accept

1. Consider or hold as true (synset 200688348)
   "I cannot accept the dogma of this church"; "accept an argument"
   is a type of: evaluate, judge, pass judgment - form a critical opinion of
   subtypes:

   • acknowledge, know, recognise, recognize - accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority
   • adopt, embrace, espouse, sweep up - take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
   • believe - accept as true; take to be true
   • receive - accept as true or valid
   • approbate - accept (documents) as valid
   • reconcile, resign, submit - accept as inevitable
   • acknowledge - accept as legally binding and valid
   • take a bow - acknowledge praise or accept credit
   • abide by, honor, honour, observe, respect - show respect towards
   verb group: accept - react favorably to; consider right and proper
2. Receive willingly something given or offered (synset 202240906)
   "The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter"; "I won't have this dog in my house!"; "Please accept my present"
   is a type of: acquire, get - come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
   subtypes:

   • accept, admit, take, take on - admit into a group or community
   • welcome - accept gladly
   • honor, honour - accept as pay
   • adopt, borrow, take over, take up - take up and practice as one's own
   same as: have, take
   verb group: have, receive - get something; come into possession of
3. Give an affirmative reply to;
   Respond favorably to (synset 200799359)
   "I cannot accept your invitation"; "I go for this resolution"
   is a type of: react, respond - show a response or a reaction to something
   subtypes:

   • give - consent to engage in sexual intercourse with a man
   • agree - consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something
   • settle - accept despite lack of complete satisfaction
   • contract in - consent in writing to pay money to a trade union for political use
   • allow, countenance, let, permit - consent to, give permission
   • buckle under, give in, knuckle under, succumb, yield - consent reluctantly
   • take in charge, undertake - accept as a charge
   same as: consent, go for
4. React favorably to;
   Consider right and proper (synset 200721155)
   "People did not accept atonal music at that time"; "We accept the idea of universal health care"
   is a type of: react, respond - show a response or a reaction to something
   verb group: accept - consider or hold as true
5. Admit into a group or community (synset 202241406)
   "accept students for graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member"
   is a type of: accept, have, take - receive willingly something given or offered
   subtypes: profess - receive into a religious order or congregation
   same as: admit, take, take on
   verb group: admit, include, let in - allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of
6. Take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person (synset 202306786)
   "I'll accept the charges"; "She agreed to bear the responsibility"
   is a type of: take - take into one's possession
   subtypes: carry the can, face the music - accept the unpleasant consequences of one's actions
   same as: assume, bear, take over
7. Tolerate or accommodate oneself to (synset 200670723)
   "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies"
   is a type of: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate - put up with something or somebody unpleasant
   same as: live with, swallow
8. Be designed to hold or take (synset 202747421)
   "This surface will not take the dye"
   is a type of: be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
   same as: take
9. Receive (a report) officially, as from a committee (synset 202215404)
   is a type of: have, receive - get something; come into possession of
10. Make use of or accept for some purpose (synset 202214718)
    "take a risk"; "take an opportunity"
    subtypes: co-opt - take or assume for one's own use
    same as: take
11. Be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal (synset 200720413)
    "The cow accepted the bull"
    is a type of: react, respond - show a response or a reaction to something

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