Accept vs. Except — What's the Difference?

To answer affirmatively

Not including; other than

To agree to take (a duty or responsibility).

Used before a statement that forms an exception to one just made

To receive (something offered), especially with gladness or approval

Specify as excluded from a category or group

To admit to a group, organization, or place

With the exclusion of; other than; but

To regard as proper, usual, or right

If it were not for the fact that; only. Often used with that

To regard as true; believe in

Otherwise than

To understand as having a specific meaning.

(Archaic) Unless

To endure resignedly or patiently

To leave out; exclude

To be able to hold (something applied or inserted)

To object

To receive officially

(transitive) To exclude; to specify as being an exception.

To consent to pay, as by a signed agreement.

(intransitive) To take exception, to object (to or against).

To take payment in the form of

With the exception of; but.

(Medicine) To receive (a transplanted organ or tissue) without immunological rejection.

With the exception (that); used to introduce a clause, phrase or adverb forming an exception or qualification to something previously stated.

To receive something, especially with favor. Often used with of.

(archaic) Unless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.

(transitive) To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.

To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.

(transitive) To admit to a place or a group.

To object to; to protest against.

(transitive) To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.

To take exception; to object; - usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to except to a witness or his testimony.

(transitive) To receive as adequate or satisfactory.

With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting.

(transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.

Unless; if it be not so that.

(transitive) To endure patiently.

Take exception to;

(transitive) To acknowledge patiently without opposition or resistance.

Prevent from being included or considered or accepted;

To agree to pay.

(transitive) To receive officially.

(intransitive) To receive something willingly.

(obsolete) Accepted.

To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; - often followed by of.

To receive with favor; to approve.

To receive or admit and agree to; to assent to; as, I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.

To take by the mind; to understand; as, How are these words to be accepted?

To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange.

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.]

Accepted.

Consider or hold as true;

Receive willingly something given or offered;

Give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to;

React favorably to; consider right and proper;

Admit into a group or community;

Take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person;

Tolerate or accommodate oneself to;

Be designed to hold or take;

Of a deliberative body: receive (a report) officially, as from a committee

Make use of or accept for some purpose;

Be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal;