(v. t.) To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.
(v. t.) To receive with favor; to approve.
(v. t.) To receive or admit and agree to; to assent to; as, I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.
(v. t.) To take by the mind; to understand; as, How are these words to be accepted?
(v. t.) To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange.
(v. t.) In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; as, to accept the report of a committee. [This makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.]
(a.) Accepted.
Example Sentences:
(1) The generally accepted hypothesis is a coronary spasm but a direct cardiotoxicity of 5-FU cannot be.
(2) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
(3) Theresa May signals support for UK-EU membership deal Read more Faull’s fix, largely accepted by Britain, also ties the hands of national governments.
(4) Acceptance of less than ideal donors is ill-advised even though rejection of such donors conflicts with the current shortage of organs.
(5) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
(6) Socially acceptable urinary control was achieved in 90 per cent of the 139 patients with active devices in place.
(7) The aim of the present study was to bring forward data of acceptance of dental treatment for 3-16-yr-old children in a population with good dental health and annual dental care, and to evaluate the influence on acceptance of age, sex, residential area, and previous experience and present need of dental treatment.
(8) Reasons for non-acceptance do not indicate any major difficulties in the employment of such staff in general practice, at least as far as the patients are concerned.
(9) Such a science puts men in a couple of scientific laws and suppresses the moment of active doing (accepting or refusing) as a sufficient preassumption of reality.
(10) The mothers of 87 male and female adolescents accepted at a counseling agency described their offspring by completing the Institute of Juvenile Research Behavior Checklist.
(11) This study suggests that the BD VACUTAINER agar slant is an acceptable alternative to the Septi-Chek system for routine blood cultures.
(12) The results indicate that the legislated increase in the age of eligibility for full Social Security benefits beginning in the 21st century will have relatively small effects on the ages of retirement and benefit acceptance.
(13) Urologic evaluation of all patients with congenital scoliosis is recommended; however, diagnostic ultrasonographic evaluations of the urinary tract have proven to be an acceptable alternative as an initial screening modality.
(14) Chris Pavlou, former vice chairman of Laiki, told Channel 4 news that Anastasiades was given little option by the troika but to accept the draconian terms, which force savers to take a hit for the first time in the fifth bailout of a eurozone country.
(15) The correlations between the objective risk estimates and the subjective risk estimates were low overall (r = 0.089, p = 0.08); for women rejecting (r = 0.024, p = 0.44) or accepting (r = 0.082, p = 0.12) amniocentesis.
(16) But employers who have followed a fair procedure may have the right to discipline or finally dismiss any smoker who refuses to accept the new rules.
(17) The continence achieved in this case seems to be in contradiction to some of the accepted concepts of the mechanisms of continence.
(18) The feedback I have had reveals how accepting people are of different cultures and religions.
(19) If no other indication to operate occurs, we accept a conservative treatment of the humeral fracture with radial palsy.
(20) Statistical diagnostic tests are used for the final evaluation of the method acceptability, specifically in deciding whether or not the systematic error indicated requires a root source search for its removal or is simply a calibration constant of the method.
Nonacceptance
Definition:
(n.) A neglect or refusal to accept.
Example Sentences:
(1) Persistent disease after radiotherapy was a serious problem in advanced stages, especially in view of nonacceptance of salvage surgery by a significant proportion of patients.
(2) Th nonacceptability was of greater significance, therefore, than the metabolic effects in these trials.
(3) During clinicalontgenetic analysis concerning particular studied cases, 3 models of nonfunctional adaptation were distinguished: maladjustment of aggressive type prevailing among the children with permanent physical handicap coming of families characteristic for socially nonaccepted standard of behaviour; maladjustment of neurotic type prevailing among the children coming of compliant families whose adult members manifest neurotic vegetative reactions in difficult situations.
(4) The instrument contained two identical sets of 45 items, each one describing a socially nonacceptable behavior.
(5) They did not undertake any statistical analysis, but their reanalysis resulted in a widespread nonacceptance of the association reported by the DEU.
(6) Study I examined the relationships between the child's percent syllables stuttered and the parents' speech rates and percentages of nonaccepting statements, interruptions, questions, nonaccepting questions, and talk time.
(7) The survey instrument was designed to measure responses to the following attitudinal variables: acceptance and nonacceptance of a CML program; importance to patient care, education, and research; influence on information-seeking patterns of health care professionals; ethical issues; CML extension services; and costs.
(8) In the formycin-carrying tRNA, the amino acid bound to the nonaccepting OH seems to be inaccessible to the enzymatic groups responsible for hydrolysis.
(9) Results indicate that acceptance or nonacceptance into the clinic system were unrelated to social class or diagnosis, although these factors did influence referrals to specific clinic resources.
(10) The data can be rationalized assuming that hydrolysis takes place only if the amino acid is bound to the nonaccepting OH and hence is not positioned at the amino acid binding site upon formation of the complex between aminoacyl-tRNA and aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase.
(11) AA (alcohol accepting) and ANA (alcohol nonaccepting) rats, animals bred selectively for differential ethanol preference, showed large differences in operant responding for ethanol.
(12) Sometimes the patient can adapt to a new role but the family cannot; denial or nonacceptance on the part of a spouse or family can constitute a tremendous adaptational complication.
(13) Unless nursing service provides the structure for enhancing role development, frustration, nonacceptance, and even early termination of a qualified clinical nurse specialist may result.
(14) The accepted group had 70 per cent skeletal malrelationships (Class II and Class III), while the nonaccepted group presented with 32 per cent skeletal discrepancies.
(15) We thus assessed the extent to which procedure nonacceptance or noncompletion limited accomplishment of detection procedures offered as components of routine health care.
(16) Nonacceptance of prescribed oral medications among young children hinders medical treatment.
(17) A comparative study of the acceptance and nonacceptance for the selected sociodemographic and family planning variables is analysed.
(18) We attempted to clarify the questions as to which variables were important for the acceptance or nonacceptance of a psychotherapy offer to the patients of our department.
(19) Nonacceptance by the elderly was not a significant factor.
(20) Barriers to successful implementation are discussed, including liability concerns or lack of confidence among team members, nonacceptance of expanded roles by other professionals, and difficulties with scheduling, equipment maintenance, and risk assignment.