accepting |
1. v. present participle of accept | |
2. adj. Characterized by acceptance. | |
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. | |
No |
1. adv. (archaic) Alternative form of No. | |
2. n. Alternative form of No. | |
3. n. Alternative form of Noh: a form of classical Japanese drama. | |
4. det. Not any. | |
no one | |
There is no water left. | |
No hot dogs were sold yesterday. | |
No customer personal data will be retained unless it is rendered anonymous. | |
There was no score at the end of the first period. (The score was 0-0.) | |
5. det. Hardly any. | |
We'll be finished in no time at all. | |
6. det. Not any possibility or allowance of (doing something). | |
No smoking | |
There's no stopping her once she gets going. | |
7. det. Not (a); not properly, not really; not fully. | |
My mother's no fool. | |
Working nine to five every day is no life. | |
8. adv. (now only used with comparatives, except in Scotland) Not, not at all. | |
It is a different kind of torture, but no less gruesome. | |
I just want to find out whether she's coming or no. | |
9. part. Used to show disagreement or negation. | |
No, you are mistaken. | |
No, you may not watch television now. | |
10. part. Used to show agreement with a negative question. | |
"Don’t you like milk?" "No" (i.e., "No, I don’t like milk.") | |
11. part. (colloquial) As if to say, "No, don’t doubt this!", or to deny an imagined contradictory statement, used to show intense agreement | |
No, totally. | |
No, yeah, that's exactly right. | |
"Wow!" "Yeah, no, it was really awful!". | |
No, yeah | |
12. n. A negating expression; an answer that shows disagreement or disapproval. | |
13. n. A vote not in favor, or opposing a proposition. | |
The workers voted on whether to strike, and there were thirty "yeses" and one "no". | |
14. adv. (archaic) Alternative form of No. | |
15. n. Alternative form of No. | |
refusal |
1. n. The act of refusing. | |
2. n. (civil engineering) Depth or point at which well or borehole drilling cannot continue. | |
or |
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
disagreement |
1. n. An argument or debate. | |
They had a bit of a disagreement about what color to paint the bedroom, but they have reached a compromise. | |
2. n. A condition of not agreeing or concurring. | |
The theory shows considerable disagreement with the data. | |
imperious |
1. adj. Domineering, arrogant, or overbearing. | |
2. adj. Urgent. | |
3. adj. (obsolete) Imperial or regal. | |
dictatorial |
1. adj. of or pertaining to a dictator | |
2. adj. in the manner of a dictator, usually with callous disregard for others | |