accommodateとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /əˈkɒməˌdeɪt/, [əˈkʰɒməˌdeɪt]
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /əˈkɑməˌdeɪt/, [əˈkʰɑməˌdeɪt]

動詞

accommodate (三人称単数 現在形 accommodates, 現在分詞 accommodating, 過去形および過去分詞形 accommodated)

1. (transitive, often reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.

   Synonyms: adapt, conform, adjust, arrange, suit

   to accommodate ourselves to circumstances

   • 1712 June 18, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, The Spectator, number 475, collected in The Spectator, volume VII^[1], London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, published 1753, page 15:

     IT is an old Obſervation, which has been made of Politicians who would rather ingratiate themſelves with their Sovereign, than promote his real Service, that they accommodate their Counſels to his Inclinations, and adviſe him to ſuch Actions only as his Heart is naturally ſet upon.

2. (transitive) To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.

   Synonym: reconcile

   to accommodate differences

3. (transitive) To provide housing for.

   to accommodate an old friend for a week

4. To provide sufficient space for
   • 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, pages 67-68:

     My next stop is Oxford, which has also grown with the addition of new platforms to accommodate the Chiltern Railways service to London via Bicester - although, short sightedly, the planned electrification from Paddington was canned.

5. (transitive) To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.

   to accommodate a friend with a loan

6. (transitive) To do a favor or service for; to oblige.

   Synonym: oblige

7. (transitive) To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.

   to accommodate prophecy to events

8. (transitive) To give consideration to; to allow for.
9. (transitive) To contain comfortably; to have space for.

   This venue accommodates three hundred people.

10. (intransitive, rare) To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
11. (intransitive, of an eye) To change focal length in order to focus at a different distance.

反意語

• discommodate (廃れた用法)

形容詞

accommodate (comparative more accommodate, superlative most accommodate)

1. (obsolete) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.
   • a. 1671, John Tillotson, Sermons Preach’d Upon Several Occaſions, London: A.M., page 181:

     God did not primarily intend to appoint this way of Worſhip, and to impoſe it upon them as that which was moſt proper and agreeable to him ; but that he condeſcended to it, as moſt accommodate to their preſent ſtate and inclination.

Further reading

• accommodate at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “accommodate” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “accommodate” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Latin

副詞

accommodātē (comparative accommodātius, superlative accommodātissimē)

1. suitably

関連する語

• accommodātiō
• accommodātus
• accommodō
• accommodus

参照

• accommodate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• accommodate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• accommodate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be a persuasive speaker: accommodate ad persuadendum dicere