Accord

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1. Verb

Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.

2. Verb

Harmony of sounds; agreement in pitch and tone; concord; as, the accord of tones.

3. Verb

Agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting.

4. Verb

Voluntary or spontaneous motion or impulse to act; -- preceded by own; as, of one's own accord.

5. Verb

An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit.

6. Verb

To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust; -- followed by to.

7. Verb

To bring to an agreement, as persons; to reconcile; to settle, adjust, harmonize, or compose, as things; as, to accord suits or controversies.

8. Verb

To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise.

9. Verb

To agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; -- followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks.

10. Verb

To agree in pitch and tone.

11. Noun

a written agreement between two states or sovereigns
Vocabulary classified under Law

12. Noun

sympathetic compatibility
Vocabulary classified under Environmental science

13. Noun

concurrence of opinion; "we are in accord with your proposal"
Vocabulary classified under Linguistics
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