Frocked and Accommodate
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
verb
- Be agreeable or acceptable to.
- usage: "This suits my needs"
- Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose.
- usage: "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country"
- synonyms: adapt
- Provide with something desired or needed.
- usage: "Can you accommodate me with a rental car"
- Have room for; hold without crowding.
- usage: "This hotel can accommodate 250 guests"; "The theater admits 300 people"; "The auditorium can't hold more than 500 people"
- Provide housing for.
- usage: "We are lodging three foreign students this semester"
- synonyms: lodge
- Provide a service or favor for someone.
- usage: "We had to oblige him"
- synonyms: oblige
- Make (one thing) compatible with (another. )
- usage: "The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories"
- synonyms: reconcile, conciliate
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.t.) To render fit, suitable or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.
- (v.t.) To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.
- (v.t.) To furnish with something desired, needed or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.
- (v.t.) 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.
- (v.i.) To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted.
- (a.) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary