| 单词 | accommodate |
| 释义 | accommodate (once / 290 pages) 1v 2v 3v 4v If you accommodate, you are making an adjustment to suit a particular purpose. If you accommodate your brother's demand for the attic room, then you give in and let him take over that space. Accommodate entered English in the mid-16th century from the Latin word accommodat-, meaning "made fitting." Whether it refers to changing something to suit someone's wishes or providing someone with something he needs, accommodate typically involves making something fit. You might change your lunch plans, for example, to accommodate your best friend's schedule. Accommodate can also refer to providing housing or having enough space for something. You might need to open up the extra bedroom to accommodate your out-of-town guests. WORD FAMILYaccommodate: accommodated, accommodates, accommodating, accommodation, accommodative, accommodator+/accommodating: accommodatingly, unaccommodating/accommodation: accommodational, accommodations/accommodator: accommodators USAGE EXAMPLESThis pattern, and Bellevue’s capacity to accommodate more of the region’s new jobs and residents, is an important consideration as growth policies evolve. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) It is designed to accommodate the personal and the planetary, political awareness and head-in-the-sand retreat. The New Yorker(Dec 31, 2016) The extra height of the lid accommodates whipped cream or cappuccino foam, and its inner ring reduces “dribble at the rim,” the company’s website says. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1 v have room for; hold without crowding 2This hotel can accommodate 250 guests Syn|Hypo admit, hold contain, hold, take be capable of holding or containing sleep be able to accommodate for sleeping housecontain or cover seatbe able to seat 1v provide with something desired or needed Can you accommodate me with a rental car? Hyper cater, ply, provide, supply give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance 2v provide a service or favor for someone Syn|Ant|Hyper oblige disoblige ignore someone's wishes abide by, comply, follow act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes 3v provide housing for 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper lodge barrack lodge in barracks keepsupply with room and board billet, canton, quarterprovide housing for (military personnel) domiciliate, house, put up provide housing for 1v make (one thing) compatible with (another) The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories Syn|Hyper conciliate, reconcile harmonise, harmonize bring (several things) into consonance or relate harmoniously 2v make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose 4Syn|Hypo|Hyper adapt adjust make correspondent or conformable gear, pitchset the level or character of fitinsert or adjust several objects or people anglicise, anglicizemake English in appearance shoehornfit for a specific purpose even when not well suited orient, tailoradjust to a specific need or market domesticate, tamemake fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans cultivate, domesticate, naturalise, naturalize, tameadapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment Christianizeadapt in the name of Christianity naturalise, naturalizeadopt to another place electrify, wireequip for use with electricity transcriberewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended popularise, popularizemake understandable to the general public alter, change, vary become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence v be agreeable or acceptable to Syn|Hyper fit, suit conform to, fit, meet satisfy a condition or restriction |
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