Include and Accept

verb

• Have as a part, be made up out of.
  • usage: "The list includes the names of many famous writers"
• Consider as part of something.
  • usage: "I include you in the list of culprits"
• Add as part of something else; put in as part of a set, group, or category.
  • usage: "We must include this chemical element in the group"
• Allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of.
  • usage: "admit someone to the profession"; "She was admitted to the New Jersey Bar"
  • synonyms: admit, let in

• (v.t.) To conclude; to end; to terminate.
• (v.t.) To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason the inference; to contain; to embrace; as, this volume of Shakespeare includes his sonnets; he was included in the invitation to the family; to and including page twenty-five.
• (v.t.) To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell.

verb

• Consider or hold as true.
  • usage: "I cannot accept the dogma of this church"; "accept an argument"
• Receive willingly something given or offered.
  • usage: "The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter"; "I won't have this dog in my house"; "Please accept my present"
  • synonyms: take, have
• Give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to.
  • usage: "I cannot accept your invitation"; "I go for this resolution"
  • synonyms: consent, go for
• React favorably to; consider right and proper.
  • usage: "People did not accept atonal music at that time"; "We accept the idea of universal health care"
• Admit into a group or community.
  • usage: "accept students for graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member"
  • synonyms: admit, take, take on
• Take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person.
  • usage: "I'll accept the charges"; "She agreed to bear the responsibility"
  • synonyms: bear, take over, assume
• Tolerate or accommodate oneself to.
  • usage: "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies"
  • synonyms: live with, swallow
• Be designed to hold or take.
  • usage: "This surface will not take the dye"
  • synonyms: take
• Receive (a report) officially, as from a committee.
• Make use of or accept for some purpose.
  • usage: "take a risk"; "take an opportunity"
  • synonyms: take
• Be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal.
  • usage: "The cow accepted the bull"

• (v.t.) To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.
• (v.t.) To receive with favor; to approve.
• (v.t.) To receive or admit and agree to; to assent to; as, I accept your proposal, amendment or excuse.
• (v.t.) To take by the mind; to understand; as, How are these words to be accepted?.
• (v.t.) To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange.
• (v.t.) In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; as, to accept the report of a committee. [This makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.].
• (a.) Accepted.