Hypertext Webster Gateway: "accommodation"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Accommodation \Ac*com`mo*da"tion\, n. [L. accommodatio, fr.
accommodare: cf. F. accommodation.]
1. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being
fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by
to. ``The organization of the body with accommodation to
its functions.'' --Sir M. Hale.

2. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.

3. Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or
convenience; anything furnished which is desired or
needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accommodations --
that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn. --Sir W.
Scott.

4. An adjustment of differences; state of agreement;
reconciliation; settlement. ``To come to terms of
accommodation.'' --Macaulay.

5. The application of a writer's language, on the ground of
analogy, to something not originally referred to or
intended.

Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were
probably intended as nothing more than
accommodations. --Paley.

6. (Com.)
(a) A loan of money.
(b) An accommodation bill or note.

{Accommodation bill}, or {note} (Com.), a bill of exchange
which a person accepts, or a note which a person makes and
delivers to another, not upon a consideration received,
but for the purpose of raising money on credit.

{Accommodation coach}, or {train}, one running at moderate
speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations.

{Accommodation ladder} (Naut.), a light ladder hung over the
side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from,
or descending to, small boats.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

accommodation
n 1: making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances
[syn: {adjustment}, {fitting}]
2: a settlement of differences; "they reached an accommodation
with Japan"
3: in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal
representations in order to accommodate a changing
knowledge of reality
4: living quarters provided for public convenience; "overnight
accommodations are available"
5: the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to
meet a need
6: (physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the
lens of the eye


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