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access
noun
(
es, -
)
(
uncountable
) A way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage.
All was thronged. - Milton
(
uncountable
) The act of approaching or entering; an advance.
(
uncountable
) The right or ability of approaching or entering; admittance; admission; accessibility.
I did repel his fetters, and denied His to me. - Shakespeare,
Hamlet, II-i
(
uncountable
) Admission to sexual intercourse.
During coverture, of the husband shall be presumed, unless the contrary be shown. - Blackstone
(
countable
) An increase by addition; accession; as, an of territory.
I, from the influence of thy looks, receive in every virtue. - Milton
(
countable
) An onset, attack, or fit of disease; an ague fit.
The first looked like an apoplexy. - Burnet
(
countable
) An outburst of an emotion; a paroxysm; a fit of passion; as, an of fury.
1946
: Arnold J. Toynbee,
A Study of History (Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by D.C. Somervell)
: It appears that, about the middle of the fourth century of the Christian Era, the Germans in the Roman service started the new practice of retaining their native names; and this change of etiquette, which seems to have been abrupt, points to a sudden <b>access</b> of self-confidence and self-assurance in the souls of the barbarian
personnel
which had previously been content to 'go Roman' without reservations.
(
uncountable
) The right of a non-custodial parent to visit their child.
(
uncountable
) (
computing
) The process of locating data in memory.
(
uncountable
) (
internet
) connection, Connection to or communication with a computer program or to the Internet.
Translations:
Dutch: bezoekrecht
(
trans-mid
)
French: accès
German: Zugriff
Italian: accesso
(
trans-mid
)
verb
(
access, es
)
(
transitive
) To gain or obtain access to.
(
transitive
) (
computing
) To have access to (data).
Translations:
Dutch: toegang hebben (tot)
German: Zugang haben
Etymology:
From
accès
or from
accessus
, past participle of
accedere
"to accede".
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