Difference between Fit and Accommodate

What is the difference between Fit and Accommodate?

Fit as a verb is of an object, to be of the right size and shape so as to match another object. while Accommodate as a verb is to render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.

Fit

Part of speech: verb

Definition: Of an object, to be of the right size and shape so as to match another object. Of clothing, to be of the right size and cut. To tailor; to change to the appropriate size. To be fitting; to suit. To suffer a fit.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: in good shape suitable good looking, fanciable, attractive, beautiful

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The degree to which something fits something else. (Advertising) how well a particular commercial execution captures the character or values of a brand. A section of a poem or ballad, from the sense of fitted to length. A seizure or convulsion. A sudden and vigorous appearance of a symptom over a short period of time. A sudden outburst of emotion. A sudden burst (of an activity).

Example sentence: Dr. Seuss said, 'No one can be you-er than you,' and Oscar Wilde said, 'Be yourself because everyone else is taken.' So I just try to continue to be who I am and don't change that. And I'm a little chameleon, so I can fit in wherever I am.

Accommodate

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. - John Tillotson

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.(intransitive) (rare) To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted. - Boyle

Example sentence: Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

We hope you now know whether to use Fit or Accommodate in your sentence.

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