accord
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (countable, perfumery) A distinctive mixture of fragrances or the odor thereof.Examples: "Oriental fragrances often incorporate an accord referred to as amber. It is a perfumery accord using vanilla, olibanum, balsamic resins, and citrus to varying degrees."; "Fougères are built on an accord between lavender and coumarin, with every conceivable variation and elaboration."; "Accord is the perfumer's word for a perfume formulation that can be incorporated into any perfume calling for a particular note."countable
2. (law) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.Examples: "Accord is a satisfaction agreed upon between the party injuring and the party injured ; which , when performed , is a bar of all actions upon this account"countableuncountable
3. (international law) An international agreement.Examples: "The Geneva Accord of 1954 ended the French-Indochinese War."Synonyms: treatycountableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.Examples: "[H]er hands accorded the Lutes muſicke to the voice; […]"transitive
2. (transitive) To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.Examples: "But Satyrane forth ſtepping, did them ſtay / And with faire treaty pacifide their yre; / Then when they were accorded from the fray, […]"; "All which Particulars (with many more of the like Nature) being confeſſedly knotty and difficult, can never be accorded, but by a competent Stock of critical Learning; […]"transitive
3. (intransitive) To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant.Examples: "For things are often ſpoke, and ſeldome meant, / But that my heart accordeth with my tongue, […]"; "Thy actions to thy words accord, thy words / To thy large heart give utterance due, thy heart / Conteins of good, wiſe, juſt, the perfect ſhape."; "Let knowledge grow from more to more, / But more of reverence in us dwell; / That mind and soul, according well, / May make one music as before, / But vaster."Synonyms: sit, agreeintransitive
4. (intransitive) To agree in pitch and tone.intransitive
5. (transitive, law) To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.Examples: "And, when the blinding tears had fallen, I saw That column, and those corpses, and the moon, And felt the poisonous tooth of hunger gnaw My vitals, I rejoiced, as if the boon Of senseless death would be accorded soon;— […]"; "In respect of the protection of industrial property,[…]a refugee shall be accorded in the country in which he has his habitual residence the same protection as is accorded to nationals of that country."; "Yes, the tide will surely turn, and meanwhile may one who is proud to call himself a partisan, invite whomever may feel disposed to bid the "T14s" adieux, to pause before giving them valediction and accord to them the respect that is assuredly their due."Synonyms: rendertransitive
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To give consent.intransitiveobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary