英语词汇“accommodate”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINaccommodate

Origin:

1500-1600 Latin past participle of accommodare, from ad- ‘to’ + commodare ‘to make fit’, from commodus ‘suitable’

VERB TABLE

accommodate

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	accommodate
	he, she, it	accommodates
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	accommodated
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have accommodated
	he, she, it	has accommodated
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had accommodated
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will accommodate
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have accommodated

Continuous Form
Present	I	am accommodating
	he, she, it	is accommodating
	you, we, they	are accommodating
Past	I, he, she, it	was accommodating
	you, we, they	were accommodating
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been accommodating
	he, she, it	has been accommodating
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been accommodating
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be accommodating
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been accommodating

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

If your microwave is large enough to accommodate the turkey, thaw it in a glass baking dish.
Migrant workers to be accommodated near the place where they work.
Nineteen cabins on the new ship are designed to accommodate disabled passengers.
Once you been accepted at the university they promise to accommodate you in a dormitory.
Students can study the habits of animals that have to accommodate to changes in weather.
The hotel can only accommodate 200 people.
We have made reasonable efforts to accommodate employees' requests for transfers.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

Centers will maintain the flexibility to accommodate changes in specific projects as the need for information changes.
Coach Carr, please adjust the microphone to accommodate your 6 feet 6 inches.
He is a natural opener, and Paul Terry has dropped down the order to accommodate him.
His main task was tastefully to accommodate as many wedding presents into their new homes as was practicable.
Nineteen cabins, more than any other ship, are designed to accommodate disabled passengers.
Remember to adjust the straps at the beginning and the end of the season to accommodate either bare feet or boots.
The ground floor of the new building will accommodate physiotherapy and hydrotherapy departments, orthopaedic clinic and an x-ray room.
We needed all our land to accommodate our growing population.

Longman Language Activatorto provide someone with a place to live► house

if an organization houses someone, it provides them with a home to live in: · The refugees have been fed, clothed and housed by welfare organizations around the world.

► accommodate

formal to provide someone with a place to live, especially someone who is away from their own home, for example a student: · Once you have been accepted at the university they promise to accommodate you in a dormitory.· Migrant workers are to be accommodated near the place where they work.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► car

· Both stations are designed to accommodate six-car trains.· Nearby would be a trail head that could accommodate 15 cars and 10 horse trailers.· The building was enlarged in 1911, as seen here, to accommodate the seasonal toastrack cars used on the Circular Tour.· The road was scarcely wide enough to accommodate two cars travelling abreast but the Audi ploughed up a grass verge.

► change

· To accommodate that change, it also means a knock-out, rather than round-robin format, which is never exactly satisfactory.· Centers will maintain the flexibility to accommodate changes in specific projects as the need for information changes.· It is among a small number of churches designed specifically to accommodate the liturgical changes which followed from the Second Vatican Council.· Still other industries, such as manufacturing, will find it more difficult to accommodate regulatory change.· But homeotherms are not so well structured to accommodate chronic changes in temperature.· People change and so do opportunities; there is a need continually to make choices to accommodate these changes.· Increasingly, change was more easily accommodated as political relationships changes.· These changes also had a significant impact at the political level as government sought to introduce reforms to accommodate these changes.

► child

· Section 46 gives the police power to remove and accommodate children in an emergency.· A family centre may also accommodate the child and his family while they receive advice, guidance and counselling.· Local authorities have a duty to accommodate children in certain circumstances and a power to do so in others.· A vast building programme began, to accommodate all children from 11 to 15, and later to 16.· They needed two tables to accommodate the ten children.

► demand

· The culture is about accepting the statusquo, about accommodating to the demands of the industrial system.· The network was upgraded several times over the last decade to accommodate the increasing demand.· In turn, this stimulated development of switches and routers to accommodate the increasing demands of the networks.

► family

· The city or suburban dwellings of the new class were at first too small to accommodate the extended family.· Large bedrooms with two large beds accommodating the family for little or no extra cost means revenue from extra meals and drinks.· She serves complementary wine and great conversation for those who wish and is willing to accommodate a family.· Buildings designed to accommodate families as independent units were more individual and less institutionalized.· Every one of them insists our public policies must do a better job of supporting and accommodating and encouraging the family.· Not every employer is able to accommodate every work / family conflict and stay in business.

► growth

· About 70% of all new aircraft will be bought by airlines just to accommodate that growth, says Boeing.· To accommodate the ongoing growth, the company has now added a highly advanced environmentally controlled pressure sensor calibration laboratory.

► guest

· The Grand Hall has its own kitchen and bar facility and can accommodate up to 160 guests.· Two ground-floor bedrooms have been designed to accommodate disabled guests.· And perhaps, occasionally, you may be asked to accommodate some very special guests.· The Studios can accommodate up to 300 guests.· Adjoining is the York Suite which accommodates up to 30 guests.

► increase

· This increase was exclusively confined to the private sector which recorded a massive 115 percent increase in the number accommodated.

► need

· However, given prior notice, they will accommodate guests' needs.· Your education programs should be designed to accommodate different needs within your workforce.· By and large, the academic community seems content simply to accommodate to the instrumental needs of post-industrial society.· News directors accommodate the visual needs of politicians because television needs pictures.· Community Based Planners will have to consider alternatives to accommodating the needs of those living in more rural areas.· Spreadsheets and general ledger systems alone can not accommodate the information needs of all managers and executives.

► number

· The school was extended to accommodate the increased number of children and an additional school was built for the infants.· Set them at distances to accommodate the largest possible number or other entry in that column.· Drove roads have wide verges originally to accommodate large numbers of animals on the move.· To accommodate such large numbers, visitors were asked to arrive at different times, all carefully co-ordinated to avoid a jam.· Even with a much smaller capacity than Wembley, Swindon's County Ground accommodates the same number of disabled fans.

► passenger

· Despite their great size, the new cars only seated 56, although their massive platforms could accommodate many standing passengers.· Passengers will sail aboard a 95-foot vessel, which accommodates up to 12 passengers.· One of these saloons, built in 1905, had two double and seven single berths, and accommodated eleven passengers.· Nineteen cabins, more than any other ship, are designed to accommodate disabled passengers.

► people

· The idea that you can accommodate people with these special needs in large units.· However, it has scheduled three extra round trips between Phoenix and Las Vegas on Sunday, to accommodate people staying there.· It was taller than a man, and big enough to accommodate four or five people inside.· Two wards, built for 60 patients each, came to accommodate more than 550 people.· This artificial world would contain enough room to accommodate more than 1016 people.· Sand had been shipped in to form a deeper and wider beach, to accommodate up to two hundred people.

► room

· Our eleven purpose-built meeting halls and ten executive rooms can comfortably accommodate a meeting for six or a major conference hosting hundreds.· This artificial world would contain enough room to accommodate more than 1016 people.· All rooms accommodate up to 3 adults with a small number of rooms able to accommodate two adults and two children.· Walls had been pulled down to make this a room that accommodated nearly all the ground floor.

► space

· This space had previously accommodated the organ loft.· The wider the curtains, or longer the blind, the more space needed to accommodate them.· Some incorporated timber-framed lean-to houses, and the central open space could accommodate livestock.

► student

· The Course also goes a long way to accommodate the not uncommon student experience of making a mistaken choice of degree subject.

► system

· Spreadsheets and general ledger systems alone can not accommodate the information needs of all managers and executives.· Flexibility should be built into the system to accommodate additional indices.· Western models were influential because they met a need for a system that could accommodate diversity.· The money was desperately needed to expand the system to accommodate an ever-increasing population.· Further disk and tape systems can be accommodated, along with up to 64 Transputers.· They were inevitable, for they were part of the capacity of the system to accommodate itself to change.

VERB► build

· In the early 1900s the 4,700-seat auditorium was built to accommodate growing audiences.· The workhouse, erected with its fine boardroom in 1838 at a cost of £2,000, was built to accommodate 170 inmates.· Also, conservatories need not necessarily be built to accommodate an existing door of the house.· In the early eighties the marina was built and now accommodates hundreds of foreign yachts.

► design

· Both stations are designed to accommodate six-car trains.· Receptors come in dozens of varieties, each specially designed to accommodate one of the dozens of neurotransmitters used by the brain.· Storage accommodation had to be designed to accommodate upwards of 10,000 items used in these repairs.· Nineteen cabins, more than any other ship, are designed to accommodate disabled passengers.· Two ground-floor bedrooms have been designed to accommodate disabled guests.· Your education programs should be designed to accommodate different needs within your workforce.· All vehicles carry videotapes and illustrative material and are designed to accommodate up to sixteen girls working in pairs at eight work stations.· Buildings designed to accommodate families as independent units were more individual and less institutionalized.

► expand

· First, you must expand your psyche to accommodate the bigger and better.· The money was desperately needed to expand the system to accommodate an ever-increasing population.· These reservoirs behave as imperfectly elastic containers, expanding and contracting to accommodate fluxes of melt.· They could not expand enough to accommodate all who chose them.

► try

· Why not, therefore, consider trying to accommodate that feature?· Our park and land managers are trying to accommodate these reductions with the least impact on visitors.· Now, steps are being taken to try to accommodate everyone.· Naturally, I certainly tried to accommodate their wishes, but the final decision was mine to make.· Jackson has tried to accommodate him by adding an offensive twist in which Rodman plays in the low post.