What's the difference between accommodate and compensate?

Accommodate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.
  • (v. t.) To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.
  • (v. t.) To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.
  • (v. i.) To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted.
  • (a.) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The high transition enthalpy for kerasin is ascribed to a lesser accommodation of gauche conformers in the hydrocarbon chains just below the transition temperature.
  • (2) A 66-year-old woman with acute idiopathic polyneuritis (Landry-Guillain-Barré [LGB] syndrome) had normal extraocular movements, but her pupils did not react to light or accommodation.
  • (3) The significance of the differences in these two patterns of actin is discussed in terms of differences in the accommodative ability and static lens shape in these two animals.
  • (4) The results are discussed in terms of a two-site model in which separate, but interacting, regions exist on the enzyme to accommodate the adenosine and nicotinamide moieties of NAD, and a single-site model in which the adenosine part of the molecule is bound preferentially and this interacts with the nicotinamide fraction.
  • (5) The so-called apparent accommodation has been measured in patients implanted with anterior chamber, iris support and posterior chamber IOLs.
  • (6) In the anatomy laboratory we looked for an alternative approach to the glenohumeral joint which would accommodate these difficulties.
  • (7) The government’s increase in the discount offered to tenants has prompted a massive increase in purchases of local authority accommodation.
  • (8) The Hindu belief system accommodates this by prescribing use in such a way that this effect becomes beneficial.
  • (9) The 61-year-old paid to transport prize-winning children to the fair in St Thomas and funded their accommodation.
  • (10) The rationale for this assumption seems logical because using all of the available accommodation is not sustainable without discomfort.
  • (11) It is clear that some degree of thyroid inhibition can be accommodated within the bounds of the normal feedback mechanism without the induction of either hyperplasia or neoplasia.
  • (12) This will not be helped by the fact that the AU still accommodates the likes of Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasago, who was until January its chair despite having been accused of serious human rights abuses.
  • (13) The commission heard AWH charged luxury accommodation in Queensland, limousine rides and Liberal party donations to Sydney Water.
  • (14) These findings supported the idea that the ferrochelatase active site could accommodate alkyl groups larger than methyl only if they were present on the nitrogens of the A or B pyrrole rings of the N-alkylPP.
  • (15) A Tory planning minister has admitted that the coalition's new wave of garden cities would not have to contain a single affordable home, despite Nick Clegg's claims that they would offer low-cost accommodation and help solve the UK's housing crisis.
  • (16) After a short review of the literature the reduction of earning capacity on the common labour market in cases of decrease of fusion, convergence and accommodation caused by head injuries is discussed and percentual values are proposed.
  • (17) During each session, measurements were made of either tonic accommodation or tonic vergence 30 s before stimulus onset and at 0.5, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 14 min after stimulus offset.
  • (18) To investigate the ability of a protein to accommodate potentially destabilizing amino acid substitutions, and also to investigate the steric requirements for catalysis, proline was substituted at different sites within the long alpha-helix that connects the amino-terminal and carboxyl-terminal domains of T4 lysozyme.
  • (19) Accommodation measurements of nine young, emmetropic subjects were obtained with an infrared optometer while they viewed superimposed horizontal and vertical square-wave gratings at various dioptric separations.
  • (20) The hydrolysis of a series of n-alkyl esters of 4-nitrobenzoic acid, and of isopropyl 4-nitrobenzoate, 4'-nitrophenyl 4-nitrobenzoate, and 4-nitrobenzoyl 1-monoglycerol, catalyzed by human milk lipase in the absence and presence of cholate stimulation, has been measured at pH 7.3, 37.5 degrees C. It has been shown that the enzyme possesses a specific alkyl binding site which is hydrophobic in nature and wide enough to accommodate two fatty acid chains lying side by side or a phenyl ring lying flat.

Compensate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.
  • (v. t.) To be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for.
  • (v. i.) To make amends; to supply an equivalent; -- followed by for; as, nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The acute effect of alcohol manifested itself by decreasing mitochondrial respiration, compensated by increased glycolytic activity of the myocardium so that myocardial energy phosphate concentration remained unchanged.
  • (2) Results suggest that these resins should be used with some method to compensate for the shrinkage, when used as index material.
  • (3) Medical prevention and technique and then compensation for these occupational nuisances are then described.
  • (4) The hemorrhagic syndrome (HS) was identified in 16% of patients with chronic active hepatitis, in 26% with compensated and in 76% with decompensated LC.
  • (5) On 18 March 1996, the force agreed, without admitting any wrongdoing by any officer, to pay Tomkins £40,000 compensation, and £70,000 for his legal costs.
  • (6) level was increased in 13 of 19 measurements made in this group, state named "compensated hypothyroidism" according to Patel and Burger.
  • (7) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
  • (8) The solution to these problems would seem either to reduce the time spent in rectangular wires or to change to a bracket with reduced torque, together with appropriate second order compensations in the archwire or the bracket.
  • (9) A compensator connected to the section consisting of the pump-main line-operating member and including a pneumatic resistance and a flaxid non-elastic container enables it in combination with the feedback to maintain through the volumetric displacement of the gas, or changing the pump diaphragm position, the stability of the gas volume in the pneumatic transmission element of the assisted circulation apparatus.
  • (10) Sympathochromaffin catecholamines are not normally critical but compensate and become critical when glucagon is deficient.
  • (11) The stretch reflex in man has a direct role in compensating for small disturbances during motor tasks.
  • (12) The ideal prophylaxis should compensate for the undesired effects of an operation or injury on the coagulation system, without subjecting the patient to the danger of elevated tendency to bleed.
  • (13) Advocates would point to the influence Giggs maintains in the United midfield – developing a more creative game from a central role to compensate for the loss of his once blistering pace.
  • (14) A preliminary "profile" of the patient with low back pain who would likely benefit from manual therapy included acute symptom onset with less than a 1-month duration of symptoms, central or paravertebral pain distribution, no previous exposure to spinal manipulation, and no pending litigation or workers' compensation.
  • (15) The venture capitalist argued in his report, commissioned by the Downing Street policy guru Steve Hilton, in favour of "compensated no fault-dismissal" for small businesses.
  • (16) The government also faced considerable international political pressure, with the United Nations' special rapporteur on torture, Juan Méndez, calling publicly on the government to "provide full redress to the victims, including fair and adequate compensation", and writing privately to David Cameron, along with two former special rapporteurs, to warn that the government's position was undermining its moral authority across the world.
  • (17) Taxpayers will pick up an immediate £40m bill for compensating the four shortlisted companies that bid for the west coast franchise.
  • (18) Adreno-cortical compensation of the concentration of the hormone did not occur in the post-castration period.
  • (19) The principle of antagonistic compensation was presented by RIESENFELD in 1966 to explain the relative shortening and broadening of hypofunctional bones.
  • (20) But he won’t call.” Allardyce is also cynical about an offer from Swansea to compensate around 300 Sunderland fans who had booked trips to Wales before the date change.