different between accord vs resemblance

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

Alternative forms

• resemblaunce

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman resemblance, from Old French (compare French ressemblance).

Morphologically resemble +? -ance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???z?mbl?ns/

Noun

resemblance (countable and uncountable, plural resemblances)

1. The quality or state of resembling

   Synonyms: likeness, similitude, similarity

2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
3. A comparison; a simile.
4. Probability; verisimilitude.

Synonyms

• likeness

Translations

Old French

Etymology

resembler +? -ance.

Noun

resemblance f (oblique plural resemblances, nominative singular resemblance, nominative plural resemblances)

1. similarity (taken as a whole, the qualities than make two or more things similar)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (resemblance, supplement)
• resemblance on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub (has no entry, but lists one citation)