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Accept

//əkˈsɛpt// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Accepted. Early, Modern, obsolete

    "Pass our accept and peremptory answer."

Noun
  1. 1
    Something that is accepted.

    "Almost all line segments will be trivial accepts or trivial rejects, so the above covers the vast majority of cases."

Verb
  1. 1
    To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval. transitive

    "Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice."

  2. 2
    tolerate or accommodate oneself to wordnet
  3. 3
    To admit to a place or a group. transitive

    "The Boy Scouts were going to accept him as a member."

  4. 4
    consider or hold as true wordnet
  5. 5
    To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in. transitive

    "I accept the notion that Christ lived."

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  1. 6
    be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal wordnet
  2. 7
    To receive as adequate or satisfactory. transitive
  3. 8
    react favorably to; consider right and proper wordnet
  4. 9
    To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to. transitive

    "I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse."

  5. 10
    give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to wordnet
  6. 11
    To endure patiently. transitive

    "I accept my punishment."

  7. 12
    make use of or accept for some purpose wordnet
  8. 13
    To acknowledge patiently without opposition or resistance. transitive

    "We need to accept the fact that restaurants are closed due to COVID-19 and that no amount of wishing or screaming will make them reopen any sooner."

  9. 14
    receive (a report) officially, as from a committee wordnet
  10. 15
    To agree to pay. transitive
  11. 16
    receive willingly something given or offered wordnet
  12. 17
    To receive officially. transitive

    "to accept the report of a committee"

  13. 18
    admit into a group or community wordnet
  14. 19
    To receive something willingly. intransitive
  15. 20
    take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person wordnet
  16. 21
    To do a service done by an establishment. Philippines

    "We accept repairs."

  17. 22
    be designed to hold or take wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

First attested about 1380. From Middle English accepten, borrowed from Old French accepter, or directly from Latin acceptō, acceptāre (“receive”), frequentative of accipiō, formed from ad- + capiō (“to take”). Displaced native Old English onfōn.

Etymology 2

First attested about 1380. From Middle English accepten, borrowed from Old French accepter, or directly from Latin acceptō, acceptāre (“receive”), frequentative of accipiō, formed from ad- + capiō (“to take”). Displaced native Old English onfōn.

Etymology 3

First attested about 1380. From Middle English accepten, borrowed from Old French accepter, or directly from Latin acceptō, acceptāre (“receive”), frequentative of accipiō, formed from ad- + capiō (“to take”). Displaced native Old English onfōn.

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