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Accepting
- verb - admit into a group or community; "accept students for graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member"
- be designed to hold or take; "This surface will not take the dye"
- be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal; "The cow accepted the bull"
- consider or hold as true; "I cannot accept the dogma of this church"; "accept an argument"
- give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to; "I cannot accept your invitation"; "I go for this resolution"
- make use of or accept for some purpose; "take a risk"; "take an opportunity"
- react favorably to; consider right and proper; "People did not accept atonal music at that time"; "We accept the idea of universal health care"
- receive (a report) officially, as from a committee
- receive willingly something given or offered; "The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter"; "I won't have this dog in my house!"; "Pleas
Acception
- - Acceptation; the received meaning.
Acceptive
- adjective - accepting willingly; "acceptive of every new idea"; "an acceptant type of mind"
- inclined to accept rather than reject; "she was seldom acceptive of my suggestions"
Acceptors
- noun - (chemistry) in the formation of a coordinate bond it is the compound to which electrons are donated
- the person (or institution) who accepts a check or draft and becomes responsible for paying the party named in the draft when it matures
Accosting
- verb - approach with an offer of sexual favors; "he was solicited by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in the park"
- Greeted
- speak to someone
Accouters
- verb - provide with military equipment
Accoutred
- verb - provide with military equipment
- provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose (especially military); "troops accoutered for battle"; "properly accoutered for the trip"
Accoutres
- verb - provide with military equipment
Accreting
- verb - grow or become attached by accretion; "The story accreted emotion"
- grow together (of plants and organs); "After many years the rose bushes grew together"
Accretion
- noun - (astronomy) the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases
- (biology) growth by addition as by the adhesion of parts or particles
- (geology) an increase in land resulting from alluvial deposits or waterborne sediment
- (law) an increase in a beneficiary's share in an estate (as when a co-beneficiary dies or fails to meet some condition or rejects the inheritance)
- an increase by natural growth or addition
- Any gradual increase in size as through growth or external addition.
- something contributing to growth or increase; "he scraped away the accretions of paint"; "the central city surrounded by recent accretions"