Accept vs. Except
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;
Exceptverb
(transitive) To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
Exceptverb
(intransitive) To take exception, to object (to or against).
Exceptpreposition
With the exception of; but.
Exceptconjunction
With the exception (that); used to introduce a clause, phrase or adverb forming an exception or qualification to something previously stated.
Exceptconjunction
(archaic) Unless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.
Exceptverb
To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.
Exceptverb
To object to; to protest against.
Exceptverb
To take exception; to object; - usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to except to a witness or his testimony.
Exceptpreposition
With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting.
Exceptconjunction
Unless; if it be not so that.
Exceptverb
take exception to;
Exceptverb
prevent from being included or considered or accepted;
Exceptpreposition
not including; other than
Exceptconjunction
used before a statement that forms an exception to one just made
Exceptconjunction
unless
Exceptverb
specify as excluded from a category or group
