accept

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To answer affirmatively: accept an invitation.
2. v. To agree to take (a duty or responsibility).
3. v. To receive (something offered), especially with gladness or approval: accepted a glass of water; accepted their contract.
4. v. To admit to a group, organization, or place: accepted me as a new member of the club.
5. v. To regard as proper, usual, or right: Such customs are widely accepted.
6. v. To regard as true; believe in: Scientists have accepted the new theory.
7. v. To understand as having a specific meaning.
8. v. To endure resignedly or patiently: accept one's fate.
9. v. To be able to hold (something applied or inserted): This wood will not accept oil paints.
10. v. To receive officially: accept the committee's report.
11. v. To consent to pay, as by a signed agreement.
12. v. Medicine To receive (a transplanted organ or tissue) without immunological rejection.
13. v. To receive something, especially with favor. Often used with of.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To take or receive (something offered); receive with approbation or favor: as, he made an offer which was accepted.
2. To take (what presents itself or what befalls one); accommodate one's self to: as, to accept the situation.
3. To listen favorably to; grant.
4. To receive or admit and agree to; accede or assent to: as, to accept a treaty, a proposal, an amendment, an excuse: often followed by of: as, I accept of the terms.
5. To receive in a particular sense; understand: as, how is this phrase to be accepted? In com., to acknowledge, by signature, as calling for payment, and thus to promise to pay: as, to accept a bill of exchange, that is, to acknowledge the obligation to pay it when due. See acceptance. In a deliberative body, to receive as a sufficient performance of the duty with which an officer or a committee has been charged; receive for further action: as, the report of the committee was accepted. Synonyms Take, etc. See receive.
6. Accepted.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
2. v. transitive To admit to a place or a group.
3. v. transitive To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
4. v. transitive To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
5. v. transitive To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
6. v. transitive To endure patiently.
7. v. transitive, law, business To agree to pay.
8. v. transitive To receive officially
9. v. intransitive To receive something willingly.
10. adj. obsolete Accepted.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); ; -- often followed by of.
2. v. To receive with favor; to approve.
3. v. To receive or admit and agree to; to assent to.
4. v. To take by the mind; to understand; as, How are these words to be accepted?
5. v. (Com.) To receive as obligatory and promise to pay.
6. v. In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed. [This makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.]
7. adj. obsolete Accepted.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
2. v. give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to
3. v. receive (a report) officially, as from a committee
4. v. make use of or accept for some purpose
5. v. admit into a group or community
6. v. receive willingly something given or offered
7. v. be designed to hold or take
8. v. consider or hold as true
9. v. tolerate or accommodate oneself to
10. v. react favorably to; consider right and proper
11. v. be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal