Accommodate vs. Cater — What's the Difference?

(of a building or other area) provide lodging or sufficient space for

The name 'Cater' was taken on by someone who worked as a caterer. The surname Cater was official name, "the cater", derived from the Old French ale catour, a little meaning a buyer of groceries for the gentleman's house.

Fit in with the wishes or needs of

To provide food or entertainment.

To have enough space for

To be particularly attentive or solicitous; minister

To provide lodging for

To provide food service for

To take into consideration or make adjustments for; allow for

To attend to the wants or needs of.

To do a favor or service for; oblige.

To provide, particularly:

To provide for; supply with something needed

(ambitransitive) To provide with food, especially for a special occasion as a professional service.

To make suitable; adapt or adjust

To provide anything required or desired, often (pejorative) to pander.

To adapt oneself; become adjusted

To place, set, move, or cut diagonally or rhomboidally.

(Physiology) To become adjusted, as the eye to focusing on objects at a distance.

(obsolete) acater: an officer who purchased cates (food supplies) for the steward of a large household or estate.

To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.

(obsolete) caterer: any provider of food.

(transitive) To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.

Syn of purveyor: any provider of anything.

(transitive) To provide housing for.

Four.

To provide sufficient space for

The four of cards or dice.

(transitive) To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.

(music) A method of ringing nine bells in four pairs with a ninth tenor bell.

(transitive) To do a favor or service for; to oblige.

Diagonally.

(transitive) To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.

A provider; a purveyor; a caterer.

(transitive) To give consideration to; to allow for.

The four of cards or dice.

(transitive) To contain comfortably; to have space for.

To provide food; to buy, procure, or prepare provisions.

To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.

By extension: To supply what is needed or desired, at theatrical or musical entertainments; - followed by for or to.

To change focal length in order to focus at a different distance.

To cut diagonally.

(obsolete) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.

Provide what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance;

To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.

Supply food ready to eat; for parties and banquets

To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.

To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.

To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.

To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted.

Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.

Be agreeable or acceptable to;

Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose;

Provide with something desired or needed;

Have room for; hold without crowding;

Provide housing for;

Provide a service or favor for someone;

Make compatible with;