different between submitting vs accept

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?bm?t?, IPA^(key): /s?b?m?.t??/
• Rhymes: -??
• Hyphenation: sub?mit?ting

Verb

submitting

1. present participle of submit

Noun

submitting (plural submittings)

1. (rare, formal) A submission.
   • 1827, Anna Maria Porter, Honor O'Hara (volume 2, page 268)

     With something of her original archness, mingling with graver rebuke, Honoria reminded the rebel of certain dutiful expressions, and religious submittings of the will, with which he had so lately gratified her.

   • 1869, The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review

     Did the Creator see fit to adopt the plan of creation through a series of variations, and submittings of them to selection; or did He, by his fiat, evoke the human form into its acknowledged perfection in an instant?

English

Etymology

First attested about 1380. From Middle English accepten, borrowed from Old French accepter, or directly from Latin accept?, accept?re (“receive”), frequentative of accipi?, formed from ad- + capi? (“to take”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?s?pt/, /æk?s?pt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?s?pt/
• Rhymes: -?pt
• Homophone: except (in some dialects)
• Hyphenation: ac?cept

Verb

accept (third-person singular simple present accepts, present participle accepting, simple past and past participle accepted)

1. (transitive) To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
2. (transitive) To admit to a place or a group.

3. (transitive) To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.

4. (transitive) To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
5. (transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.

6. (transitive) To endure patiently.

7. (transitive, law, business) To agree to pay.
8. (transitive) To receive officially.

9. (intransitive) To receive something willingly.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• receive
• take
• withtake
• admit
• onfang (dialectal, obsolete)

Antonyms

• reject
• decline

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

accept (comparative more accept, superlative most accept)

1. (obsolete) Accepted.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ak?t??ept]

Etymology 1

From German Akzept, from Latin acceptus.

Noun

accept n (plural accepte)

1. acceptance

Declension

Etymology 2

Verb

accept

1. first-person singular present indicative of accepta
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of accepta

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?s?p(t)]

Verb

accept (third-person singular present accepts, present participle acceptin, past acceptit, past participle acceptit)

1. accept

References

• Eagle, Andy, editor (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.

Swedish

Noun

accept c

1. (finance, business) a bill of exchange that has been accepted
2. (finance, business) the acceptance of a bill of exchange

Declension