accept |
1. v. To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval. | |
2. v. To admit to a place or a group. | |
The Boy Scouts were going to accept him as a member. | |
3. v. To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in. | |
I accept the notion that Christ lived. | |
4. v. To receive as adequate or satisfactory. | |
5. v. To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to. | |
I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse. | |
6. v. To endure patiently. | |
I accept my punishment. | |
7. v. (transitive, legal, business) To agree to pay. | |
8. v. To receive officially. | |
to accept the report of a committee | |
9. v. (intransitive) To receive something willingly. | |
I accept. | |
10. adj. (obsolete) Accepted. | |
Your |
1. pron. honoraltcaps, your | |
2. det. Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner). | |
Let's meet tomorrow at your convenience. | |
Is this your cat? | |
3. det. Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners). | |
4. det. A determiner that conveys familiarity and mutual knowledge of the modified noun. | |
Not your average Tom, Dick and Harry. | |
Your Show of Shows | |
Your World with Neil Cavuto | |
Not Your Average Travel Guide | |
5. det. (Ireland) That; the specified (usually used with a human referent) | |
Your man just bought a new car. | |
Have you seen what your one over there is doing? | |
6. contraction. misspelling of you're | |
fate |
1. n. The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events. | |
2. n. The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause. | |
3. n. Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc. | |
Accept your fate. | |
4. n. (mythology) alternative case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings). | |
5. v. To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable. | |
The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur. | |