 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
access
noun
1: the right to enter [syn: {entree}, {accession}, {admittance}]
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; "he took a wrong turn on the
access to the bridge" [syn: {approach}]
4: (computer science) the operation of reading or writing
stored information [syn: {memory access}]
5: the act of approaching or entering; "he gained access to the
building"
verb
1: obtain or retrieve from a storage device; as of information
on a computer
2: reach or gain access to; "How does one access the attic in
this house?"; "I cannot get to the T.V. antenna, even if I
climb on the roof" [syn: {get at}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Access \Ac*cess"\ (#; 277), noun [F. acc['e]s, L. accessus, fr.
accedere. See {Accede}.]
1. A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission;
accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince.
I did repel his letters, and denied
His access to me. --Shak.
2. The means, place, or way by which a thing may be
approached; passage way; as, the access is by a neck of
land. ''All access was thronged.'' --Milton.
3. Admission to sexual intercourse.
During coverture, access of the husband shall be
presumed, unless the contrary be shown.
--Blackstone.
4. Increase by something added; addition; as, an access of
territory. [In this sense accession is more generally
used.]
I, from the influence of thy looks, receive
Access in every virtue. --Milton.
5. An onset, attack, or fit of disease.
The first access looked like an apoplexy. --Burnet.
6. A paroxysm; a fit of passion; an outburst; as, an access
of fury. [A Gallicism]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
299 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
Access
1. An English-like query language used in the
{Pick} {operating system}.
2. {Microsoft Access}.
(1994-11-08)
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