitive verb in the context "to come together by chance or arrangement", meet (as in meet (someone)) does not require a preposition between verb and object; the phrase meet with (someone) is deemed incorrect. See also meet with.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
meet (plural meets)
- (sports) A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
- (hunting) A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
- (rail transport) A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
- Antonym: pass
- (informal) A meeting.
- (algebra) The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ?.
- Antonym: join
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Middle English mete, imete, from Old English ?em?te (“suitable, having the same measurements”), from the Proto-Germanic *gam?tijaz, *m?tiz (“reasonable; estimable”) (cognate with Dutch meten (“measure”), German gemäß (“suitable”) etc.), itself from collective prefix *ga- + Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”).
Alternative forms
- mete (obsolete)
Adjective
meet (comparative meeter, superlative meetest)
- (archaic) Suitable; right; proper.
Derived terms
- meetly
- meetness
- unmeet
- helpmeet
Translations
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “meet”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
- meet at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Teme, etem, mete, teem, teme
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /me?t/
- Hyphenation: meet
- Rhymes: -e?t
Etymology 1
From Latin m?ta.
Noun
meet f (plural meten, diminutive meetje n)
- The finish line in a competition
Etymology 2
Verb
meet
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of meten
- imperative of meten
Anagrams
- mete
Latin
Verb
meet
- third-person singular present active subjunctive of me?
Middle English
Noun
meet
- Alternative form of mete (“food”)
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