From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
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]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Accommodate \Ac*com"mo*date\, v. i.
To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted. [R.]
--Boyle.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Accommodate \Ac*com"mo*date\, a. [L. accommodatus, p. p. of
accommodare.]
Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.
[Archaic] --Tillotson.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.
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2. To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to
compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate
differences, a dispute, etc.
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3. To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient;
to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a
loan or with lodgings.
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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.
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Syn: To suit; adapt; conform; adjust; arrange.
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