accommodation

substantivo

1. 1

   Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or students, etc.

   I have booked the accommodation for my trip to Paris.

   So, it's settled. I'm going to Penzance. Hooray! I've even booked my accommodation.

   Having returned to my accommodation and explained my hurriedly decided change of plans, I then drove back to Dublin for even more research.

   If you’re looking for a Caribbean adventure with luxurious accommodation then this is the place for you.

2. 2

   Adaptation or adjustment. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.

   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. 3

   Adaptation or adjustment. A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.

   ...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.

   Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.

4. 4

   Adaptation or adjustment. The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.

5. 5

   Adaptation or adjustment. The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.

6. 6

   Adaptation or adjustment. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.

7. 7

   Adaptation or adjustment. Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.

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8. 8

   Adaptation or adjustment. The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.

   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. 9

   Adaptation or adjustment. A loan of money.

10. 10

    Adaptation or adjustment. An accommodation bill or note.

11. 11

    Adaptation or adjustment. An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.

12. 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.

13. 13

    The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.

14. 14

    Modification(s) to make one's way of communicating similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse.

Formas

plural

accommodations