Accept vs. Expect — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Accept and Expect
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Accept
To answer affirmatively
Accept an invitation.
Expect
Expect is an extension to the Tcl scripting language written by Don Libes. The program automates interactions with programs that expose a text terminal interface.
Accept
To agree to take (a duty or responsibility).
Expect
Regard (something) as likely to happen
One might expect that Hollywood would adjust its approach
It's as well to expect the worst
The hearing is expected to last a week
Accept
To receive (something offered), especially with gladness or approval
Accepted a glass of water.
Accepted their contract.
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Expect
To look forward to the probable occurrence or appearance of
Expecting a phone call.
Expects rain on Sunday.
Accept
To admit to a group, organization, or place
Accepted me as a new member of the club.
Expect
To consider likely or certain
Expect to see them soon. See Usage Note at anticipate.
Accept
To regard as proper, usual, or right
Such customs are widely accepted.
Expect
To consider reasonable or due
We expect an apology.
Accept
To regard as true; believe in
Scientists have accepted the new theory.
Expect
To consider obligatory; require
The school expects its pupils to be on time.
Accept
To understand as having a specific meaning.
Expect
(Informal) To presume; suppose.
Accept
To endure resignedly or patiently
Accept one's fate.
Expect
To be pregnant. Used in progressive tenses
My wife is expecting again.
Accept
To be able to hold (something applied or inserted)
This wood will not accept oil paints.
Expect
(ambitransitive) To predict or believe that something will happen
I expect to be able to walk again after getting over my broken leg.
He never expected to be discovered.
We ended up waiting a little longer than we had expected
The doctor said he expected me to make a full recovery.
Accept
To receive officially
Accept the committee's report.
Expect
To consider obligatory or required.
Accept
To consent to pay, as by a signed agreement.
Expect
To consider reasonably due.
You are expected to get the task done by the end of next week.
Accept
To take payment in the form of
A store that does not accept checks.
Expect
(continuous aspect only, of a woman or couple) To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
Accept
(Medicine) To receive (a transplanted organ or tissue) without immunological rejection.
Expect
To wait for; to await.
Accept
To receive something, especially with favor. Often used with of.
Expect
To wait; to stay.
Accept
(transitive) To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
Expect
To wait for; to await.
Let's in, and there expect their coming.
Accept
(transitive) To admit to a place or a group.
The Boy Scouts were going to accept him as a member.
Expect
To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; - often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that); as, I expect to receive wages; I expect that the troops will be defeated.
The Somersetshire or yellow regiment . . . was expected to arrive on the following day.
Accept
(transitive) To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
I accept the notion that Christ lived.
Expect
To wait; to stay.
Accept
(transitive) To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
Expect
Expectation.
Accept
(transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.
Expect
Regard something as probable or likely;
The meteorologists are expecting rain for tomorrow
Accept
(transitive) To endure patiently.
I accept my punishment.
Expect
Consider obligatory; request and expect;
We require our secretary to be on time
Aren't we asking too much of these children?
I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons
Accept
(transitive) To acknowledge patiently without opposition or resistance.
We need to accept the fact that restaurants are closed due to COVID-19 and that no amount of wishing or screaming will make them reopen any sooner.
Expect
Look forward to the probable occurrence of;
We were expecting a visit from our relatives
She is looking to a promotion
He is waiting to be drafted
Accept
To agree to pay.
Expect
Consider reasonable or due;
I'm expecting a full explanation as to why these files were destroyed
Accept
(transitive) To receive officially.
To accept the report of a committee
Expect
Be pregnant with;
She is bearing his child
The are expecting another child in January
I am carrying his child
Accept
(intransitive) To receive something willingly.
Expect
Look forward to the birth of a child;
She is expecting in March
Accept
(obsolete) Accepted.
Accept
To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; - often followed by of.
If you accept them, then their worth is great.
To accept of ransom for my son.
She accepted of a treat.
Accept
To receive with favor; to approve.
The Lord accept thy burnt sacrifice.
Peradventure he will accept of me.
Accept
To receive or admit and agree to; to assent to; as, I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.
Accept
To take by the mind; to understand; as, How are these words to be accepted?
Accept
To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange.
Accept
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.]
Accept
Accepted.
Accept
Consider or hold as true;
I cannot accept the dogma of this church
Accept an argument
Accept
Receive willingly something given or offered;
The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter
I won't have this dog in my house!
Please accept my present
Accept
Give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to;
I cannot accept your invitation
I go for this resolution
Accept
React favorably to; consider right and proper;
People did not accept atonal music at that time
We accept the idea of universal health care
Accept
Admit into a group or community;
Accept students for graduate study
We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member
Accept
Take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person;
I'll accept the charges
She agreed to bear the responsibility
Accept
Tolerate or accommodate oneself to;
I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions
I swallowed the insult
She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncracies
Accept
Be designed to hold or take;
This surface will not take the dye
Accept
Of a deliberative body: receive (a report) officially, as from a committee
Accept
Make use of or accept for some purpose;
Take a risk
Take an opportunity
Accept
Be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal;
The cow accepted the bull
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