different between shelter vs accommodate

English

Etymology

From Middle English sheltron, sheldtrume (“roof or wall formed by locked shields”), from Old English s?ildtruma, s?yldtruma (“a phalanx, company (of troops), a tortoise, a covering, shed, shelter”, literally “shield-troop”), from s?yld, s?ield (“shield”) + truma (“a troop of soldiers”). Cognate with Scots schilthrum, schiltrum. More at shield, and Old English trymman (“to strengthen”), from trum (“strong, firm”) at trim.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???lt?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???lt?/
• Rhymes: -?lt?(r)

Noun

shelter (plural shelters)

1. A refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.
2. An institution that provides temporary housing for homeless people, battered women etc.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

shelter (third-person singular simple present shelters, present participle sheltering, simple past and past participle sheltered)

1. (transitive) To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.
   • 1663, John Dryden, Epistle to Dr. Charleton

     Those ruins sheltered once his sacred head.

   • 1829, Robert Southey, Sir Thomas More; or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society

     You have no convents […] in which such persons may be received and sheltered.

2. (intransitive) To take cover.

   During the rainstorm, we sheltered under a tree.

Translations

Anagrams

• Ehlerts, Hertels, Shetler, helters, three Ls

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.