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noun
Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or students, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, UK, countable, uncountable
Qualifier: a mass noun
Synonyms: housing
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Adaptation or adjustment.
The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, physical, uncountable, with-to
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noun
Adaptation or adjustment.
A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, physical, uncountable
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noun
Adaptation or adjustment.
The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, physical
Topics: biology, medicine, natural-sciences, physiology, sciences
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noun
Adaptation or adjustment.
The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, physical
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
Adaptation or adjustment.
Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, personal, uncountable
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noun
Adaptation or adjustment.
Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, personal, uncountable
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noun
Adaptation or adjustment.
The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, personal
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noun
Adaptation or adjustment.
A loan of money.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, personal
Topics: business, commerce
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noun
Adaptation or adjustment.
An accommodation bill or note.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, personal
Topics: business, commerce
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noun
Adaptation or adjustment.
An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, personal
Topics: law
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noun
Adaptation or adjustment.
An adaptation or method of interpretation which explains the special form in which the revelation is presented as unessential to its contents, or rather as often adopted by way of compromise with human ignorance or weakness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, personal, uncountable
Topics: lifestyle, religion, theology
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noun
The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
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noun
Modification(s) to make one's way of communicating similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences, social-science, sociolinguistics, sociology
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noun
(physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the natural lens of the eye
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: alteration, modification, adjustment
noun
the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: aid, assist, assistance, help
Narrower terms: service
noun
living quarters provided for public convenience
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: living quarters, quarters
Narrower terms: cabin class, second class, economy class, first class, lodging house, rooming house, stabling, steerage, tourist class, third class
noun
in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: developmental learning
noun
a settlement of differences
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: settlement
Narrower terms: modus vivendi, compromise
noun
making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: adjustment, fitting
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: improvement, betterment, advance
Narrower terms: readjustment, domestication, habituation, shakedown
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin com- Proto-Indo-European *med- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *medos Latin modus Latin commodusnom. Latin commodum Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh2yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h2tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin commodō Latin accommodō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin accommodātiōnembor. French accommodationbor. English accommodation From French accommodation, from Latin accommodātiō (“adjustment, accommodation, compliance”), from accommodō (“adapt, put in order”). Superficially accommodate + -ion. The sense of "lodging" was first attested in 1600.
Across languages
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