All 21 Uses of
accord
in
Doctor Zhivago
- "Each according to his fate," she seemed to say.†
Chpt 1.1 (definition 1) *
- She longed to run away from herself and from the Kologrivovs-anywhere —but according to her standards, she must first repay the money she had borrowed, and at the moment she had no means of doing it.†
Chpt 1.3 (definition 1)
- He believed in behaving simply and honestly according to the circumstances in which life placed him.†
Chpt 1.4 (definition 1)
- Antonina Alexandrovna never let go of the bottle, and now and then diluted a small portion of the alcohol with more or less water, according to her inspiration.†
Chpt 2.6 (definition 1)
- The windows, which Yurii Andreievich had recently fixed according to the prosector's recipe, gave off the warm, greasy smell of putty.†
Chpt 2.6 (definition 1)
- According to him, all traffic had stopped.†
Chpt 2.6 (definition 1)
- These were the people who reorganized everything in accordance with the plan, and company after company, enterprise after enterprise became Bolshevized.†
Chpt 2.6 (definition 1)
- As the train was approaching his native province, Prituliev recalled the way to his village, the station, and the road you took according to whether you went by horse or on foot, and at the mention of familiar village names, Vasia repeated them with shining eyes, as if they were a marvellous fairy tale.†
Chpt 2.7 (definition 1)
- Only in the buds that spotted it all over like drops of candle grease there was something not in accord with the rest, something superfluous, some disturbance, perhaps dirt or an inflammation causing them to swell, and the disturbance, superfluity, and dirt were the signs of life, which had already set the most forward of the trees on fire with its green leafy flame.†
Chpt 2.7 (definition 1)
- One of the assistants was a cross-looking woman who wore a woollen shawl and kept putting on her pince-nez and taking it off, apparently in accordance with mood rather than need.†
Chpt 2.9 (definition 1)
- The villages and small towns along it were Red or White according to the fortunes of war.†
Chpt 2.11 (definition 1)
- According to the Red Cross International Convention, the army medical personnel must not take part in the military operations of the belligerents.†
Chpt 2.11 (definition 1)
- The Whites had completed the encirclement according to plan.†
Chpt 2.12 (definition 1)
- That is what the few remaining inhabitants think, according to my source.†
Chpt 2.12 (definition 1)
- Not that I care if they themselves broke the rules and deceived other people or if they lived according to their conscience-it's not they that I'm concerned with, but with the actual content of these passages.†
Chpt 2.13 (definition 1)
- He was not deliberately striving for such a goal, but this broad vision came of its own accord as a consolation, like a message sent to him by Lara from her travels, like a distant greeting from her, like her appearance in a dream or the touch of her hand on his forehead, and he loved this ennobling imprint.†
Chpt 2.14 (definition 2)
- At this same table in days gone by, at the time of the bread rationing, all the tenants' coupons were collected and cut, snipped, counted, sorted, and wrapped in pieces of paper or tied into bundles according to their category before being taken to the baker's at dawn; and here too, later on in the morning, the loaves were cut and broken and crumbled to make up each tenant's apportioned weight.†
Chpt 2.15 (definition 1)
- In front of it stood Markel's wife Agafia; her sleeves were rolled up above her elbows and she was using a long pair of tongs to move the pots inside the oven, crowding them together or spacing them out according to need.†
Chpt 2.15 (definition 1)
- The living language of our time, born spontaneously and naturally in accord with its spirit, is the language of urban-ism.†
Chpt 2.15 (definition 1)
- The earth is stark-naked yet: It hasn't got a stitch to wear of nights To ring the bells, or to chime in Of its own accord, with choirs singing.†
Chpt 2.17 (definition 2) *
- Suddenly Someone recalled: according to the Old Style It was the sixth of August— The Lord's Transfiguration.†
Chpt 2.17 (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (accord as in: according to, or in accord with) in keeping with; or in agreement/harmony/unity withThis meaning of accord is often seen in the form according to or accordingly where it can take on more specific meanings. For example:
- "According to Kim, ..." -- as stated by
- "To each according to her ability." -- based upon
- "Points are scored according to how well they perform." -- depending upon
- "The dose is calculated according to body weight." -- in proportion to
- "We got a flat tire. Accordingly, I pulled to the side of the road." -- because of what was just said; or as a result
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(2) (accord as in: done of her own accord) mindeditor's notes: This sense of accord is typically seen in the form own accord or one accord.