Accept (verb)
To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
Accept (verb)
To admit to a place or a group.
“The Boy Scouts were going to accept him as a member.”
Accept (verb)
To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
“I accept the notion that Christ lived.”
Accept (verb)
To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
Accept (verb)
To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
“I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.”
Accept (verb)
To endure patiently.
“I accept my punishment.”
Accept (verb)
To agree to pay.
Accept (verb)
To receive officially.
“to accept the report of a committee”
Accept (verb)
To receive something willingly.
“I accept.”
Accept (adjective)
Accepted.
Except (verb)
To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
Except (verb)
To take exception, to object (to or against).
“to except to a witness or his testimony”
Except (preposition)
With the exception of; but.
“There was nothing in the cupboard except a tin of beans.”
Except (conjunction)
With the exception (that); used to introduce a clause, phrase or adverb forming an exception or qualification to something previously stated.
“You look a bit like my sister, except she has longer hair.”
“I never made fun of her except teasingly.”
Except (conjunction)
Unless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.
Except (preposition)
not including; other than
“they work every day except Sunday”
“I was naked except for my socks”
Except (conjunction)
used before a statement that forms an exception to one just made
“I didn’t tell him anything, except that I needed the money”
“our berets were the same except mine was blue”
Except (conjunction)
unless
“she never offered advice, except it were asked of her”
Except (verb)
specify as excluded from a category or group
“five classes of advertisement are excepted from control”