Definitions for accesses

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accesses ac·cess

Spelling: [ak-ses]

IPA: /ˈæk sɛs/

Accesses is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in accesses (acceesss).

Definitions for accesses

noun

1. the ability, right, or permission to approach, enter, speak with, or use; admittance:
2. the state or quality of being approachable:
3. a way or means of approach:
4. Theology. approach to God through Jesus Christ.
5. an attack or onset, as of a disease.
6. a sudden and strong emotional outburst.
7. accession.
8. public-access television.

adjective

1. Television. (of programming, time, etc.) available to the public:

verb (used with object)

1. to make contact with or gain access to; be able to reach, approach, enter, etc.:
2. Computers. to locate (data) for transfer from one part of a computer system to another, generally between an external storage device and main storage.

Origin of accesses

1275-1325; Middle English accesse (Old French acces) Latin accessus an approach, equivalent to acced-, variant stem of accēdere to accede + -tus suffix of v. action

Examples for accesses

accesses of anger an still noted, during which he is very vulgar.

So it went for weeks, for months, with the accesses of depression and anger always rarer.

Increasing age gave to these accesses of malady a character of danger, which she already began to remark with deep anxiety.

Raymond had prayed to God, in some of his accesses of fanaticism, that he might suffer martyrdom in his holy cause.

But when we are in a fever, have the sun and moon any influence upon the accesses of it, in its days of crisis?

He was aware of hepatic pains, suffered from accesses of somnolence and suppressed gusts of fury which frightened him secretly.

It is fair, however, to say that these accesses of morality or moralising are not very frequent.

That the progress of philosophy has hardened Browning's heart to accesses of passion, or cramped his creative imagination?

Bands of Highlanders watched its gates and accesses, guarding against Hanoverian sallies.

These accesses of strength are sometimes the sign of the death agony.