Read vs Accept - What's the Difference?

Accept

Read

Definitions

Definition as Noun
Definition as Noun
  • something that is read
Definition as Verb
  • consider or hold as true
  • react favorably to; consider right and proper
  • receive (a report) officially, as from a committee
  • be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal
  • admit into a group or community
  • take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
  • give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to
  • tolerate or accommodate oneself to
  • receive willingly something given or offered
  • be designed to hold or take
  • make use of or accept for some purpose
Definition as Verb
  • interpret something that is written or printed
  • look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed
  • interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior
  • audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role
  • to hear and understand
  • be a student of a certain subject
  • indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
  • have or contain a certain wording or form
  • obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources
  • interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression
  • make sense of a language

Examples

  • "I cannot accept the dogma of this church"; "accept an argument"
  • "People did not accept atonal music at that time"; "We accept the idea of universal health care"
  • "The cow accepted the bull"
  • "accept students for graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member"
  • "I'll accept the charges"; "She agreed to bear the responsibility"
  • "I cannot accept your invitation"; "I go for this resolution"
  • "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies"
  • "The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter"; "I won't have this dog in my house!"; "Please accept my present"
  • "This surface will not take the dye"
  • "take a risk"; "take an opportunity"
  • "the article was a very good read"
  • "read the advertisement"; "Have you read Salman Rushdie?"
  • "The King will read the proclamation at noon"
  • "She read the sky and predicted rain"; "I can't read his strange behavior"; "The fortune teller read his fate in the crystal ball"
  • "He is auditioning for `Julius Caesar' at Stratford this year"
  • "I read you loud and clear!"
  • "She is reading for the bar exam"
  • "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'"
  • "The passage reads as follows"; "What does the law say?"
  • "This dictionary can be read by the computer"
  • "I read this address as a satire"; "How should I take this message?"
  • "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?"

Parts of Speech

Verb
Noun, Verb