accept
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
computing
engineering
law
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: accepts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: accepting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: accepted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: accepted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: accept
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: accept
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: accepted
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: accept
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: acceptest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: accepted
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: acceptedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: accepts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: accepteth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: accepted
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: accept
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: accepted
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: accept
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: accepted
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: accept
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: accepting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: accepted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: accepts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice.
The Chinese say, that a little time afterwards she accepted of a treat in one of the neighbouring hills to which Shalum had invited her.
I bid thee banish from thy heart all thought of me, but as one whom the Future cries aloud to thee to avoid. Glyndon, if thou acceptest his homage, will love thee till the tomb closes upon both.
gloss: To admit to a place or a group.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The Boy Scouts were going to accept him as a member.
gloss: To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I accept the notion that Christ lived.
I can't accept nothing being done about the problem and your standing idly by.
gloss: To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.
gloss: To endure patiently.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I accept my punishment.
gloss: To acknowledge patiently without opposition or resistance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To agree to pay.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To receive officially.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to accept the report of a committee
gloss: To receive something willingly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To do a service done by an establishment.
pos: verb
tags: Philippines
examples: We accept repairs.
We accept bookbinding.
gloss: Something that is accepted.
pos: noun
examples: Almost all line segments will be trivial accepts or trivial rejects, so the above covers the vast majority of cases.
Antonyms: reject
decline
Related words: acceptability
acceptable
acceptableness
acceptably
acceptance
acceptancy
acceptant
acceptation
acceptilation
acception
acceptor
Derived words: accept a bill
accept at face value
accepted
acceptedly
accepted pairing
acceptee
accepter
acceptible
accepting house
acceptive
accept person
accept service
preaccept
reaccept
superaccept
unaccept
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