accord vs agreement

accord

noun
  • An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit. 

  • Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act. 

  • Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action. 

  • A distinctive mixture of fragrances or the odor thereof. 

  • An international agreement. 

  • Agreement or harmony of things in general. 

  • A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord. 

verb
  • To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant. 

  • To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award. 

  • To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize. 

  • To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust. 

  • To agree in pitch and tone. 

agreement

noun
  • A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law. 

  • Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts. 

  • An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct. 

  • A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another. 

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