v. t. | 1. | ||||||||||
1. | To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); | ||||||||||
2. | To receive with favor; to approve. | ||||||||||
3. | To receive or admit and agree to; to assent to; | ||||||||||
4. | To take by the mind; to understand; as, How are these words to be accepted? | ||||||||||
5. | (Com.) To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; | ||||||||||
6. | In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed;
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a. | 1. | Accepted. |
(library, networking) | accept - Berkeley Unix networking socket
library routine to satisfy a connection request from a remote
host. A specified socket on the local host (which must be
capable of accepting the connection) is connected to the
requesting socket on the remote host. The remote socket's
socket address is returned. Unix manual pages: accept(2), connect(2). |