Word Finder - access

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A way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage.

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The act of approaching or entering; an advance.

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The right or ability of approaching or entering; admittance; admission; accessibility.

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The quality of being easy to approach or enter.

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Admission to sexual intercourse.

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An increase by addition; accession

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an access of territory

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An onset, attack, or fit of disease; an ague fit.

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An outburst of an emotion; a paroxysm; a fit of passion

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The right of a noncustodial parent to visit their child.

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The process of locating data in memory.

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Connection to or communication with a computer program or to the Internet.

You gave Howard access to the checking account.

You had access to that door and didn't walk through it.

He gave us access to a web site on which to submit our information.

He reached a door finally and typed in the access code.

Gabriel was locked out, and Darkyn wasn't permitted access in the first place.

The Internet is not unique in solving for this access to information.

I'll give you the access code.

I'll help you access them, but we must both focus.

He has direct access to you and the most to gain.

The wide hallways were lit by skylights and lined with inset doors whose access pads glowed to the right of each door.

He motioned to a glowing access pad.

It has a large number of landlocked nations without ports to access the international markets, both for imports and exports.

After a surprised pause, she waved her bracelet in front of the internal access pad.

I recently gained access to this database that the company's owner uses.

You will have access to any equipment you need from any realm.

She waved her wrist before the access pad, but once more, the warrior prevented the door from opening.

He gets stymied at times because of lack of access to certain information sources.

I'm checking it out; I have access to that data base, but I bet the plate is stolen.

Today, an astonishing 77 percent of the people in the world have mobile devices and thus access to all kinds of better care via telemedicine.

As the camper was on the wooded side of the circle, there was no simple access to the rear.

The measure was taken to give him unfettered access to her visions.

She trotted to the bottom and waved her band before the access pad, waiting as the stone door opened.

First, the web promotes access to information, a huge force for peace.

As access becomes cheaper and better, and the whole world has mobile phones, more information can be delivered to people in remote parts of the world.

In 2006, roughly a billion people had access to the Internet.

He had access to his part much earlier than I did, so he was able to make some investments that really paid off.

He stepped aside and she waved her band in front of the access door.

He needed more than access to the underworld to save her; he needed the medical advice of someone like Wynn.

The access to information that mobile phones are bringing virtually everywhere on the planet is helping people raise their standard of living and will do so even more dramatically in the years to come.

It seems fitting to end this part of the list—ways that information and communication will help end war—by noting that every day, every moment, more and more people have access to the Internet.

Dean speculated that they might be concentrating too much on Fitzgerald and the Dawkinses, and not on others who had access to the Deans' quarters.

Would you be able to access national data bases?

The big question remains, who would have access to all that theater paraphernalia?

It took him a full day to realize she didn't know how to exit her room, that her intent at disassembling the access pad had been to make it work for her.

He stopped at the opposite side of the table, within reach if he chose, which she suspected he would if she so much as flinched toward the access pad.

Imagine a world where everyone on the planet has access to this expanded canvas of human expression that technology has created.

A round table in the center had an access pad attached to the top, so she passed her armband over it.

You have some access to data bases that could be helpful.

At least, she could when Gabriel let her access the portals again.

Access is provided by a ladder, communicating with a door about 20 ft.

All rooms offer air conditioning, mini bar, Internet access.

Dictators may think they can control information access and technology.

Para, Parnahyba, Parahyba, Santos and Rio Grande do Sul are river ports situated near the sea on rivers having the same name; but, with the exception of Path and Santos, they are difficult of access and are of secondary importance.

For the first time since being attacked, my mind began to access what happened and try to formulate a coherent response.

Worst of all, it had all been to gain access to money she could have had without protest.

It was as she neared a dead end that she saw the single door with two access pads, the only door with additional security in the wing.

He nodded to his advisor, who waved his wrist before the access pad.

Excited and nervous, Kiera crossed to it and waved her armband over the access pad.

Many vitreous rocks show alteration of this type in certain parts where either the glass has been of unstable nature or where agencies of change such as percolating water have had easiest access (as along joints, perlitic cracks and the margins of dikes and sills).

The best remedy in such cases is to prevent the air from gaining access to the coal by building a wall round the burning portion, which can in this way be isolated from the remainder of the working, and the fire prevented from spreading, even if it cannot be extinguished.