to take or receive (something offered); receive with approval or favor: to accept a present; to accept a proposal.
2.
to agree or consent to; accede to: to accept a treaty; to accept an apology.
3.
to respond or answer affirmatively to: to accept an invitation.
4.
to undertake the responsibility, duties, honors, etc., of: to accept the office of president.
5.
to receive or admit formally, as to a college or club.
6.
to accommodate or reconcile oneself to: to accept the situation.
7.
to regard as true or sound; believe: to accept a claim; to accept Catholicism.
8.
to regard as normal, suitable, or usual.
9.
to receive as to meaning; understand.
10.
Commerce. to acknowledge, by signature, as calling for payment, and thus to agree to pay, as a draft.
11.
(in a deliberative body) to receive as an adequate performance of the duty with which an officer or a committee has been charged; receive for further action: The report of the committee was accepted.
12.
to receive or contain (something attached, inserted, etc.): This socket won't accept a three-pronged plug.
13.
to receive (a transplanted organ or tissue) without adverse reaction. Compare reject(def. 7).
–verb (used without object)
14.
to accept an invitation, gift, position, etc. (sometimes fol. by of).
[Origin: 1350–1400; ME accepten < MF accepter < L acceptare, equiv. to ac-ac-+ -cep- take, comb. form of cap- + -t- freq. suffix]
—Synonyms 2. concede. 7. acknowledge.
—Antonyms 1. reject.
—Usage note Accept and except are sometimes confused as verbs because of their similar pronunciations, esp. in rapid speech. Accept means “to take or receive” (I accept this trophy), while except means “to exclude” (Certain types of damage are excepted from coverage in this insurance policy).
c.1360, "to take what is offered," from O.Fr. accepter from L. acceptare "take or receive willingly," freq. of acceptus, pp. of accipere "receive," from ad- "to" + capere "to take" (see capable).
consider or hold as true; "I cannot accept the dogma of this church"; "accept an argument" [ant: reject]
2.
receive willingly something given or offered; "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" [ant: decline]
3.
give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to; "I cannot accept your invitation"; "I go for this resolution" [ant: decline]
4.
react favorably to; consider right and proper; "People did not accept atonal music at that time"; "We accept the idea of universal health care"
5.
admit into a group or community; "accept students for graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member"
6.
take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person; "I'll accept the charges"; "She agreed to bear the responsibility" [syn: bear]
7.
tolerate or accommodate oneself to; "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies"
8.
be designed to hold or take; "This surface will not take the dye"
9.
receive (a report) officially, as from a committee
10.
make use of or accept for some purpose; "take a risk"; "take an opportunity" [syn: take]
11.
be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal; "The cow accepted the bull"
to take (something offered) Example: He accepted the gift.
Arabic:
يَقْبَل، يَتَقَبَّل
Chinese (Simplified):
接受
Chinese (Traditional):
接受
Czech:
přijmout
Danish:
tage imod
Dutch:
aannemen
Estonian:
vastu võtma
French:
accepter
German:
annehmen
Greek:
δέχομαι
Hungarian:
elfogad
Icelandic:
þiggja
Indonesian:
menerima
Italian:
accettare
Japanese:
受取る
Korean:
받다, 수납하다
Latvian:
pieņemt (piedāvājumu)
Lithuanian:
priimti
Norwegian:
ta imot
Polish:
przyjmować
Portuguese (Brazil):
aceitar
Portuguese (Portugal):
aceitar
Romanian:
a accepta, a primi
Russian:
принимать
Slovak:
prijať
Slovenian:
sprejeti
Spanish:
aceptar
Swedish:
motta
Turkish:
kabul etmek, almak
accept2[əkˈsept]verb
to believe in, agree to or acknowledge Example: We accept your account of what happened; Their proposal was accepted; He accepted responsibility for the accident.
acceptlibrary, networking BerkeleyUnix networking socket library routine to satisfy a connection request from a remote host. A specified socket on the local host (which must be capable of accepting the connection) is connected to the requesting socket on the remote host. The remote socket's socket address is returned. Unix manual pages: accept(2), connect(2). (1994-11-08)
Ac*cept"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accepted; p. pr. & vb. n. Accepting.] [F. accepter, L. acceptare, freq. of accipere; ad + capere to take; akin to E. heave.]1. To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of. If you accept them, then their worth is great. --Shak. To accept of ransom for my son. --Milton. She accepted of a treat. --Addison. 2. To receive with favor; to approve. The Lord accept thy burnt sacrifice. --Ps. xx. 3. Peradventure he will accept of me. --Gen. xxxii. 20. 3. To receive or admit and agree to; to assent to; as, I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse. 4. To take by the mind; to understand; as, How are these words to be accepted? 5. (Com.) To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange. --Bouvier. 6. 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.] To accept a bill (Law), to agree (on the part of the drawee) to pay it when due. To accept service (Law), to agree that a writ or process shall be considered as regularly served, when it has not been. To accept the person (Eccl.), to show favoritism. "God accepteth no man's person." --Gal. ii. 6. Syn: To receive; take; admit. See Receive.
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