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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
accompany
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
accompany sb on the piano (=play the piano while someone sings or plays a different instrument)
▪ Lisa sang while George accompanied her on the piano.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
always
▪ Signal voltage gain is always accompanied by greater signal current attenuation and viceversa with a transformer.
▪ People at the sales conference also discussed the real concerns that always accompany fundamental change.
▪ He was always accompanied by at least one of the trainers, who seemed to be specially assigned to him.
▪ HYPOKALEMlA A low plasma potassium concentration is not always accompanied by a deficit in total body potassium.
▪ The warriors always accompany them when they must travel long distances to find green grass.
▪ Efficiency arguments, nevertheless, are always accompanied by questions of fairness.
▪ With the exception of these 11 patients, when ultrasonagraphy suggested gall stone recurrence it was always accompanied by an oral cholecystectography.
▪ Sometimes he would eye young women in the street, but they were always accompanied by maids or chaperones.
often
▪ Morning and evening they were exercised in the nearby meadows, and we often accompanied our father on these walks.
▪ For similar reasons, deep rips in the crust often accompany the arrival of plumes at the surface.
▪ The gamblers were often accompanied by street performers, vendors, pickpockets, women of ill-repute and down-and-outs of every degree.
▪ Consider that the check normally goes to the woman and is often accompanied by female social workers.
▪ The result is that, when relationships break down, women's disappointment is often accompanied by extraordinary, uncomprehending bitterness.
▪ And their dull appearance is often accompanied by teaching methods that consist mostly of scribbling graphs on a blackboard.
▪ It is often accompanied by die-back of shoot tips early in the year.
▪ A change in sleeping habits is important, because insomnia often accompanies depression.
usually
▪ The girls who pile into the exhibition centre are usually accompanied by a flock of female relatives.
▪ Bonaventure, but none of them reported any of the jerking movement, incontinence or tongue-biting that usually accompanies seizures.
▪ This is generally caused by a decomposing body or bodies polluting the water and is usually accompanied by an unpleasant smell.
▪ But another factor is that instruction manuals that usually accompany new computer hardware and software are difficult to understand.
▪ Fluid loss is usually accompanied by electrolyte loss.
▪ Pneumonia is usually accompanied by fever.
▪ They were usually accompanied by or incorporated into written texts.
▪ The inhabitants of a village would usually accompany the marchers to the next, as a sort of honor guard.
■ NOUN
change
▪ This would only be effective if it were accompanied by changes in policing practice and prosecution policy.
▪ But the Oregon story also illustrates some of the difficulties that will accompany legislative changes on such a massive scale.
▪ The widening of educational opportunity in the immediate post-war period was not accompanied by radical changes in its content.
▪ The changes are not necessarily accompanied by flavor change.
▪ The loss of spontaneity and initiative may be accompanied by personality changes, anxiety and restlessness, particularly around tea time.
▪ Such yardsticks, though imperfect, have continued to anticipate or accompany major changes in the economy.
▪ Changes in social structure are thus likely to be accompanied by changes in the function of component institutions.
▪ Shifts in attitudes accompanied these bewildering changes in policy.
exhibition
▪ Also organized to accompany the exhibition were story-telling sessions for both children and adults.
▪ A catalogue has been produced to accompany the exhibition, which runs from 24 November to 18 December.
▪ The Conference is traditionally accompanied by an Exhibition, and this year is no exception.
▪ Voice over Mary Greenstead's book is accompanied by an exhibition at Cheltenham Museum.
increase
▪ Not surprisingly, these expanding missions have been accompanied by increases in manpower and budget.
story
▪ That way the press will have something to photograph to accompany their stories.
▪ Some of the children drew pictures to accompany the stories while others pasted pictures alongside them.
wife
▪ He had gone to his parents' house, accompanied by his wife, a nurse, and two aides.
▪ According to Heikal, Sadat was put into a helicopter, accompanied by his wife Jihan.
▪ At Bergen-Belsen the President, accompanied by his wife, passed among the roll of the dead, the burial mounds.
▪ Through unofficial channels I agreed with Okudzhava that he should be accompanied by his wife.
▪ He arrives accompanied by his wife.
▪ He was accompanied by his wife who was flustered and appeared to have been crying.
▪ Sometimes he is accompanied by his wife June, who also paints; at others, his students are in tow.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Children under 10 must be accompanied by an adult.
▪ Gary accompanied Jenna on the guitar.
▪ Headaches due to viral infections may be accompanied by fever.
▪ John has decided to accompany me on my trip to India.
▪ Please read the accompanying information before taking this medication.
▪ Your completed passport application should be accompanied by two recent photographs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ About 40 acres of parkland with lakes, gardens and woodlands, accompany the house.
▪ Adultery was the sole ground, but a wife could only divorce her husband if accompanied by some other matrimonial transgression.
▪ All are afflicted with a rise in overcrowded classrooms, teacher layoffs, and the other crises that accompany financial cutbacks.
▪ Derryberry remains his trusted musical adviser, accompanying him to concerts and often listening from the last row.
▪ Peace abroad was accompanied by peace at home.
▪ Shall I accompany you on the violin?
▪ The decrease in sodium reabsorption by the renal tubules will be accompanied by decreased chloride and water retention.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accompany

Accompany \Ac*com"pa*ny\, v. i.

  1. To associate in a company; to keep company. [Obs.]
    --Bacon.

    Men say that they will drive away one another, . . . and not accompany together.
    --Holland.

  2. To cohabit (with). [Obs.]
    --Milton.

  3. (Mus.) To perform an accompanying part or parts in a composition.

Accompany

Accompany \Ac*com"pa*ny\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accompanied; p. pr. & vb. n. Accompanying] [OF. aacompaignier, F. accompagner, to associate with, fr. OF. compaign, compain, companion. See Company.]

  1. To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with; -- followed by with or by; as, he accompanied his speech with a bow.

    The Persian dames, . . . In sumptuous cars, accompanied his march.
    --Glover.

    They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
    --Sir P. Sidney.

    He was accompanied by two carts filled with wounded rebels.
    --Macaulay.

  2. To cohabit with. [Obs.]
    --Sir T. Herbert.

    Syn: To attend; escort; go with.

    Usage: To Accompany, Attend, Escort. We accompany those with whom we go as companions. The word imports an equality of station. We attend those whom we wait upon or follow. The word conveys an idea of subordination. We escort those whom we attend with a view to guard and protect. A gentleman accompanies a friend to some public place; he attends or escorts a lady.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
accompany

early 15c., "to be in company with," from Middle French accompagner, from Old French acompaignier (12c.) "take as a companion," from à "to" (see ad-) + compaignier, from compaign (see companion). Related: Accompanied; accompanying.

Wiktionary
accompany

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with. 2 (context transitive English) To supplement with; add to.

WordNet
accompany

  1. v. be associated with; "French fries come with the hamburger" [syn: attach to, come with, go with]

  2. go or travel along with; "The nurse accompanied the old lady everywhere"

  3. perform an accompaniment to; "The orchestra could barely follow the frequent pitch changes of the soprano" [syn: play along, follow]

  4. be a companion to somebody [syn: company, companion, keep company]

  5. [also: accompanied]

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Usage examples of "accompany".

Le Duc begged to be allowed to accompany me on horseback, saying that he had been a true prophet.

I told her that I should begin by introducing her to the lady whom I had the honour to accompany, and I begged her to be ready by the next day as the marchioness was impatient to see her.

The colonel begged me to accompany him to the guard-room, to see the thieving soldier flogged.

As we rose from the table, Madame went into her closet with her niece and nephew that was to be, and the niece came out in the course of an hour and bade us congratulate her, as she was to be married in a week, and after the wedding she would accompany her husband to Dunkirk.

I had a fine voice, he cultivated it carefully, and in less than a year I could accompany myself on the harpsichord.

I put them under a sealed envelope and gave them to Camille, who asked me the next day to accompany her to a place which she said she could not name to me.

I was vexed on account of Gertrude, who believed herself with child, but could not make up her mind to accompany me to France.

So after supper I said that as it was not certain that Sara could become my wife I had determined not to accompany them to Berne.

I did not want to take a courtesan or a married woman with me, and I could not reasonably expect that any young lady of family would accompany me.

On the 13th November, Casanova left Paris in company with his brother, Francesco, whose wife did not accompany him.

This conduct provoked me almost to madness, but my surprise was indeed great when, at the breakfast table, she asked me whether I would let her dress me up as a girl to accompany her five or six days later to a ball for which a neighbour of ours, Doctor Olivo, had sent letters of invitation.

This was the first time I had anything to do with a woman of quality, and that air of patronage, whatever kindness might accompany it, always put me out of temper, for I thought it made love out of the question.

She added in her letter that, if I wished to accompany her to Naples, she would meet me anywhere I might appoint, but that, if I had any objection to return to that city, she would immediately refuse the brilliant offer, for her only happiness was to please me in all things.

The day after our arrival, I took a janissary to accompany me to Osman Pacha, of Caramania, the name assumed by Count de Bonneval ever since he had adopted the turban.

Count Spada, who had got quite fond of me, wanted me to accompany him to Brisighetta, but I resisted his entreaties because I had firmly resolved on going to Naples.