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Access   /ˈæksˌɛs/   Listen
Access

noun
1.
The right to enter.  Synonyms: accession, admission, admittance, entree.
2.
The right to obtain or make use of or take advantage of something (as services or membership).
3.
A way of entering or leaving.  Synonym: approach.
4.
A code (a series of characters or digits) that must be entered in some way (typed or dialed or spoken) to get the use of something (a telephone line or a computer or a local area network etc.).  Synonym: access code.
5.
(computer science) the operation of reading or writing stored information.  Synonym: memory access.
6.
The act of approaching or entering.
verb
1.
Obtain or retrieve from a storage device; as of information on a computer.
2.
Reach or gain access to.  Synonym: get at.  "I cannot get to the T.V. antenna, even if I climb on the roof"



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"Access" Quotes from Famous Books



... mocassins, when going to wash. At present, the river is narrower, and I have chosen my camp twice on its dry sandy bed, under the shade of Casuarinas and Melaleucas, the stream being there comparatively easy of access, and not ten yards off. Many unpleasant remarks had been made by my companions at my choice of camping places; but, although I suffered as much inconvenience as they did, I bore it cheerfully, feeling thankful to Providence for the pure stream of water with which we were supplied ...
— Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia • Ludwig Leichhardt
... that it is for the national interest that people should have access to treasuries of art or knowledge, and therefore it is worth the nation's while to pay for placing the means of doing so at their disposal; granted, but is not a good bed one of the great ends of knowledge, whereto it must ...
— Selections from Previous Works - and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals • Samuel Butler
... reached the palace, they easily gained access to the royal presence. Then each one explained why he had ...
— Filipino Popular Tales • Dean S. Fansler
... traversed the high parapet, and I was now better able to examine this way of access, the ramparts of which arose from a prodigious depth; and they were extended along the sharp narrow ridge of the rock down to the very bottom of the valley. It was a long flight of jagged precipitous steps descending from the wolf's den, ...
— The Man-Wolf and Other Tales • Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian
... that the first question evidently is, 'Who were the Ephesians?' He finds the city of Ephesus upon the map; and from the preface to the Epistle contained in the commentary, or from any other source to which he can have access, he learns what sort of a city it was—what was the character of the inhabitants, and if possible, what condition the city was in at the time this letter was written. He next inquires in regard to the writer of this letter or Epistle, as it is called. It was Paul; ...
— Golden Steps to Respectability, Usefulness and Happiness • John Mather Austin


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