Meaning of access in English:

access

Pronunciation /ˈaksɛs/

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noun

1often access tomass noun The means or opportunity to approach or enter a place.
‘the staircase gives access to the top floor’
- ‘wheelchair access’
- ‘Two side entrances provide access to the back garden - one has double timber doors which lead to a carport.’
- ‘A covered side entrance provides access to the large walled rear garden, which also has an outside toilet.’
- ‘There is plumbing for a washing machine, and a side door provides access to the garden.’
- ‘Two side entrances offer access to the front and rear landscaped gardens.’
- ‘A side door will be opened by the Minster staff to give access to the side transept and the Chapter House.’
- ‘She used the wheelchair access to bring a buggy onto the strand but needed someone to physically lift the buggy onto the beach.’
- ‘They also slide to the side to make access to the rear seats easier.’
- ‘Now a £12,000 lift is being installed to allow wheelchair access to the garden.’
- ‘As well as the Tree House, there is full wheelchair access to the garden, shop, garden café and toilets.’
- ‘The launch also marked the completion of a new ramp providing wheelchair access to the building.’
- ‘It has off-street parking to the front for a couple of cars and double-gated side access to the back garden.’
- ‘Nor was the lack of wheelchair access to the newly-opened Mango shop missed.’
- ‘The wide ramp will give wheelchair access to the garden at the centre and the volunteers also concreted the shed area in the garden as well as giving the garden a tidy up.’
- ‘More than 70 tonnes of waste and spoil were taken from the site to achieve the levels required for wheelchair access to all parts of the garden.’
- ‘Each new shop with two levels will have an elevator, while there will be wheelchair access to the 14-screen cinema.’
- ‘A Sligo woman has called for wheelchair access to all election booths after she wasn't able to vote on Friday.’
- ‘A temporary lift has been installed enabling wheelchair access to one of the wonders of the world.’
- ‘The double bedroom to the rear has built-in louvre door wardrobes and access to the attic.’
- ‘There is side access to the south-west facing rear garden which measures 75 feet by 46 feet.’
- ‘A side gate provides vehicular access to the west facing back garden which is paved and gravelled for easy maintenance.’
entrance, entry, way in, means of entry, ingress
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1. 1.1The right or opportunity to use or benefit from something.
  ‘do you have access to a computer?’
  ‘awards to help people gain access to training’
  ‘It is not a policy issue as to whether people should have access to water or not, people are naturally entitled to have access.’
  ‘Ensure that next year's influx of students have access to properly funded clubs and resources.’
  ‘It's right and proper that teachers have access to the full process of judicial review, which by its thorough nature, will take time.’
  ‘That is the debate over whether illegal aliens should have access to health care and other benefits.’
  ‘He also asked officials if members would still have access to the community fund set up to benefit local groups in the town.’
  ‘But the report dismisses claims that Leeds is swamped by asylum seekers who have access to a wide range of benefits.’
  ‘He said across the country as few as one per cent of all those who could benefit from such care have access to it.’
  ‘They have access to health and life insurance through their employers, or at their own expense.’
  ‘These sections entitle everyone to have access to health care services provided by the state within its available resources.’
  ‘If the common people have access to those technologies, do you know what they will do?’
  ‘A benefit of this is that most sailors will now have access to more courses than those associated with their billet.’
  ‘In principle this meant developing countries should have the right to have access to cheap generic drugs.’
  ‘Operators have access to a wide range of information and experts within Defence.’
  ‘In particular, it recommends that all children should have access to publicly funded education from the age of three.’
  ‘The deal we're negotiating is for all universities to have access to all journals electronically.’
  ‘Officers on the Operation Delta squad have access to the latest computer technology to hunt for burglars.’
  ‘If people opt out of the NHS, why should they have access to public money to smooth their treatment?’
  ‘Women have the right to divorce, inherit property, conduct business and have access to knowledge.’
  ‘Now, who do you think would have access to the resources needed for a well organised covert operation like that?’
  use of, the use of, the opportunity to use, permission to use
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2. 1.2The right or opportunity to approach or see someone.
  ‘we were denied access to our grandson’
  ‘This group aims to support fathers who suffer after marital disputes, for example by being denied access to their children by the mother.’
  ‘At the same time union representatives were denied access to members and were not faxed requested safety reports.’
  ‘Ms. Stewart did not have her speech limited nor were students denied access to her as you suggest.’
  ‘Another parent was one of two fathers who was denied access to their children for years.’
  ‘This happened recently when she had just given birth in a local hospital and her husband was denied access to see the baby.’
  ‘He was released in August, but remained suspended from the exercise of his offices and was denied access to the Queen.’
  ‘Then in 1988, on a visit to the prison, she was denied access to her husband.’
  ‘In the meantime there are sources of support and advice for men denied access to their children by mothers.’
  ‘Straw has claimed that British consular staff were denied access to the detainees.’
  ‘During that time he was never told he was under arrest and was denied access to a solicitor.’
  ‘That he also will be denied access to his players in the dressing room before kick-off has led the manager to believe that he is being unduly punished.’
  ‘While held in Camp Delta, he was denied access to a lawyer and quizzed by the British Secret Service.’
  ‘In 1536 she died at Kimbolton House; she was in considerable pain due to cancer and had been denied access to her only daughter.’
  ‘Hishamudin ruled that their detention was unlawful and done in bad faith as they were denied access to family members and lawyers.’
  ‘Kujinga, who was initially denied access to his client, was finally allowed to see her by mid-afternoon.’
  ‘Being denied access to their fathers, through no doing of their own.’
  ‘The group Human Rights in China reported in May that Gao was being denied access to her attorneys.’
  ‘He was denied access to a solicitor for 24 hours, but his solicitor did not in fact see him until the day after the expiry of this period.’
  ‘Arising out of this Hernon was denied access to his daughter for three years.’
  ‘And now that this has happened, they insist that they have some right to have access to him.’
  ‘Most applications for access come from estranged fathers.’
  admission, admittance, entry, entrée, ingress, right of entry, permission to enter, the opportunity to enter
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3. 1.3The process of obtaining or retrieving information stored in a computer's memory.
  ‘this prevents unauthorized access or inadvertent deletion of the file’
  ‘Memory data accesses are hundreds of times faster than disk.’
  ‘This execution involves performing arithmetic and logical calculations, initiating memory accesses, and controlling the flow of program execution.’
  ‘Virtual Interface Architecture is a new method or establishing application-to-application remote memory accesses over a network.’
  ‘JAVA is a strongly typed language, and its virtual memory environment imposes a restriction on valid memory accesses.’
  ‘The window typically is narrow, only about 128MB or so, and any accesses to physical memory outside this window are not remapped.’
  ‘This provides minimal memory consumption, but accesses take more time due to the page faults handling.’
  ‘We knew that the processor would do a memory access at the time when the corruption would occur.’
  ‘The problem lies in conflicting accesses to a block of memory by both the AGP processor and the CPU.’
  ‘If we now call overbroad subpoenas an unauthorized access, then unwanted e-mail is a trespass.’
  ‘Lock fields are used to coordinate multi-thread and multi-user accesses.’
  ‘CC Winstone is running its scripts flat out, so any disk accesses will also likely hammer the CPU.’
  ‘The MM reads the page table entry and uses the VMA to find out whether the memory access is legal or not.’
  ‘Even an experienced programmer might have a hard time tracking down bugs caused by invalid accesses, overflowing writes, accesses to dead memory, memory leaks and the like.’
  ‘This is a Trojan designed to open a backdoor access to compromised computer.’
  ‘In some cases the value and utility of data is actually increasing as data ages even if the accesses to that data decline.’
  ‘For these applications, threads are needed to provide concurrent accesses to shared data.’
  ‘Storage bottlenecks occur when the business encounters a combination of repetitive file accesses, and large program and data files that strain storage resources.’
  ‘In real life, you'd rarely see the hard drive hammered in this way - most of the time, disk accesses occur relatively infrequently, or only last for relatively short periods of time.’
  ‘In theory the larger cache improves performance because there is a reduction in the number of physical accesses to the disk.’
  ‘He is suspected of breaking Japanese laws prohibiting unauthorised computer access.’
4. 1.4as modifier Denoting broadcasting produced by minority and specialist interest groups, rather than by professionals.
  ‘access television’
  ‘The evolution of access broadcasting has produced a different kind of anxiety.’
  ‘The forum will be aired on local public access television prior to Election Day.’
2 literary in singular An attack or outburst of an emotion.
‘I was suddenly overcome with an access of rage’
- ‘Either a solution has presented itself or I've had an access of strength and energy which has been enough to get me through.’
- ‘In an access of wonderment, I had to tell someone of these discoveries.’
- ‘His great physical force still sustained him; and, in an access of energy that was fearfully allied to madness, he rushed forward into the vortex of snow and hail.’
- ‘ In an access of rage, he ordered those who opposed him to quit.’
- ‘The night was brief and terrible as in an access of fever, and I lay shaking and chattering in the burning bed.’
fit, attack, bout, outpouring, eruption, explosion, outburst, burst, outbreak, flare-up, blow-up, blaze, spasm, paroxysm, seizure, rush
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verb

[with object]

1Approach or enter (a place)
‘single rooms have private facilities accessed via the balcony’
- ‘The private car park is accessed via remote controlled gates.’
- ‘The site is accessed via the Dunmore Road and is around two miles from the city centre.’
- ‘A signed diversion route will also be in place for drivers wanting to access the village via the A64.’
- ‘The dining room is accessed from this wing via the kitchen.’
- ‘The school fears the sports pitches would be damaged if the machinery accessed the site via the main school entrance.’
- ‘Mill Lane is accessed through wrought-iron gates flanked by stone pillars.’
- ‘The High Court grants Shell the right to access private lands in the village for the installation of the pipeline.’
- ‘The living room is accessed via a lobby with understairs storage.’
- ‘The living and dining room are also accessed via steps from the hallway.’
- ‘The adjoining family room is accessed via a short flight of steps and can also be entered from the front garden.’
- ‘The auctioneers expressed satisfaction with the price obtained given the fact that the land was accessed via a lengthy right of way.’
- ‘This three-bedroom penthouse apartment is on the third floor of a low-level block and is accessed via a private lift.’
- ‘All of the apartments are entered via D' Olier Street and are accessed via an impressive marble entrance lobby.’
- ‘People were encouraged to use public transport and the park-and-ride facility at Black Ash to access the city.’
- ‘150 new jobs are set to be created and the project is also set to reduce congestion, not only on the major motorways accessing the region but also local roads.’
- ‘Secondly you accessed an area which you had no authority to enter.’
- ‘In addition a large number of people need to access the town centre on a daily basis.’
- ‘People who live on the village's Main Street and part of York Road will be charged to access the grassed areas of common land that front their homes.’
- ‘You may say ‘but they have a right to use these roads to access their fields’.’
- ‘People are choosing to access the city centre but they are doing it in more sustainable ways, to the benefit of all.’
2Obtain or retrieve (computer data or a file)
‘information can be accessed from several files and displayed at the same time’
- ‘The lack of protection means that e-mails and sensitive computer files can be accessed by hackers using little more than a laptop and an antenna.’
- ‘For example, today you can access Microsoft file servers with a Samba client.’
- ‘When the user accesses the file, online archiving retrieves that data twice as fast as it was compressed.’
- ‘When I go to the Macintosh, I can see the Linux server and access any file I want from it.’
- ‘After glancing at his watch he flipped on the computer and tried to access some old files.’
- ‘If the Linux machine can access the remote files, all archiving is done with the zip command.’
- ‘The entire network can be accessed from a laptop computer from any mechanical room or from the new building operation command center.’
- ‘I have several people using this computer and would like to know how to access chat files.’
- ‘The present invention relates to electronic books that are accessed over a computer network, such as the Internet.’
- ‘I activated my small desktop computer and accessed the Official State Dictionary.’
- ‘Therefore, when Windows accesses this file the next time, it must look in multiple locations on your hard drive to retrieve the individual file.’
- ‘Still another advantage of consolidated storage is that the centrally located data can be accessed from other computers.’
- ‘Also in the menu is the status on Open Files, just showing what files are currently being accessed on the NAS and who is accessing them.’
- ‘In an attempt to clean out old and/or unnecessary files, I accessed my Winzip files.’
- ‘A NAS server allows users to access files and images just like a typical network drive.’
- ‘This enabled the FBI to find his password to access the encrypted files.’
- ‘Additionally, when a user or application attempts to access an archived file, a time lag occurs.’
- ‘Suppliers also get the benefit of accessing the database to find out what operators are selling in different parts of the country.’
- ‘The benefits of remotely accessing your PC from the road are numerous, but the bottom line is that it enables you to use your computer from the road like you never left home.’
- ‘So my poor server is trying to make big changes while lots and lots and lots of people are trying to access it.’
retrieve, gain, gain access to, acquire, obtain
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Origin

Middle English (in the sense ‘sudden attack of illness’): from Latin accessus, from the verb accedere ‘to approach’ (see accede). access (sense 1 of the noun) is first recorded in the early 17th century.