different between accord vs answer

English

Etymology

• First attested in the late 13th century.
• From Middle English accorden, acorden, borrowed from Old French acorder (compare modern French accord and accorder), from Vulgar Latin *accord?, accord?re (“to be heart to heart with”), formed from Latin ad + cor (“heart”).
• The verb is first attested in early 12th century.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??k??d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??k??d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Noun

accord (countable and uncountable, plural accords)

1. Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
   • 1769, The King James Bible - Oxford Standard Text, Acts 1:14

     These all continued with one accord in prayer.
2. A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.
3. Agreement or harmony of things in general.

4. (law) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
5. (international law) An international agreement.

6. (obsolete) Assent
7. Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.

Synonyms

• (concurrence of opinion): consent, assent
• (international agreement): treaty

Derived terms

• of one's own accord
• with one accord

Related terms

• chord

Translations

Verb

accord (third-person singular simple present accords, present participle according, simple past and past participle accorded)

1. (transitive) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
2. (transitive) To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
3. (intransitive) To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant.
   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.

4. (intransitive) To agree in pitch and tone.
5. (transitive, law) To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To give consent.
7. (intransitive, archaic) To arrive at an agreement.

Translations

Derived terms

French

Etymology

Deverbal of accorder. Compare with Catalan acord.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.k??/

Noun

accord m (plural accords)

1. chord
2. agreement
3. permission, consent

Derived terms

• accord parfait
• accorder
• d'accord
• d'un commun accord
• désaccord

Descendants

• ? Danish: akkord
• ? German: Akkord
• ? Norwegian Bokmål: akkord
• ? Norwegian Nynorsk: akkord

Further reading

• “accord” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• cocard

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

accord m (plural accords)

1. (Jersey) agreement

English

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Alternative forms

• answeare, aunswer, aunswere (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???n.s?/, /?an.s?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æn.s?/
• (æ-tensing, rhotic) IPA^(key): [?e?n.s?]
• (æ-tensing, non-rhotic) IPA^(key): [?e?n.s?]
• Hyphenation: an?swer
• Rhymes: -??ns?(?), -æns?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English answere, andsware, from Old English andswaru (“answer”), from and- (“against”) +? -swaru (“affirmation”), (from Proto-Indo-European *h?ent- (“front, forehead”) and Old English swerian (“to swear”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer-), suggesting an original meaning of "a sworn statement rebutting a charge". The cognates suggest the existence of Proto-Germanic *andaswar? (“a reply to a question”). Cognate with Old Frisian ondser (“answer”), Old Saxon andsw?r (“answer”), Danish and Swedish ansvar (“liability, responsibility, answer”), Icelandic andsvar (“answer, response”). Compare also Old English andwyrde (“answer”) (cognate to Dutch antwoord, German Antwort), Old English andcwiss (“reply”), German Schwur (“oath, vow”).

Noun

answer (plural answers)

1. A response or reply; something said or done in reaction to a statement or question.

2. A solution to a problem.

3. (law) A document filed in response to a complaint, responding to each point raised in the complaint and raising counterpoints.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• ask

Etymology 2

From Middle English answeren, andswaren, answerien, from Old English andswarian, answarien (“to answer, to respond, to deny an allegation under oath”), from Proto-Germanic *andaswar?n?, *andaswarjan? (“to answer, to give a response, to rebut”), from *anda- (“against”) +? *swarjan?, *swar?n? (“to swear an oath, to answer, to respond”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to swear”) and *h?ent- (“face, forehead”), equivalent to and- (“against, back”) +? swear. Cognate with Old Frisian ondswera (“to answer”), Danish ansvare (“to answer, account for”), Swedish ansvara (“to answer, account for”), Icelandic andsvara (“to answer, reply”).

Verb

answer (third-person singular simple present answers, present participle answering, simple past and past participle answered)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make a reply or response to.

2. (transitive) To speak in defence against; to reply to in defence.

3. (transitive, intransitive) To respond to a call by someone at a door or telephone, or other similar piece of equipment.

4. (transitive, intransitive) To suit a need or purpose satisfactorily.
   • 1871, Alexander J. Ellis, On Early English Pronunciation, London: Trübner & Co., Part III, Chapter 7, section 1, p. 656, footnote 1,^[1]

     Of course for publication in a newspaper, my palaeotype would not answer, but my glossotype would enable the author to give his Pennsylvania German in an English form and much more intelligibly.

5. To be accountable or responsible; to make amends.

   Synonym: answer for
6. (law) To file a document in response to a complaint.
7. To correspond to; to be in harmony with; to be in agreement with.
   • 1775, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Duenna, Dublin: G. Burnet et al., 1794, Act II, Scene 2, p. 25,^[2]

     Egad, I wish she had answer’d her picture as well.

   • 1793, Bryan Edwards, The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, Dublin: Luke White, Volume II, Book V, Chapter 2, p. 231,^[3]

     The use of dunder in the making of rum, answers the purpose of yeast in the fermentation of flour.

8. To be opposite, or to act in opposition.
   • 1786, William Gilpin, Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1772: on several parts of England; particularly the mountains, and lakes of Cumberland, and Westmoreland, London: R. Blamire, Volume II, Section 19, p. 85,^[4]

     The windows answering each other, we could just discern the glowing horizon through them […]

9. To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; usually with to.
10. To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification; to refute.
11. To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, or demand.
12. (obsolete) To render account to or for.
13. (obsolete) To atone for; to be punished for.
14. (obsolete) To be or act as an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• question

Anagrams

• Warnes, awners, resawn

Middle English

Noun

answer

1. Alternative form of answere