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Meaning Of Accord

  1. v. t.
    Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.
  2. v. t.
    Harmony of sounds; agreement in pitch and tone; concord; as, the accord of tones.
  3. v. t.
    Agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting.
  4. v. t.
    Voluntary or spontaneous motion or impulse to act; -- preceded by own; as, of one's own accord.
  5. v. t.
    An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit.
  6. v. t.
    To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust; -- followed by to.
  7. v. t.
    To bring to an agreement, as persons; to reconcile; to settle, adjust, harmonize, or compose, as things; as, to accord suits or controversies.
  8. v. t.
    To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise.
  9. v. i.
    To agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; -- followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks.
  10. v. i.
    To agree in pitch and tone.



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