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English Dictionary: accommodate	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
accommodate v be agreeable or acceptable to; "This suits my needs" [syn: suit, accommodate, fit] make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country" Synonym(s): adapt, accommodate provide with something desired or needed; "Can you accommodate me with a rental car?" 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" Synonym(s): accommodate, hold, admit provide housing for; "We are lodging three foreign students this semester" Synonym(s): lodge, accommodate provide a service or favor for someone; "We had to oblige him" Synonym(s): oblige, accommodate Antonym(s): disoblige make (one thing) compatible with (another); "The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories" Synonym(s): accommodate, reconcile, conciliate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Accommodate \Accom"modate\, v. i. To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted. [R.] --Boyle.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Accommodate \Accom"modate\, a. [L. accommodatus, p. p. of accommodare.] Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. [Archaic] --Tillotson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Accommodate \Accom"modate\, 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. [bd]They accommodate their counsels to his inclination.[b8] --Addison. 2. To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc. 3. To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings. 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. Syn: To suit; adapt; conform; adjust; arrange.