What's the difference between accord and attune?

Accord


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.
  • (v. t.) Harmony of sounds; agreement in pitch and tone; concord; as, the accord of tones.
  • (v. t.) Agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting.
  • (v. t.) Voluntary or spontaneous motion or impulse to act; -- preceded by own; as, of one's own accord.
  • (v. t.) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit.
  • (v. t.) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust; -- followed by to.
  • (v. t.) To bring to an agreement, as persons; to reconcile; to settle, adjust, harmonize, or compose, as things; as, to accord suits or controversies.
  • (v. t.) To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise.
  • (v. i.) To agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; -- followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks.
  • (v. i.) To agree in pitch and tone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
  • (2) ), nosological frontiers are still unclear and accordingly justify a comparative serological study of M.M., W.M., and B.M.G.
  • (3) It was the purpose of the present study to describe the normal pattern of the growth sites of the nasal septum according to age and sex by histological and microradiographical examination of human autopsy material.
  • (4) 53 outpatients with HIV-infection classified according to the Walter Reed staging system (WR1 to WR6).
  • (5) A statement from the company said it had assigned all its assets for the benefit of creditors, in accordance with Massachusetts' law.
  • (6) The patients were classified into two groups according to the presence (n = 166) or absence (n = 176) of documented episodes of atrial fibrillation preoperatively.
  • (7) According to the finite element analysis, the design bases of fixed restorations applied in the teeth accompanied with the absorption of the alveolar bone were preferred.
  • (8) According to some reports as many as 30 people were killed in the explosion, although that figure could not be independently confirmed.
  • (9) More than £26bn was wiped off the value of Britain's top companieson Tuesday, according to FTSE Group.
  • (10) A 45-year-old mother of four, named as Hediye Sen, was killed during clashes in Cizre, while a 70-year-old died of a heart attack during fighting in Silopi, according to hospital sources.
  • (11) According to the national bank, four Russian banks were operating in Crimea as of the end of April, but only one of them, Rossiisky National Commercial Bank, was widely represented, with 116 branches in the region.
  • (12) The pathogenicity of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in atypical pneumonias can be considered confirmed according to the availabile literature; its importance for other inflammatory diseases of the respiratory tract, particularly for chronic bronchitis, is not yet sufficiently clear.
  • (13) Our results on humoral and cellular components of immunity in dependence of age, according to SENIEUR protocol admission criteria are presented.
  • (14) Accordingly, when bFGF, complexed to heparin, is treated with pepsin A, an aspartic protease with a broad specificity, only the Leu9-Pro10 peptide bond is cleaved generating the 146-amino acid form.
  • (15) We studied the effect of low-dose intrathecal morphine (0.00-0.20 mg) on pain relief and the incidence of side effects after cholecystectomy in 139 patients divided into eight groups according to intrathecal morphine dose: groups 1 (0.00 mg), 2 (0.04 mg), 3 (0.06 mg), 4 (0.08 mg), 5 (0.10 mg), 6 (0.12 mg), 7 (0.15 mg), and 8 (0.20 mg).
  • (16) The authors analyze the biomechanical effectiveness of pelvic osteotomy according to the Chiari method.
  • (17) And, according to a letter leaked to the BBC last week , he reckons he has found one: default-on.
  • (18) On the assumption of a distribution in properties of the suspension according to the theory of Bruggeman, the capacitance is calculated to have a value of about one half this.5.
  • (19) According to the experience of clinical trials the recommended ciprofloxacin dose varies between 100 and 500 mg b.i.d.
  • (20) According to the OFT, banks receive up to £3.5bn a year in unauthorised overdraft fees - nearly £10m a day.

Attune


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To tune or put in tune; to make melodious; to adjust, as one sound or musical instrument to another; as, to attune the voice to a harp.
  • (v. t.) To arrange fitly; to make accordant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It could be said that Brown's methods were not eccentric but merely attuned to the demands of Eighties and Nineties culture.
  • (2) The overall results of this pilot study indicate that nurses need to be more attuned to assessing fatigue as a side effect of BRM therapy.
  • (3) Maybe I'm more attuned to the sadness now; maybe I'm better with the weaker Ben Richards, the desperation that makes him enter the competition.
  • (4) If I'm attuned acutely to the presence of women in children's entertainment, that's partly a result of having two daughters.
  • (5) Whereas both groups were attuned to this ball flight information, only the experts were capable of picking up information from the early part of the opponent's actions.
  • (6) The occupational health nurse should be attuned to issues and research regarding prevention of CVD.
  • (7) Physical illness may give rise to feelings of hopelessness to which the physician must stay attuned; the patient may also use physical illness as a pretext for seeking help for deeper things that trouble him.
  • (8) Urologists attuned to the possible diagnosis of MS in patients who present with symptoms of voiding dysfunction can facilitate the proper diagnosis with a basic office evaluation.
  • (9) The structure of the teacher's utterances was not as closely attuned to the communicative levels of the children.
  • (10) On discovering that children harmed in relationships can heal through play with an attuned adult, I decided to train as a play therapist.
  • (11) Hobsbawm Macaulay received an unusual amount of press attention for a PR start-up, and was portrayed as a rather quirky high-minded experiment, but in fact the agency was attuned to where power increasingly lay in Britain, with the media, the expanding cultural and charitable industries, and the then rising New Labour establishment.
  • (12) Sharpeners, highly attuned to system differences and nuances, and always alert to distinctions, try hard to let nothing slip by them unnoticed.
  • (13) He knew all about unconscious bias, was attuned to issues of diversity and was passionate about changing middle management composition which he said was “too male, stale and pale”.
  • (14) PFS is a painful rheumatologic disorder that may be detected by the wary clinician attuned to the presence of seven or more tender points.
  • (15) The transactional model provides a novel guide for the psychiatric hospital treatment of children by improving the attunement between the child and his or her important interpersonal environment.
  • (16) It is suggested that a progressive movement or dialectic between the pre-verbal affect-attunement level and formalized interpretation may be optimal in analytic therapy.
  • (17) In addition, the quality of the social context of feeding has been shown to affect food acceptance and the extent to which children are attuned to cues of hunger and satiety in self-regulating food intake.
  • (18) Women seem particularly attuned to seeking out not partners but rehabilitation projects, though there are plenty of men who reprise the pillar of strength routine when they could do with support themselves.
  • (19) Intercarpal displacements are linked to one another and are based upon the mutual attuning of carpal bone geometry, joint contacts, and ligamentous interconnections.
  • (20) Since many of those exposed are unaware that they received DES, the health care profession must be attuned to the signs and symptoms predisposed by the exposure and be able to provide adequate follow-up and education concerning this medical problem.

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