What's the difference between accord and unity?

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.

Unity


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being one; oneness.
  • (n.) Concord; harmony; conjunction; agreement; uniformity; as, a unity of proofs; unity of doctrine.
  • (n.) Any definite quantity, or aggregate of quantities or magnitudes taken as one, or for which 1 is made to stand in calculation; thus, in a table of natural sines, the radius of the circle is regarded as unity.
  • (n.) In dramatic composition, one of the principles by which a uniform tenor of story and propriety of representation are preserved; conformity in a composition to these; in oratory, discourse, etc., the due subordination and reference of every part to the development of the leading idea or the eastablishment of the main proposition.
  • (n.) Such a combination of parts as to constitute a whole, or a kind of symmetry of style and character.
  • (n.) The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
  • (2) All reported studies have documented small 5 to 10 mm Hg decrements of blood pressure with dietary supplementation with these fatty acids and conversion of the ratio of polyunsaturated to saturated fatty acids toward unity.
  • (3) "It is really a time for cooperation and unity," he said, adding that recent events had shown the need for Iraqis – Sunni, Shia and Kurds – to work together.
  • (4) Like most anthems it’s intended to create unity in the face of adversity, coming from a time when America was a new country trying to forge its identity.
  • (5) The present results indicate that R will be quite close to unity and therefore the performance capability would theoretically be independent of body mass.
  • (6) He joined the Coldstream Guards, while Debo and her mother went to Berne to collect Unity, who had put a bullet through her brain but survived, severely damaged; they coped with Unity's resultant moodiness and incontinence through the first year of war.
  • (7) Limits are a relief, because they concentrate the drama and free the writer from the torture of choice, as Aristotle knew when he advised playwrights to preserve "the unities" by telling one story in one place over a single day.
  • (8) Generals who have mutinied have seized the capital of South Sudan's largest state, Jonglei, and its main oil-producing area, Unity State.
  • (9) Values of K' less than unity lead to negative selective interaction.
  • (10) The death of an adoptive parent resulted in relative risks of death in the adoptees that were close to unity for all causes, natural causes, and infections, 3.02 (0.72 to 12.8) for vascular causes, and 5.16 (1.20 to 22.2) for cancers.
  • (11) Yellow signs swing from lampposts urging citizens to “hold high the great banner of national unity”.
  • (12) The rationality of subdividing the tumours of this type into separate entries of different onconosological unities is discussed.
  • (13) I am not a Muslim but I see that the cover has been read as yet more provocation, even an undoing of the unity of the marches in Paris and other cities.
  • (14) In view of the fact that neurology and psychiatry in childhood and adolescence necessarily form a unity, the proportion of neurological diseases is analysed on the basis of the in-patients of five clinic years of a pediatric-neuropsychiatric university hospital.
  • (15) For each indicated educational--motivating unity parents have to be completely prepared for better and more complete than usual piling of facts and presenting in front of them unsolvable tasks and obligations.
  • (16) Coronary venous ligations were done at various levels and also thromboflebitis at various levels, in order to demonstrate the function of the venous drainage of the heart, as a "venous-unity" and with a great compensating capacity.
  • (17) "Let us arm ourselves with the weapon of knowledge and let us shield ourselves with unity and togetherness," Malala said.
  • (18) This the unity of the functional and morphological aspects can prove to be especially lucrative in the research of endocrinology.
  • (19) The intent is to move beyond the issue of issues and to discover some sense of unity.
  • (20) 2 February 2010: Papandreou makes TV appeal for unity over financial crisis Greece announces a wider austerity package, including a freeze on public sector pay and higher taxes for low and middle-income households.