(n.) The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to.
(n.) Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
(n.) Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accommodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn.
(n.) An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement.
(n.) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
(n.) A loan of money.
(n.) An accommodation bill or note.
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.
Postmaster
Definition:
(n.) One who has charge of a station for the accommodation of travelers; one who supplies post horses.
(n.) One who has charge of a post office, and the distribution and forwarding of mails.
Example Sentences:
(1) Accordingly a number of valentines, which had been sent this year to country postmasters, at a distance from the place where they were written, with a request that they might be posted at those remote offices, have been sent to the Dead-letter office , and thence to the parties for whom they were destined, accompanied with a statement showing where the valentines were written, and the means that had been taken to elude detection.
(2) Sub Postmaster, Mowden Park Post Office, Darlington.
(3) In 1952, after discovering the interception of his mail, Hilton complained to his local postmaster.
(4) Dense crowds of spectators lined the route taken by the procession, which was witnessed from the Grand Stand at the Fifth Avenue Hotel by President Cleveland; Mr. Bayard, Secretary of State; Mr. Whitney, Secretary of the Navy; Mr. Vilas, Postmaster General; Mr. Lamar, Secretary of the Interior; General Sheridan, Commander in Chief of the United States army; M. Bartholdi, M. de Lesseps, Admiral Juarez, and the other French guests, as well as by other distinguished persons.
(5) The postmaster general, in response to a question in parliament about the future of broadcasting in April 1922, responded that “it would be impossible to have a large number of firms broadcasting.
(6) Post Office Ltd has to bridge a gap of around £37m in its crown network (the post offices owned and run by Post Office Ltd rather than by the independent sub-postmasters) and to do this it has embarked on a further cost-cutting exercise.
(7) Many people would argue that post offices are ethical to some degree, in that they are very much at the heart of local communities, and the accounts provide income for sub-postmasters.
(8) Sub-postmasters in the 11,500 post office branches are having a horrible time – their income has dropped by up to a third in the last five years.
(9) 7.59am BST George Thomson , general secretary of the National Federation of Sub-Postmasters, has also heavily criticised the plan: I am extremely disappointed and concerned that the Government is pressing ahead with a plan that will undoubtedly jeopardise the future of thousands of post offices.
(10) However, the National Federation of Sub-Postmasters (NFSP) has previously called for a halt in the sale until safeguards are put in place to protect post offices.
(11) Postmasters are now prohibited from aiding any attempt to conceal from those to whom letters are addressed the knowledge of the place where they originate; which knowledge is, under ordinary circumstances, obtainable from the post-mark.
(12) That said, post offices are very much at the heart of local communities, and a spokesman says the accounts will help generate increased income to sub-postmasters, thereby supporting the financial future of branches across the country.
(13) "This is an area of outstanding natural beauty, so I can't see how they're getting away with it," says Compton Martin's sub-postmaster, Ray Stewart, who runs a post office that is almost surreally tiny.