accept

accept (http://definr.com/accept)

     v 1: consider or hold as true; "I cannot accept the dogma of this
          church"; "accept an argument" [ant: reject]
     2: receive willingly something given or offered; "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"
        [syn: take, have] [ant: refuse]
     3: give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to: "I
        cannot accept your invitation"; "I go for this resolution"
        [syn: consent, go for] [ant: refuse]
     4: react favorably to; consider right and proper; "People did
        not accept atonal music at that time"; "We accept the idea
        of universal health care"
     5: admit into a group or community; "accept students for
        graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to
        admit a new member" [syn: admit, take, take on]
     6: take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another
        person; "I'll accept the charges"; "She agreed to bear the
        responsibility" [syn: bear, take over, assume]
     7: tolerate or accommodate oneself to; "I shall have to accept
        these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the
        insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's
        little idiosyncracies" [syn: live with, swallow]
     8: be designed to hold or take; "This surface will not take the
        dye" [syn: take]
     9: of a deliberative body: receive (a report) officially, as
        from a committee
     10: make use of or accept for some purpose; "take a risk"; "take
         an opportunity" [syn: take]
     11: be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated
         mammal; "The cow accepted the bull"