accord vs spat

accord

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

  • 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 agree in pitch and tone. 

noun
  • Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act. 

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

  • A distinctive mixture of fragrances or the odor thereof. 

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

  • An international agreement. 

  • Agreement or harmony of things in general. 

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

spat

verb
  • To quarrel or argue briefly. 

  • To slap, as with the open hand; to clap together, as the hands. 

  • To spawn. Used of shellfish as above. 

  • To strike with a spattering sound. 

noun
  • A covering or decorative covering worn over a shoe. 

  • A brief argument, falling out, quarrel. 

  • A juvenile shellfish which has attached to a hard surface. 

  • A drag-reducing aerodynamic fairing covering the upper portions of the tyres of an aeroplane equipped with non-retractable landing gear. 

  • A piece of bodywork that covers the upper portions of the rear tyres of a car. 

  • An obsolete unit of distance in astronomy (symbol S), equal to one billion kilometres. 

  • A light blow with something flat. 

  • The spawn of shellfish, especially oysters and similar molluscs. 

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