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accommodate

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Accommodate \Ac*com"mo*date\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   {Accommodated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Accommodating}.] [L.
   accommodatus, p. p. of accommodare; ad + commodare to make
   fit, help; con- + modus measure, proportion. See {Mode}.]
   1. To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to
      conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.
      ``They accommodate their counsels to his inclination.''
      --Addison.

   2. To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to
      compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate
      differences, a dispute, etc.

   3. To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient;
      to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a
      loan or with lodgings.

   4. 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.; as, to
      accommodate prophecy to events.

   Syn: To suit; adapt; conform; adjust; arrange.

Accommodate \Ac*com"mo*date\, v. i.
   To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted. [R.]
   --Boyle.

Accommodate \Ac*com"mo*date\, a. [L. accommodatus, p. p. of
   accommodare.]
   Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.
   [Archaic] --Tillotson.

Source : WordNet®

accommodate
     v 1: be agreeable or acceptable to; "This suits my needs" [syn: {suit},
           {fit}]
     2: make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose; "Adapt our
        native cuisine to the available food resources of the new
        country" [syn: {adapt}]
     3: provide with something desired or needed; "Can you
        accommodate me with a rental car?"
     4: have room for; hold without crowding; "This hotel can
        accommodate 250 guests"; "The theater admits 300 people";
        "The auditorium can't hold more than 500 people" [syn: {hold},
         {admit}]
     5: provide housing for; "We are lodging three foreign students
        this semester" [syn: {lodge}]
     6: provide a service or favor for someone; "We had to oblige
        him" [syn: {oblige}] [ant: {disoblige}]
     7: make compatible with; "The scientists had to accommodate the
        new results with the existing theories" [syn: {reconcile},
         {conciliate}]
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