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accorder — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • accord noun A formal agreement, especially between countries or groups.
  • agree verb To share the same opinion as someone else.
  • allow verb To give permission for something to happen.
  • award noun A prize or honour given for merit or achievement.
  • bestow verb To give something formally or ceremonially, often as an honour.
  • confer verb To talk something over with others; to discuss and seek advice.
  • entail verb To involve or require something as a necessary consequence.
  • grant verb To give someone permission, a right, or something they have asked for.
  • match noun An organized contest between competitors, as in sport.
  • tune noun A short, memorable melody or piece of music.

Senses

accorder is used for these senses in English:

  • accord (transitive) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
  • agree (intransitive, grammar) To correspond to (another word) in a grammatical category, such as gender, number, case, or person.
  • award (transitive, legal) To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case.
  • bestow To impart (something) gratuitously; to present (something) to someone or something, especially as a gift or an honour; to confer, to give, to accord; to render.
  • entail (transitive) To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage.
  • grant (transitive) To agree with (someone) on (something); to accept (something) for the sake of argument; to admit to (someone) that (something) is true.
  • match (transitive) To agree with; to be equal to; to correspond to.
  • tune To adjust (a musical instrument) so that it produces the correct pitches.

accord — full definition

  1. noun A formal agreement, especially between countries or groups.
  2. verb To be in agreement or match with something.

agree — full definition

  1. verb To share the same opinion as someone else.
  2. verb To say yes to a plan, request, or arrangement.
  3. verb In grammar, to match another word in form, such as a verb matching its subject in number.

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