ACCORD

accord

Noun

  1. Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
  2. A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.
  3. Agreement or harmony of things in general.
    the accord of light and shade in painting
  4. An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
  5. An international agreement.
    The Geneva Accord of 1954 ended the French-Indochinese War.
  6. Assent
  7. Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.
    Nobody told me to do it. I did it of my own accord.

Verb

  1. To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
  2. To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
  3. To agree or correspond; to be in harmony.
  4. To agree in pitch and tone.
  5. To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
  6. To give consent.
  7. To arrive at an agreement.


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