accommodate

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To do a favor or service for; oblige. See Synonyms at oblige.
2. v. To provide for; supply with.
3. v. To hold comfortably without crowding. See Synonyms at contain.
4. v. To make suitable; adapt. See Synonyms at adapt.
5. v. To allow for; consider: an economic proposal that accommodates the interests of senior citizens.
6. v. To settle; reconcile.
7. v. To adapt oneself; become adjusted: It is never easy to accommodate to social change.
8. v. Physiology To become adjusted, as the eye to focusing on objects at a distance.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To make suitable, correspondent, or consistent; fit; adapt: as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances; to accommodate the choice of subjects to the occasion; to accommodate a Latin word, in form or use, to English analogies.
2. To show fitness or agreement in; reconcile, as things which are at variance or which seem inconsistent; bring into harmony or concord: as, to accommodate prophecy to events.
3. To adjust; settle: as, to accommodate differences.
4. To supply or furnish; provide with certain conveniences; give accommodation to: as, my house can accommodate a large number of guests: followed by with when what is supplied is expressly mentioned: as, to accommodate a man with apartments; to accommodate a friend with money.
5. To suit; serve; convenience; oblige; do a kindness or favor to: as, he is always delighted to accommodate a friend.
6. Synonyms To suit, adapt, fit, conform, adjust, reconcile.
7. To furnish, supply, provide for.
8. To serve, oblige, assist, aid.
9. To be conformable; specifically, in physiology, to be in or come to adjustment. See accommodation, 4 .
10. Suitable; fit; adapted; accommodated.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.
2. v. transitive To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.
3. v. transitive To provide housing for; to furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.
4. v. transitive To do a favor or service for; to oblige;
5. v. transitive To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.
6. v. transitive To give consideration to; to allow for.
7. v. transitive To contain comfortably; to have space for.
8. v. intransitive, rare To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
9. adj. archaic Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. - John Tillotson

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform.
2. v. To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle
3. v. To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige.
4. v. To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc..
5. v. rare To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted.
6. adj. Archaic Suitable; fit; adapted.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. provide with something desired or needed
2. v. have room for; hold without crowding
3. v. be agreeable or acceptable to
4. v. provide housing for
5. v. make (one thing) compatible with (another)
6. v. make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
7. v. provide a service or favor for someone