Accord

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  • intransitive verb. To give or grant, especially as being due or appropriate.
  • intransitive verb. To cause to conform or agree; bring into harmony.
  • intransitive verb. To be in agreement, unity, or harmony. synonym: correspond.
  • noun. Agreement; harmony.
  • noun. A settlement or compromise between conflicting parties.
  • noun. Spontaneous or voluntary desire to take a certain action.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To agree; be in correspondence or harmony.
  • To make an agreement; come to an understanding.
  • To make to agree or correspond; adapt, as one thing to another.
  • To bring to an agreement or a settlement; settle, adjust, or compose; reconcile: as, to accord controversies.
  • To grant; give; concede: as, to accord due praise to any one.
  • noun. Agreement; harmony of minds; consent or concurrence of opinions or wills; assent.
  • noun. A union of different sounds which is agreeable to the ear; concord; harmony.
  • noun. Agreement; just correspondence of things; harmony of relation: as, the accord of light and shade in painting.
  • noun. Will; voluntary or spontaneous impulse or act; unaided action or operation: preceded by own.
  • noun. Adjustment of a difference; reconciliation: as, the mediator of an accord.
  • noun. Specifically, in law, an agreement which is made between parties for the settlement of a liability or controversy, and which, when executed, that is, carried into effect, is termed an accord and satisfaction, and bars or terminates a suit; a private extra-judicial agreement or arrangement.
  • noun. In music, same as chord.
  • noun. Milit., the conditions under which a fortress or command of troops is surrendered.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.
  • noun. Harmony of sounds; agreement in pitch and tone; concord.
  • noun. Agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things.
  • noun. Voluntary or spontaneous motion or impulse to act; -- preceded by own.
  • noun. An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit.
  • noun. with unanimity.
  • transitive verb. To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust; -- followed by to.
  • transitive verb. To bring to an agreement, as persons; to reconcile; to settle, adjust, harmonize, or compose, as things.
  • transitive verb. To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award.
  • intransitive verb. To agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; -- followed by with, formerly also by to.
  • intransitive verb. To agree in pitch and tone.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
  • noun. A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.
  • noun. Agreement or harmony of things in general.
  • noun. An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
  • noun. An international agreement.
  • noun. Assent
  • noun. Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.
  • verb. To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
  • verb. To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
  • verb. To agree or correspond; to be in harmony.
  • verb. To agree in pitch and tone.
  • verb. To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
  • verb. To give consent.
  • verb. To arrive at an agreement.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a written agreement between two states or sovereigns
  • noun. sympathetic compatibility
  • verb. go together
  • noun. concurrence of opinion
  • noun. harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters
  • verb. allow to have
  • Word Usage
    "Champ an 'stick up for him too; he's good blood, an' ef he did go under for a spell, he ain't no worse 'n the rest, nor half ez bad; for Champ went in _of his own accord -- of his own accord_, "he repeated significantly," an' don't you forget thet, Aileen!"
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    Ford  Lord  Verwoerd  Ward  abhorred  
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    OK  accede  accede to  accept  acceptance  
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