Term:accept
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1) accept: consider or hold as true; “I cannot accept the dogma of this church”; “accept an argument”
2) accept, take, have: receive willingly something given or offered; “The only girl who would have him was the miller’s daughter”; “I won’t have this dog in my house!”; “Please accept my present”
3) accept, consent, go for: give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to; “I cannot accept your invitation”; “I go for this resolution”
4) accept: react favorably to; consider right and proper; “People did not accept atonal music at that time”; “We accept the idea of universal health care”
5) accept, admit, take, take on: admit into a group or community; “accept students for graduate study”; “We’ll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member”
6) bear, take over, accept, assume: take on as one’s own the expenses or debts of another person; “I’ll accept the charges”; “She agreed to bear the responsibility”
7) accept, live with, swallow: tolerate or accommodate oneself to; “I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions”; “I swallowed the insult”; “She has learned to live with her husband’s little idiosyncrasies”
8) accept, take: be designed to hold or take; “This surface will not take the dye”
9) accept: receive (a report) officially, as from a committee
10) take, accept: make use of or accept for some purpose; “take a risk”; “take an opportunity”
11) accept: be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal; “The cow accepted the bull”
verb accept has 11 sense(s) (first 7 from tagged texts)
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Accept may refer to:
- Acceptance, a person's assent to the reality of a situation
- Accept (band), German heavy metal band
- Accept (Accept album), their debut album from 1979
- Accept (Chicken Shack album), 1970
- Accept (organization), a Romanian LGBT rights organisation
- accept(), a computer programming function provided by the Berkeley sockets API