(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.
Shelter
Definition:
(n.) That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance; a protection; a screen.
(n.) One who protects; a guardian; a defender.
(n.) The state of being covered and protected; protection; security.
(v. t.) To be a shelter for; to provide with a shelter; to cover from injury or annoyance; to shield; to protect.
(v. t.) To screen or cover from notice; to disguise.
(v. t.) To betake to cover, or to a safe place; -- used reflexively.
(v. i.) To take shelter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Shelter’s analysis of MoJ figures highlights high-risk hotspots across the country where families are particularly at risk of losing their homes, with households in Newham, east London, most exposed to the possibility of eviction or repossession, with one in every 36 homes threatened.
(2) • young clownfish will lose their ability to "smell" the anemone species that they shelter in.
(3) Housing charity Shelter puts the shortage of affordable housing in England at between 40,000 and 60,000 homes a year.
(4) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Syrians queue for water at a shelter in Hirjalleh, a rural area near the capital Damascus.
(6) The proposed new law gives victims of violence access to redress and protection, including restraining orders, and it requires local governments to set up more shelters.
(7) Others seek shelter wherever they can – on rented farmland, and in empty houses and disused garages.
(8) Around a third of Gaza's 1.8 million people have been displaced, many now living in United Nations shelters.
(9) Millions have been driven out of their homes, seeking shelter in neighbouring countries and in safer parts of their homeland.
(10) The UK donated £114m which funded shelter for 1.3 million people and clean water for 2.5 million.
(11) The idea that these problems exist on the other side of the world, and that we Australians can ignore them by sheltering comfortably in our own sequestered corner of the globe, is a fool’s delusion.” Brandis sought to reach out to Australian Muslims, saying the threat came “principally from a small number of people among us who try to justify criminal acts by perverting the meaning of Islam”.
(12) The banalities of a news conference take on a strange significance when the men who summon the world's cameras are members of a feared insurgent group that banned television when they ruled Afghanistan and sheltered al-Qaida.
(13) For services to Elderly People through the Minnie Bennett Sheltered Accommodation Home for the Elderly in Greenwich South East London.
(14) An unwanted pregnancy is one more nightmare for a displaced woman; campaigners argue that contraception and access to safe abortion should be treated with the same urgency as water, food and shelter.
(15) She is just one of many people who have contacted Shelter about cuts to SMI payments.
(16) After leaving the RCA, the pair continued to work on the idea of shelters that could be dropped into disaster zones or areas of military conflict and swiftly assembled.
(17) The discrimination in the policy of successive South African governments towards African workers is demonstrated by the so-called 'civilised labour policy' under which sheltered, unskilled government jobs are found for those white workers who cannot make the grade in industry, at wages which far exceed the earnings of the average African employee in industry.
(18) The quality of the re-insertion also depends on the care possibilities available to the patient: sectorial follow-up, job-aid centre, sheltered workshops, associative apartments, leisure.
(19) Nico Stevens from Help Refugees said at least 150 people had so far lost their shelters, but many of those had remained in the camp, sleeping in tents or communal buildings.
(20) The only way for the government to turn this crisis around is to urgently invest in genuinely affordable homes Campbell Robb, Shelter The Land Registry – whose data is viewed by many as the most comprehensive and accurate – said the typical price of a home reached £181,619 in June.