<B>accentuality, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality of being accentual. <BR><I>expr. <B>accentualities,</B> </I>accentual characteristics. <BR> <I>Ex. With an insight into the accentualities ... of modern Saxon (Charles Lamb).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="accentuate">
<B>accentuate, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ated,</B> <B>-ating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to call special attention to; emphasize; intensify. <BR> <I>Ex. The twinkle in her eyes accentuated her smile.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to pronounce with an accent; stress. <DD><B> 3. </B>to mark with an accent; place an accent or accents on. <DD><B> 4. </B>to increase the severity of; aggravate. <BR> <I>Ex. The problem is accentuated by a shortage of teachers and classrooms (Atlantic).</I> noun <B>accentuator.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="accentuation">
<B>accentuation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an accentuating; emphasis. <DD><B> 2. </B>manner of pronunciation. <DD><B> 3. </B>the marking of accent or stress in speech. </DL>
<A NAME="accept">
<B>accept, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to take or receive (what is offered or given); consent to take. <BR> <I>Ex. I accept your gift gratefully.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to consent to; say yes to. <BR> <I>Ex. She asked me to go to the party and I accepted her invitation.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to take as true or satisfactory; believe. <BR> <I>Ex. The teacher won't accept your excuse.</I> (SYN) acknowledge. <DD><B> 4. </B>to receive with liking and approval. <BR> <I>Ex. I soon accepted the new student as a friend. The design of the new car was not accepted by the public. Scholars now generally accept Einstein's theory of relativity.</I> (SYN) approve. <DD><B> 5. </B>to undertake as a responsibility. <BR> <I>Ex. My sister accepted a position as cashier.</I> (SYN) assume. <DD><B> 6. </B>(Commerce.) to sign and agree to pay. <BR> <I>Ex. to accept a promissory note.</I> <DD><B> 7. </B>to receive (a committee report) as satisfactory. <DD><B> 8. </B>to understand; construe. <BR> <I>Ex. Can we accept this interpretation of the manuscript as correct?</I> <DD><B> 9. </B>(Medicine.) to take into the body without rejecting. <BR> <I>Ex. A mouse whose thymus has been removed ... will accept a skin graft from an unrelated animal, whereas normal mice invariably reject such foreign grafts (Scientific American).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to say yes to an invitation; accept a suggestion or offer. <BR> <I>Ex. I was invited and I accepted.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="acceptability">
<B>acceptability, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality of being satisfactory or acceptable. </DL>
<A NAME="acceptable">
<B>acceptable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>likely to be gladly received or accepted; agreeable. <BR> <I>Ex. Flowers are an acceptable gift to a sick person.</I> (SYN) pleasing, welcome. <DD><B> 2a. </B>good enough; satisfactory. <BR> <I>Ex. The singer gave an acceptable performance but it was not outstanding. He received an acceptable mark on the test but his sister won honors.</I> (SYN) passable. <DD><B> b. </B>capable of being tolerated; bearable. <BR> <I>Ex. ... a defence system would work to the extent of reducing damage but not to the extent of making nuclear war acceptable (London Times).</I> noun <B>acceptableness.</B> adv. <B>acceptably.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="acceptance">
<B>acceptance, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of taking what is offered or given to one. <BR> <I>Ex. The teacher's acceptance of the flowers they brought delighted the children.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>favorable reception; approval. <BR> <I>Ex. The violinist played with marked acceptance.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the act of taking as true and satisfactory; belief. <BR> <I>Ex. The acceptance of the atomic theory by physicists has led to many scientific discoveries.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Commerce.) <DD><B> a. </B>a promise or signed agreement to pay a draft or bill of exchange when it is due. <DD><B> b. </B>the draft or bill of exchange itself. <DD><B> c. </B>the sum specified by it. <BR> <I>Ex. an acceptance of $10,000.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>the state or condition of being accepted. <BR> <I>Ex. She was thrilled by her acceptance into the club.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="acceptancehouse">
<B>acceptance house</B> or <B>accepting house,</B> =merchant bank.</DL>
<A NAME="acceptancerate">
<B>acceptance rate,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Commerce.) the rate of interest demanded or paid on an acceptance. </DL>
<A NAME="acceptancy">
<B>acceptancy, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> willingness to receive; receptiveness. </DL>
<A NAME="acceptant">
<B>acceptant, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> receptive. <DD><I>noun </I> a person who accepts. </DL>
<A NAME="acceptation">
<B>acceptation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the usual meaning; the generally accepted meaning. <BR> <I>Ex. It is more important to know the acceptation of a word than its derivation.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>favorable reception; approval. <BR> <I>Ex. That hypothesis will have a better claim to acceptation (J. A. Brown).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a taking as true and satisfactory; belief. </DL>
<B>accepter, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who accepts something offered or given. </DL>
<A NAME="acceptive">
<B>acceptive, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>suitable for acceptance; acceptable. <DD><B> 2. </B>ready to accept. <BR> <I>Ex. ... reverently acceptive of every Victorian formula (Edmund Gosse).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="acceptor">
<B>acceptor, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who accepts; accepter. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who signs a draft or bill of exchange and agrees to pay it. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Chemistry.) an atom sharing two electrons in a bond with another atom but contributing neither electron. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Radio.) a circuit that allows ready reception of a particular frequency and no other. </DL>
<A NAME="access">
<B>access, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the right or privilege to approach, enter, or use; admittance. <BR> <I>Ex. All children have access to the library during the afternoon.</I> (SYN) admission. <DD><B> 2. </B>approach to places, persons, or things. <BR> <I>Ex. Access to mountain towns is often difficult because of poor roads. Have you access to people who can help you get work?</I> (SYN) accessibility. <DD><B> 3. </B>a way or means of approach; entrance. <BR> <I>Ex. A ladder provided the only access to the attic. (Figurative.) A minister must try every access to the conscience.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>an attack (of disease). <BR> <I>Ex. the access of her asthma in the spring.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(Figurative.) an outburst, as of anger. <DD><B> 6. </B>increase; accession. <DD><B> 7. </B>the act of coming toward; approach. <BR> <I>Ex. the access of winter.</I> (SYN) onset. <DD><B> 8. </B><B>=access time.</B> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to obtain access to; reach. <BR> <I>Ex. The pallets run ... in open, parallel passageways, which can only be accessed from each end (New Scientist).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to retrieve (data) from a computer. <BR> <I>Ex. ... the ability of a program to access a remote data set as if it were local with no special planning (David J. Farber).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="accessary">
<B>accessary, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ries,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Law.) <B>=accessory.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="accessibility">
<B>accessibility, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the condition of being easy to reach or get at. <DD><B> 2. </B>openness to influence. </DL>
<A NAME="accessible">
<B>accessible, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>easy to get at; easy to reach or enter. <BR> <I>Ex. tools readily accessible on an open rack. A telephone should be put where it will be accessible.</I> (SYN) convenient. <DD><B> 2. </B>that can be entered or reached. <BR> <I>Ex. This rocky island is accessible only by helicopter.</I> (SYN) approachable. <DD><B> 3. </B>that can be obtained. <BR> <I>Ex. Not many facts about the kidnapping were accessible.</I> (SYN) available. <BR><I>expr. <B>accessible to,</B> </I>capable of being influenced by; susceptible to. <BR> <I>Ex. An open-minded person is accessible to reason.</I> noun <B>accessibleness.</B> adv. <B>accessibly.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="accession">
<B>accession, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the act of attaining to a right, office, or station; attainment. <BR> <I>Ex. The king's death was followed by the prince's accession to the throne.</I> <DD><B> 2a. </B>an increase; addition. <BR> <I>Ex. The accession of 40 new pupils overcrowded the school.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>that which is added. <BR> <I>Ex. There are many new novels in the accessions to the library.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>agreement; assent; adherence (to a plan or view). <BR> <I>Ex. We got her accession to the plan.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>the action of coming near; approach; access. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Law.) an addition to property by natural growth or artificial improvement. <DD><I>v.t. </I> (Especially U.S.) to record (additions to a library) by entering the titles and authors in a file, list, or register. </DL>
<A NAME="accessional">
<B>accessional, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or due to accession; giving increase or enlargement; additional. </DL>
<A NAME="accessionbook">
<B>accession book,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a blank book in which the titles of books, periodicals, or pamphlets received by a library are entered, with all necessary details. </DL>
<A NAME="accessionnumber">
<B>accession number,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the number given to a book, periodical, or pamphlet when it is entered in an accession book. </DL>
<A NAME="accessit">
<B>accessit, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a certificate or prize awarded to a student of second (or lower) merit in British and French schools. </DL>
