Meaning of accommodation | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or students, etc
2. Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.
   British, countable, uncountable
3. Adaptation or adjustment. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment. A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need. The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part. The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object
4. The adjustment in the focal length of the lens of the eye. Accommodation permits images at different distances to be focused on the retina.
5. Adaptation or adjustment.
   countable, physical, uncountable, with-to
6. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.
   countable, physical, uncountable, with-to
7. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment
8. The eye’s ability to change the convexity of its lens in order to focus on objects at different distances.
9. A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.
   countable, physical, uncountable
10. A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need
11. obliging; helpful. toegeeflik مُسَاعِد، سَلِس، لَطِيف услужлив prestativo ochotný, úslužný entgegenkommend imødekommende; føjelig; medgørlig εξυπηρετικόςcomplaciente vastutulelik خوش برخورد؛ مشتاق به کمک دادن mukautuva accommodantנח, נוח, מוכן לעזור नमनशील uslužan alkalmazkodó membantu, mematuhi greiðvikinn accomodante 協調的な 남을 잘 돌보는 paslaugus pakalpīgs; piekāpīgs membantu tegemoetkomendforekommende, elskverdigusłużny, idący na rękę شه لګيدل ،اړه مرستي ته prestável amabil, serviabil услужливый...
12. The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.
    countable, physical
13. The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part
14. acomodación, ajustamiento; [lodging] alojamiento;amplitude of ___ → amplitud de ___;
15. The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.
    countable, physical
16. The act of accommodating or the state of being accommodated; adjustment.
17. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
    countable, personal, uncountable
18. Something that meets a need; a convenience.
19. Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.
    countable, personal, uncountable
20. accommodationsa. Room and board; lodgings.
21. The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
    countable, personal
22. Reconciliation or settlement of opposing views.
23. A loan of money.
    countable, personal
24. Physiology The automatic adjustment in the focal length of the lens of the eye to permit retinal focus of images of objects at varying distances.
    Physiology
25. An accommodation bill or note.
    countable, personal
26. A financial favor, such as a loan.
27. An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.
    countable, personal
28. 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.
    countable, personal, uncountable
29. The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.
    countable
30. Modification(s) to make one's way of communicating similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The accommodations at that hotel were quite luxurious.”

“It is true, the organization of the humane and animal Body, with accommodation to their several functions and offices, is certainly fitted with the most curious and exact Mechanism imaginable”

“...and Lady Anne, for the present, felt as if Fanchette and her coach full of accommodations, heavy as they might once be supposed to be, were suddenly swallowed up in that awful sea, to which so many refractory spirits have been exorcised and consigned.”

“Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.”

“Some of the recent literature on the Germanic settlements reads like an account of a tea party at the Roman vicarage. A shy newcomer to the village, who is a useful prospect for the cricket team, is invited in. There is a brief moment of awkwardness, while the host finds an empty chair and pours a fresh cup of tea; but the conversation, and village life, soon flow on. The accommodation that was reached between invaders and invaded in the fifth- and sixth-century West was very much more difficult, and more interesting, than this.”

“It is probable to my apprehension, that many of those quotations were intended by the writers of the New Testament as nothing more than accommodations.”

“Pilots […] use the word fuselage whereas laypeople would more likely call the same "thing" the body of an aircraft. […] We have said above that speakers often signal that they belong to a certain group by making their language more similar to that of the other group members […] we thus adapt our language, dialect, accent, style and/or register to that of our addressee or addressees. This process is called speech accommodation. Among the reasons for accommodation may be our desire to identify more closely with the addressee(s), […]”

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