accommodation

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /əˌkɒm.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/    美 /əˌkɑ.məˈdeɪ.ʃən/|/əˌkɔm.əˈdæɪ.ʃən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or students, etc. Australia,UK,countable,uncountable
    — I have booked the accommodation for my trip to Paris.
  2. Adaptation or adjustment.; The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment. countable,physical,uncountable,with-to
    — It is true, the organization of the humane and animal Body, with accommodation to their several functions and offices, is certainly fitted with the most curious and exact Mechanism imaginable
  3. Adaptation or adjustment.; A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need. countable,physical,uncountable
    — ...and Lady Anne, for the present, felt as if Fanchette and her coach full of accommodations, heavy as they might once be supposed to be, were suddenly swallowed up in that awful sea, to which so many refractory spirits have been exorcised and consigned.
  4. Adaptation or adjustment.; The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part. countable,physical
  5. Adaptation or adjustment.; The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object. countable,physical
  6. Adaptation or adjustment.; Willingness to accommodate; obligingness. countable,personal,uncountable
  7. Adaptation or adjustment.; Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise. countable,personal,uncountable
    — Some of the recent literature on the Germanic settlements reads like an account of a tea party at the Roman vicarage. A shy newcomer to the village, who is a useful prospect for the cricket team, is invited in. There is a brief moment of awkwardness, while the host finds an empty chair and pours a fresh cup of tea; but the conversation, and village life, soon flow on. The accommodation that was reached between invaders and invaded in the fifth- and sixth-century West was very much more difficult, and more interesting, than this.
  8. Adaptation or adjustment.; The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. countable,personal
    — It is probable to my apprehension, that many of those quotations were intended by the writers of the New Testament as nothing more than accommodations.
  9. Adaptation or adjustment.; A loan of money. countable,personal
  10. Adaptation or adjustment.; An accommodation bill or note. countable,personal
  11. Adaptation or adjustment.; An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted. countable,personal
  12. Adaptation or adjustment.; An adaptation or method of interpretation which explains the special form in which the revelation is presented as unessential to its contents, or rather as often adopted by way of compromise with human ignorance or weakness. countable,personal,uncountable
  13. The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation. countable
  14. Modification(s) to make one's way of communicating similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse. countable,uncountable
    — Pilots […] use the word fuselage whereas laypeople would more likely call the same "thing" the body of an aircraft. […] We have said above that speakers often signal that they belong to a certain group by making their language more similar to that of the other group members […] we thus adapt our language, dialect, accent, style and/or register to that of our addressee or addressees. This process is called speech accommodation. Among the reasons for accommodation may be our desire to identify more closely with the addressee(s), […]

词形变化

accommodations plural accomodation alternative,misspelling

词汇关系

衍生词
accom accommodation address accommodational accommodation bill accommodation coach accommodation house accommodationism accommodationist accommodation ladder accommodation line accommodation on arrival accommodation paper accommodation train communication accommodation theory disaccommodation dispersal accommodation house of accommodation nonaccommodation overaccommodation reaccommodation underaccommodation

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin com-
Proto-Indo-European *med-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Italic *medos
Latin modus
Latin commodusnom.
Latin commodum
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin commodō
Latin accommodō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin accommodātiōnembor.
French accommodationbor.
English accommodation
From French accommodation, from Latin accommodātiō (“adjustment, accommodation, compliance”), from accommodō (“adapt, put in order”). Superficially accommodate + -ion. The sense of "lodging" was first attested in 1600.
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