What's the difference between accept and proffer?

Accept


Definition:

  • (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.

Proffer


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of; as, to proffer a gift; to proffer services; to proffer friendship.
  • (v. t.) To essay or attempt of one's own accord; to undertake, or propose to undertake.
  • (n.) An offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender; as, proffers of peace or friendship.
  • (n.) Essay; attempt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although declining in popularity, this treatment modality proffers survival advantage for appropriately chosen individuals.
  • (2) A system of ordering the relative toxicity of these (and other) drugs is proffered using the exposure-case fatality rate (ECFR) as a crude measure of clinical toxicity (while delineating its shortcomings).
  • (3) The reason for this were cursorily highlighted and suggestions for speedier trials proffered.
  • (4) This report deals with the proffered reasons why these men did not take the screening examination.
  • (5) For Cromitie, he proffered $250,000: a staggering sum.
  • (6) We also demonstrated immunocytochemical evidence of the persistence of adult slow myosin in denervated mature human skeletal muscle despite the reputed necessity of innervation for maintenance of expression of this myosin isoform proffered by others.
  • (7) Q has upped his gadget game Facebook Twitter Pinterest The brooding and sombre Skyfall scored a few points for post-modern playfulness via its introductory scene for the new Q, in which Ben Whishaw might as well have offered Bond a couple of Netflix vouchers and a year’s subscription to Cosmopolitan for all the wow factor his proffered “gadgets” achieved.
  • (8) Since the age-related recommendations of the algorithm are controversial, a discussion of renal cell carcinoma and intrinsic glomerular diseases is proffered.
  • (9) In recent years, the maharishi, who broadcasts on a private satellite channel from a converted monastery in Vlodrop, in Holland, has proffered opinions on everything from crime to the Israel-Palestine conflict to how countries can best foster military defence.
  • (10) The Labour mayoral candidate proffered an olive branch as he paid tribute to the way Jewish people have shaped London .
  • (11) Many sources, including the American Medical Association, have proffered radical changes, but most of these changes will cost more than physicians and hospitals can afford.
  • (12) In the circumstances, you do have to marvel at that mulishly self-regarding "for any offence caused" – the classic non-apology apology typically proffered by those with a belief in their own absolute probity, which is as unshakeable as it is misplaced.
  • (13) Back at the bar of the Imperial hotel, he made himself busy introducing Tory's trousers to various Conservative party grandees, insisting they shake a proffered leg by way of greeting.
  • (14) If the British X Factor carries on without Cowell and Cole, we'll be left with Dannii Minogue trying not to look utterly insulted that the US invitation was never proffered to her, Louis Walsh looking as happy as ever, unaware that anything is actually going on, and who?
  • (15) It accuses Roberts’s lawyers of including the names of prominent individuals, which it says were irrelevant to the lawsuit, in an attempt to generate publicity with a motion that “simply proffers various salacious allegations as quotable tabloid fodder”.
  • (16) The guideline begins with a list of problems, verified via an adversarial review, as to why the child(ren) entered foster care or is at risk of doing so, followed by the establishment of the relevance of proffered services to those problems, followed by documentation of a sustained effort to facilitate the use of those services.
  • (17) The role of the psychiatrist is to proffer a relevant opinion while nevertheless realizing that the inexact nature of the science limits the use such an opinion may have.
  • (18) If this government has its way, anyone nearing working age today has 60 years of work to look forward to at which stage, if they have any decency, they’ll die to save the country expense and it takes the likes of Owen Jones to ask why and proffer an alternative.
  • (19) Eckert’s summary also criticised attempts by England and Australia to curry favour with Fifa executive committee members but failed to mention the Spain and Portugal bid at all because they proffered little information.
  • (20) That proffered need is purely speculative and does not satisfy the requirements of the law.” The case stemmed from a grand jury decision not to indict Pantaleo, who was seen on video placing Garner, 43, in a chokehold as Garner gasped: “I can’t breathe.” Garner died of injuries sustained during the 17 June arrest.