access

1. 1.

   obtain or retrieve from a storage device; as of information on a computer

   Broaderrecover

   Narroweraddresslog in

   computer science

2. 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”

   Synonymsget at

   Broaderreach

Other forms of access

plural

accesses·

past tense

accessed·

present participle

accessing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about access

What does access mean?

access means "the right to enter". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in access?

access has 2 syllables: ac-cess. The stress falls on "ac". In IPA it is /ˈækˌsɛs/.

What is another word for access?

Close synonyms include entree, accession, admission, admittance, approach. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is access a common word?

access is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with access?

9 words rhyme with access. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.