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ACCOMMODATE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose

Example:

Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country

Synonyms:

accommodate; adapt

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "accommodate" is one way to...):

alter; change; vary (become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "accommodate"):

transcribe (rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended)

electrify; wire (equip for use with electricity)

naturalise; naturalize (adopt to another place)

Christianize (adapt in the name of Christianity)

cultivate; domesticate; naturalise; naturalize; tame (adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment)

domesticate; tame (make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans)

orient; tailor (adjust to a specific need or market)

shoehorn (fit for a specific purpose even when not well suited)

anglicise; anglicize (make English in appearance)

fit (insert or adjust several objects or people)

gear; pitch (set the level or character of)

adjust (make correspondent or conformable)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

accommodation (in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality)

accommodation (making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make (one thing) compatible with (another)

Example:

The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories

Synonyms:

accommodate; conciliate; reconcile

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "accommodate" is one way to...):

harmonise; harmonize (bring (several things) into consonance or relate harmoniously)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

accommodation (in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality)

accommodation (a settlement of differences)

accommodation (making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Provide a service or favor for someone

Example:

We had to oblige him

Synonyms:

accommodate; oblige

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "accommodate" is one way to...):

abide by; comply; follow (act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

accommodation (the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need)

accommodative (helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation)

accommodator (someone who performs a service or does a favor)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Provide with something desired or needed

Example:

Can you accommodate me with a rental car?

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "accommodate" is one way to...):

cater; ply; provide; supply (give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody with something

Derivation:

accommodation (the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Provide housing for

Example:

We are lodging three foreign students this semester

Synonyms:

accommodate; lodge

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "accommodate" is one way to...):

domiciliate; house; put up (provide housing for)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "accommodate"):

barrack (lodge in barracks)

keep (supply with room and board)

billet; canton; quarter (provide housing for (military personnel))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Derivation:

accommodation (the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need)

accommodation (living quarters provided for public convenience)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Be agreeable or acceptable to

Example:

This suits my needs

Synonyms:

accommodate; fit; suit

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "accommodate" is one way to...):

conform to; fill; fit; fulfil; fulfill; meet; satisfy (fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condtion ro restriction)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

accommodation (making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances)

accommodative (willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Have room for; hold without crowding

Example:

The auditorium can't hold more than 500 people

Synonyms:

accommodate; admit; hold

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Verb group:

contain; hold; take (be capable of holding or containing)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "accommodate"):

sleep (be able to accommodate for sleeping)

house (contain or cover)

seat (be able to seat)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

Ahead of him the river split into many channels to accommodate the freight of islands it carried on its breast.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

This dilates the pupil, producing mydriasis, and prevents the eye from accommodating.

(Cyclopentolate Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

The scarps formed as Mercury’s interior cooled; the planet’s shrinking was accommodated by the crustal rocks being pushed together, thrusting them upward along fault lines.

(‘Great Valley’ Found on Mercury, NASA)

Additional criteria for defining Hereditary Non-Polyposis Colorectal Cancer (HNPCC) families designed to accommodate the range of cancers that can be present in HNPCC families: 1.

(Amsterdam Criteria II, NCI Thesaurus)

A therapeutically inactive ingredient of a solid pharmaceutical dosage form that is used to increase the volume of the material to accommodate easier processing of the drug and to make it a suitable size for patient consumption Typical fillers include calcium phosphate (also an added source of both minerals), lactose, powder, sucrose powder.

(Filler Excipient, NCI Thesaurus)

A therapeutically inactive ingredient of a fluid pharmaceutical dosage form that is used to increase the volume of the material to accommodate easier processing of the drug (especially accurate dilutions) and to make it a suitable size for patient consumption.

(Diluent Excipient, NCI Thesaurus)

The bay, as he remembered it, was magnificent, with water deep enough to accommodate the largest vessel afloat, and so safe that the South Pacific Directory recommended it to the best careening place for ships for hundreds of miles around.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And Edmund, silenced, was obliged to acknowledge that the charm of acting might well carry fascination to the mind of genius; and with the ingenuity of love, to dwell more on the obliging, accommodating purport of the message than on anything else.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Here they were interrupted by a request from Mrs. Thorpe to Mrs. Allen, that she would move a little to accommodate Mrs. Hughes and Miss Tilney with seats, as they had agreed to join their party.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I have every hope that the company may accommodate you.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)