Word Meanings - ACCOMMODATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to. "The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions." Sir M. Hale. 2. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
Additional info about word: ACCOMMODATION
1. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to. "The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions." Sir M. Hale. 2. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness. 3. Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accomodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn. Sir W. Scott. 4. An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement. "To come to terms of accommodation." Macaulay. 5. The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations. Paley. A loan of money. An accommodation bill or note. Accommodation bill, or note , a bill of exchange which a person accepts, or a note which a person makes and delivers to another, not upon a consideration received, but for the purpose of raising money on credit. -- Accommodation coach, or train, one running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations. -- Accommodation ladder , a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ACCOMMODATION)
- Adaptation
- Accommodation
- adjustment
- admeasurement
- conformity
- coincidence
- Capacity
- Space
- size
- volume
- tonnage
- calibre
- ability
- faculty
- compatability
- cleverness
- talents
- magnitude
- parts
- competency
- compressiveness
- accommodation
Related words: (words related to ACCOMMODATION)
- VOLUMENOMETRY
The method or process of measuring volumes by means of the volumenometer. - VOLUMENOMETER
An instrument for measuring the volume of a body, especially a solid, by means of the difference in tension caused by its presence and absence in a confined portion of air. - ABILITY
The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent. Then - TONNAGE
1. The weight of goods carried in a boat or a ship. 2. The cubical content or burden of a vessel, or vessels, in tons; or, the amount of weight which one or several vessels may carry. See Ton, n. . A fleet . . . with an aggregate tonnage of 60,000 - SPACE
One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc. -- Space line , a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance - VOLUMETRIC
Of or pertaining to the measurement of volume. Volumetric analysis , that system of the quantitative analysis of solutions which employs definite volumes of standardized solutions of reagents, as measured by burettes, pipettes, etc.; also, the - VOLUMETER
An instrument for measuring the volumes of gases or liquids by introducing them into a vessel of known capacity. - CONFORMITY
1. Correspondence in form, manner, or character; resemblance; agreement; congruity; -- followed by to, with, or between. By our conformity to God. Tillotson. The end of all religion is but to draw us to a conformity with God. Dr. H.More. - COINCIDENCE
1. The condition of occupying the same place in space; as, the coincidence of circles, surfaces, etc. Bentley. 2. The condition or fact of happening at the same time; as, the coincidence of the deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. 3. Exact - ACCOMMODATION
1. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to. "The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions." Sir M. Hale. 2. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness. - ADAPTATION
1. The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. "Adaptation of the means to the end." Erskine. 2. The result of adapting; an adapted form. - MAGNITUDE
That which has one or more of the three dimensions, length, breadth, and thickness. 3. Anything of which greater or less can be predicated, as time, weight, force, and the like. 4. Greatness; grandeur. "With plain, heroic magnitude of mind." Milton. - SPACE BAR; SPACE KEY
A bar or key, in a typewriter or typesetting machine, used for spacing between letters. - VOLUMETRICAL
Volumetric. -- Vol`u*met"ric*al*ly, adv. - CAPACITY
Legal or noral qualification, as of age, residence, character, etc., necessary for certain purposes, as for holding office, for marrying, for making contracts, will, etc.; legal power or right; competency. Capacity for heat, the power of absorbing - SPACELESS
Without space. Coleridge. - ADJUSTMENT
Settlement of claims; an equitable arrangement of conflicting claims, as in set-off, contribution, exoneration, subrogation, and marshaling. Bispham. 3. The operation of bringing all the parts of an instrument, as a microscope or telescope, into - SPACEFUL
Wide; extensive. Sandys. - CLEVERNESS
The quality of being clever; skill; dexterity; adroitness. Syn. -- See Ingenuity. - FACULTY
The body of person to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors in a college. Dean of faculty. See under Dean. -- Faculty of advocates. See - ADORABILITY
Adorableness. - AMENABILITY
The quality of being amenable; amenableness. Coleridge. - SUITABILITY
The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness. - INTRACTABILITY
The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd. - EQUABILITY
The quality or condition of being equable; evenness or uniformity; as, equability of temperature; the equability of the mind. For the celestial bodies, the equability and constancy of their motions argue them ordained by wisdom. Ray. - COMMENSURABILITY
The quality of being commersurable. Sir T. Browne. - DEFLAGRABILITY
The state or quality of being deflagrable. The ready deflagrability . . . of saltpeter. Boyle. - IMMEABILITY
Want of power to pass, or to permit passage; impassableness. Immeability of the juices. Arbuthnot. - INEVITABILITY
Impossibility to be avoided or shunned; inevitableness. Shelford. - EFFUMABILITY
The capability of flying off in fumes or vapor. Boyle. - DISRESPECTABILITY
Want of respectability. Thackeray. - TAMABILITY
The quality or state of being tamable; tamableness. - INSOCIABILITY
The quality of being insociable; want of sociability; unsociability. Bp. Warburton. - OPPOSABILITY
The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace. - INSURMOUNTABILITY
The state or quality of being insurmountable. - REPEALABILITY
The quality or state of being repealable. - INHERITABILITY
The quality of being inheritable or descendible to heirs. Jefferson. - MUTABILITY
The quality of being mutable, or subject to change or alteration, either in form, state, or essential character; susceptibility of change; changeableness; inconstancy; variation. Plato confessed that the heavens and the frame of the world