From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
accept
v 1: consider or hold as true; "I cannot accept the dogma of this
church"; "accept an argument" [ant: reject]
2: 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"
[syn: take, have] [ant: refuse]
3: give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to; "I
cannot accept your invitation"; "I go for this resolution"
[syn: consent, go for] [ant: refuse]
4: 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: 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" [syn: admit, take, take on]
6: take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another
person; "I'll accept the charges"; "She agreed to bear the
responsibility" [syn: bear, take over, assume]
7: 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 idiosyncracies" [syn: live with, swallow]
8: be designed to hold or take; "This surface will not take the
dye" [syn: take]
9: of a deliberative body: receive (a report) officially, as
from a committee
10: make use of or accept for some purpose; "take a risk"; "take
an opportunity" [syn: take]
11: be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated
mammal; "The cow accepted the bull"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Accept \Ac*cept"\ ([a^]k*s[e^]pt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Accepted; p. pr. & vb. n. Accepting.] [F. accepter, L.
acceptare, freq. of accipere; ad + capere to take; akin to E.
heave.]
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1. To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as,
to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.
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If you accept them, then their worth is great.
--Shak.
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To accept of ransom for my son. --Milton.
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She accepted of a treat. --Addison.
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2. To receive with favor; to approve.
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The Lord accept thy burnt sacrifice. --Ps. xx. 3.
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Peradventure he will accept of me. --Gen. xxxii. 20.
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3. To receive or admit and agree to; to assent to; as, I
accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.
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4. To take by the mind; to understand; as, How are these
words to be accepted?
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5. (Com.) To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to
accept a bill of exchange. --Bouvier.
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6. In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty
imposed; as, to accept the report of a committee. [This
makes it the property of the body, and the question is
then on its adoption.]
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To accept a bill (Law), to agree (on the part of the
drawee) to pay it when due.
To accept service (Law), to agree that a writ or process
shall be considered as regularly served, when it has not
been.
To accept the person (Eccl.), to show favoritism. "God
accepteth no man's person." --Gal. ii. 6.
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Syn: To receive; take; admit. See Receive.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Accept \Ac*cept"\, a.
Accepted. [Obs.] --Shak.
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 Sep 2003) [foldoc]:
accept
<library, networking> Berkeley Unix networking socket
library routine to satisfy a connection request from a remote
host. A specified socket on the local host (which must be
capable of accepting the connection) is connected to the
requesting socket on the remote host. The remote socket's
socket address is returned.
Unix manual pages: accept(2), connect(2).
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