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
- noun A formal agreement, especially between countries or groups.
- verb To be in agreement or match with something.
agree — full definition
- verb To share the same opinion as someone else.
- verb To say yes to a plan, request, or arrangement.
- verb In grammar, to match another word in form, such as a verb matching its subject in number.