Access

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: ac=cess

CIDE DICTIONARY

Access, n. [F. accès, L. accessus, fr. accedere. See Accede.].

•  A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince.  [1913 Webster]

  "I did repel his letters, and denied
  His access to me."  [1913 Webster]
•  The means, place, or way by which a thing may be approached; passage way; as, the access is by a neck of land.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]
•  Admission to sexual intercourse.  [1913 Webster]

  "During coverture, access of the husband shall be presumed, unless the contrary be shown."  [1913 Webster]
•  Increase by something added; addition; as, an access of territory. [In this sense accession is more generally used.]  [1913 Webster]

  "I, from the influence of thy looks, receive
  Access in every virtue."  [1913 Webster]
•  An onset, attack, or fit of disease.  [1913 Webster]

  "The first access looked like an apoplexy."  [1913 Webster]
•  A paroxysm; a fit of passion; an outburst; as, an access of fury.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Access, n. & v.
--n.
1 a way of approaching or reaching or entering (a building with rear access).
2 a (often foll. by to) the right or opportunity to reach or use or visit; admittance (has access to secret files; was granted access to the prisoner). b the condition of being readily approached; accessibility.
3 (often foll. by of) an attack or outburst (an access of anger).
4 (attrib.) Brit. (of broadcasting) allowed to minority or special-interest groups to undertake (access television).
--v.tr.
1 Computing gain access to (data, a file, etc.).
2 accession.

Idiom

access road a road giving access only to the properties along it. access time Computing the time taken to retrieve data from storage.

Etymology

ME f. OF acces or L accessus f. accedere (as AC-, cedere cess- go)

THESAURUS

Access

Jacksonian epilepsy, Rasputin, Rolandic epilepsy, Svengali, VIP, abdominal epilepsy, accessibility, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, acquired epilepsy, activated epilepsy, addition, adit, admission, admittance, advance, advent, affect epilepsy, afflux, affluxion, aggrandizement, air lock, aisle, akinetic epilepsy, alley, ambulatory, amplification, aperture, apoplexy, appreciation, approach, approachability, approaching, appropinquation, approximation, appulse, arcade, arrest, artery, ascent, attack, attainability, augmentation, autonomic epilepsy, availability, avenue, bad influence, ballooning, big wheel, blaze of temper, bloating, blockage, blowup, boom, boost, broadening, buildup, burst, cardiac epilepsy, channel, cloister, clonic spasm, clonus, colonnade, come-at-ableness, coming, coming near, coming toward, communication, conduit, connection, convulsion, corridor, cortical epilepsy, court, covered way, cramp, crescendo, cursive epilepsy, defile, development, diurnal epilepsy, eclampsia, edema, elevation, eminence grise, enlargement, entrance, entranceway, entree, entry, entryway, epilepsia, epilepsia gravior, epilepsia major, epilepsia minor, epilepsia mitior, epilepsia nutans, epilepsia tarda, epilepsy, epitasis, eruption, exit, expansion, explosion, extension, falling sickness, ferry, fit, five-percenter, flare-up, flood, flowing toward, focal epilepsy, ford, forthcoming, frenzy, friend at court, gain, gallery, gangplank, gangway, getatableness, gettableness, good influence, grand mal, gray eminence, greatening, grip, growth, gush, gust, hall, haute mal, heavyweight, hidden hand, high words, hike, hysterical epilepsy, ictus, imminence, import, importation, importing, in, income, incoming, increase, increment, infiltration, inflation, influence, influence peddler, influencer, ingoing, ingress, ingression, ingroup, inlet, input, insertion, insinuation, intake, interchange, interpenetration, intersection, introduction, introgression, intrusion, jump, junction, key, kingmaker, lane, larval epilepsy, laryngeal epilepsy, laryngospasm, latent epilepsy, leakage, leap, lobby, lobbyist, lockjaw, lords of creation, man of influence, manipulator, matutinal epilepsy, means of access, menstrual epilepsy, mounting, multiplication, musicogenic epilepsy, myoclonous epilepsy, nearing, nearness, nocturnal epilepsy, obtainability, obtainableness, occlusion, oncoming, onset, open arms, open door, open sesame, opening, openness, orgasm, outburst, outlet, overpass, pang, paroxysm, pass, passage, passageway, penetrability, penetration, percolation, perviousness, petit mal, physiologic epilepsy, portico, powers that be, pressure group, procurability, procurableness, productiveness, proliferation, proximation, psychic epilepsy, psychomotor epilepsy, railroad tunnel, raise, reachableness, reception, reflex epilepsy, rise, rotatoria, route, sally, scene, securableness, seepage, seizure, sensory epilepsy, serial epilepsy, sexual climax, sinister influence, snowballing, spasm, special interests, special-interest group, spell, spread, stitch, stoppage, storm, stroke, surge, swelling, taking, tardy epilepsy, tetanus, tetany, the Establishment, throes, thromboembolism, thrombosis, tonic epilepsy, tonic spasm, torsion spasm, traject, trajet, traumatic epilepsy, trismus, tumescence, tunnel, turn, twinge, ucinate epilepsy, underpass, up, upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, very important person, vestibule, visitation, waxing, way, way in, wheeler-dealer, widening, wire-puller

ROGET THESAURUS

Access

Approach

N approach, approximation, appropinquation, access, appulse, afflux, affluxion, advent, pursuit, approaching, approximative, affluent, impending, imminent, on the road, Int, come hither!, approach!, here!, come!, come near!, forward!.