'access' definitions:
Definition of 'access'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
The right to obtain or make use of or take advantage of something (as services or membership)
noun
A way of entering or leaving; "he took a wrong turn on the access to the bridge" [syn: access, approach]
noun
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.) [syn: access, access code]
noun
(computer science) the operation of reading or writing stored information [syn: access, memory access]
noun
The act of approaching or entering; "he gained access to the building"
verb
Obtain or retrieve from a storage device; as of information on a computer
verb
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: access, get at]
Synonyms of 'access'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Jacksonian epilepsy,
- 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,
- Rasputin,
- reachableness,
- reception,
- reflex epilepsy,
- rise,
- Rolandic epilepsy,
- 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,
- Svengali,
- 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,
- VIP,
- visitation,
- waxing,
- way,
- way in,
- wheeler-dealer,
- widening,
- wire-puller