Accept vs. Decline
Acceptverb
(transitive) To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
Acceptverb
(transitive) To admit to a place or a group.
Acceptverb
(transitive) To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
Acceptverb
(transitive) To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
Acceptverb
(transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
Acceptverb
(transitive) To endure patiently.
Acceptverb
To agree to pay.
Acceptverb
(transitive) To receive officially.
Acceptverb
(intransitive) To receive something willingly.
Acceptadjective
(obsolete) Accepted.
Acceptverb
To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; - often followed by of.
Acceptverb
To receive with favor; to approve.
Acceptverb
To receive or admit and agree to; to assent to; as, I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.
Acceptverb
To take by the mind; to understand; as, How are these words to be accepted?
Acceptverb
To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange.
Acceptverb
In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; as, to accept the report of a committee. [This makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.]
Acceptadjective
Accepted.
Acceptverb
consider or hold as true;
Acceptverb
receive willingly something given or offered;
Acceptverb
give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to;
Acceptverb
react favorably to; consider right and proper;
Acceptverb
admit into a group or community;
Acceptverb
take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person;
Acceptverb
tolerate or accommodate oneself to;
Acceptverb
be designed to hold or take;
Acceptverb
of a deliberative body: receive (a report) officially, as from a committee
Acceptverb
make use of or accept for some purpose;
Acceptverb
be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal;
Declinenoun
Downward movement, fall.en
Declinenoun
A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.en
Declinenoun
A weakening.en
Declinenoun
A reduction or diminution of activity.
Declinenoun
The act of declining or refusing something.
Declineverb
(intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
Declineverb
(intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
Declineverb
(transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
Declineverb
(transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
Declineverb
To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
Declineverb
(transitive) To refuse, forbear.
Declineverb
To inflect for case, number and sometimes gender.
Declineverb
(by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
Declineverb
To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play.
Declineverb
To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.
Declineverb
To tend or draw towards a close, decay, or extinction; to tend to a less perfect state; to become diminished or impaired; to fail; to sink; to diminish; to lessen; as, the day declines; virtue declines; religion declines; business declines.
Declineverb
To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that declines from sound morals.
Declineverb
To turn away; to shun; to refuse; - the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle.
Declineverb
To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
Declineverb
To cause to decrease or diminish.
Declineverb
To put or turn aside; to turn off or away from; to refuse to undertake or comply with; reject; to shun; to avoid; as, to decline an offer; to decline a contest; he declined any participation with them.
Declineverb
To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective.
Declineverb
To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
Declinenoun
A falling off; a tendency to a worse state; diminution or decay; deterioration; also, the period when a thing is tending toward extinction or a less perfect state; as, the decline of life; the decline of strength; the decline of virtue and religion.
Declinenoun
That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever.
Declinenoun
A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline.
Declinenoun
change toward something smaller or lower
Declinenoun
a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state
Declinenoun
a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current
Declinenoun
a downward slope or bend
Declineverb
grow worse;
Declineverb
refuse to accept;
Declineverb
show unwillingness towards;
Declineverb
grow smaller;
Declineverb
go down;
Declineverb
go down in value;
Declineverb
inflect for number, gender, case, etc.,
Declineverb
(typically of something regarded as good) become smaller, fewer, or less; decrease
Declineverb
diminish in strength or quality; deteriorate
Declineverb
politely refuse (an invitation or offer)
Declineverb
(especially of the sun) move downwards
Declineverb
bend down; droop
Declineverb
(in the grammar of Latin, Greek, and certain other languages) state the forms of (a noun, pronoun, or adjective) corresponding to case, number, and gender.
Declinenoun
a gradual and continuous loss of strength, numbers, quality, or value
Declinenoun
the sun's gradual setting
Declinenoun
a disease in which the bodily strength gradually fails, especially tuberculosis
