ac·cord /əˈkɔrd/
 (v.)一致,符合,和諧,協調;給予,使一致;自願,主動


 Ac·cord n.
 1. Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.
    A mediator of an accord and peace between them.   --Bacon.
    These all continued with one accord in prayer.   --Acts i. 14.
 2. Harmony of sounds; agreement in pitch and tone; concord; as, the accord of tones.
    Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays.
 3. Agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting.
 4. Voluntary or spontaneous motion or impulse to act; -- preceded by own; as, of one's own accord.
    That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap.   --Lev. xxv. 5.
    Of his own accord he went unto you.   --2 Cor. vii. 17.
 5. Law An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit.
 With one accord, with unanimity.
    They rushed with one accord into the theater.   --Acts xix. 29.


 Ac·cord, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accorded; p. pr. & vb. n. According.]
 1. To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust; -- followed by to. [R.]
    Her hands accorded the lute's music to the voice.   --Sidney.
 2. To bring to an agreement, as persons; to reconcile; to settle, adjust, harmonize, or compose, as things; as, to accord suits or controversies.
    When they were accorded from the fray.   --Spenser.
    All which particulars, being confessedly knotty and difficult can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning.   --South.
 3. To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise. “According his desire.”


 Ac·cord, v. i.
 1. To agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; -- followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks.
    My heart accordeth with my tongue.   --Shak.
    Thy actions to thy words accord.   --Milton.
 2. To agree in pitch and tone.

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 accord
      n 1: harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters; "the
           two parties were in agreement" [syn: agreement] [ant:
           disagreement]
      2: concurrence of opinion; "we are in accord with your
         proposal" [syn: conformity, accordance]
      3: a written agreement between two states or sovereigns [syn: treaty,
          pact]
      4: sympathetic compatibility [syn: rapport]
      v 1: go together; "The colors don't harmonize"; "Their ideas
           concorded" [syn: harmonize, harmonise, consort, concord,
            fit in, agree]
      2: allow to have; "grant a privilege" [syn: allot, grant]