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restrict
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin restrictus, perfect passive participle of restring? (“draw back tightly; restrain, restrict”), from re- (“back, again”) + string? (“press, tighten, compress”). Doublet of ristretto as an adjective.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???st??kt/
- Rhymes: -?kt
Verb
restrict (third-person singular simple present restricts, present participle restricting, simple past and past participle restricted)
- To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine
- (specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
- If we restrict sine to , we can define its inverse.
Synonyms
- (to restrain within bounds): limit, bound, circumscribe, withstrain, restrain, repress, curb, coerce
Related terms
- restriction
- restraint
- restrain
Translations
Adjective
restrict (comparative more restrict, superlative most restrict)
- (obsolete) Restricted.
Anagrams
- critters, stricter
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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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