All 15 Uses of
accord
in
The God of Small Things
- According to Estha, if they'd been born on the bus, they'd have got free bus rides for the rest of their lives.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- And banana jam (illegally) after the FPO (Food Products Organization) banned it because according to their specifications it was neither jam nor jelly.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- One of her ambitions was to own a watch on which she could change the time whenever she wanted to (which according to her was what Time was meant for in the first place).†
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- As for a divorced daughter—according to Baby Kochamma, she had no position anywhere at all.†
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- According to whom?†
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- It caused a great deal of resentment among the other Touchable factory workers because, according to them, Paravans were not meant to be carpenters.†
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- The best fish curry, according to Estha, in the whole world.†
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- The strange thing about Roman soldiers in the comics, according to Rahel, was the amount of trouble they took over their armor and their helmets, and then, after all that, they left their legs bare.†
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- According to Ammu, only clerks behaved like that, not aristocrats.†
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- He pinned the ghost to the trunk of a rubber tree, where, according to Vellya Paapen, it still remained.†
Chpt 10 (definition 1)
- Estha and Rahel accorded the second third and the third third of the Meenachal the deference it deserved.
Chpt 10 (definition 2) *accorded = gave special treatment to
- On bad days the orange walls held hands and bent over him, inspecting him like malevolent doctors, slowly, deliberately, squeezing the breath out of him and making him scream. Sometimes they receded of their own accord, and the room he lay in grew impossibly large, terrorizing him with the specter of his own insignificance.
Chpt 10 (definition 3) *own accord = own mind (as though walls moved of their own free will)
- He said that according to the Labor Laws we had no grounds on which to dismiss him.
Chpt 13 (definition 1) *according to = based upon (in keeping with)
- But according to Party sources Trivandrum Response was much more better.†
Chpt 14 (definition 1)
- Because, according to Baby Kochamma, that would amount to destroying herself and her children.†
Chpt 19 (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: accord her the respect deserved) to give someone special treatment -- especially respect
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(3) (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.