agreement

Roget-categorie 23

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.2. Relation
›› 1.2.4. General relation

#23. Agreement

zelfstandig naamwoord

agreement — accord, accordance — unison, harmony — concord etc. 714 — concordance, concert — understanding, mutual understanding.
conformity etc. 82 — conformance — uniformity etc. 16 — consonance, consentaneousness^†, consistency — congruity, congruence — keeping — congeniality — correspondence, parallelism, apposition, union.
fitness, aptness etc. adj. — relevancy — pertinence, pertinencey^† — sortance^† — case in point — aptitude, coaptation^†, propriety, applicability, admissibility, commensurability, compatibility — cognation etc. (relation) 9.
adaption^†, adjustment, graduation, accommodation — reconciliation, reconcilement — assimilation.
consent etc. (assent) 488 — concurrence etc. 178 — cooperation etc. 709.
right man in the right place, very thing — quite the thing, just the thing.

werkwoord

be accordant etc. adj. — agree, accord, harmonize — correspond, tally, respond — meet, suit, fit, befit, do, adapt itself to — fall in with, chime in with, square with, quadrate with, consort with, comport with — dovetail, assimilate — fit like a glove, fit to a tittle, fit to a T — match etc. 17 — become one — homologate^†.
consent etc. (assent) 488.
render accordant etc. adj. — fit, suit, adapt, accommodate — graduate — adjust etc. (render equal) 27 — dress, regulate, readjust — accord, harmonize, reconcile — fadge^†, dovetail, square.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

agreeing, suiting etc. v. — in accord, accordant, concordant, consonant, congruous, consentaneous^†, correspondent, congenial — coherent — becoming — harmonious reconcilable, conformable — in accordance with, in harmony with, in keeping with, in unison with, etc. n. — at one with, of one mind, of a piece [Fr.] — consistent, compatible, proportionate — commensurate — on all fours.
apt, apposite, pertinent, pat — to the point, to the purpose — happy, felicitous, germane, ad rem [Lat.], in point, on point, directly on point, bearing upon, applicable, relevant, admissible.
fit adapted, in loco, a propos [Fr.], appropriate, seasonable, sortable, suitable, idoneous^†, deft — meet etc. (expedient) 646.
at home, in one's proper element.

bijwoord

a propos of [Fr.] — pertinently etc. adj..

uitdrukking

rem acu tetigisti [Lat.] — if the shoe fits, wear it — the cap fits — auxilia humilia firma consensus facit [Lat.] [Syrus]; discers concordia [Lat.] [Ovid].

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