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Noun access has 5 senses
- entree, access, accession, admittance - the right to enter
--1 is a kind of right
--1 has particulars: door
- access - the right to obtain or make use of or take advantage of something (as services or membership)
--2 is a kind of right
- access, approach - a way of entering or leaving; "he took a wrong turn on the access to the bridge"
--3 is a kind of way
--3 has particulars: entrance, entranceway, entryway, entry, entree
- access, memory access - (computer science) the operation of reading or writing stored information
--4 is a kind of operation
--4 has particulars: disk access
- access - the act of approaching or entering; "he gained access to the building"
--5 is a kind of approach, approaching, coming
--5 has particulars: back door
Verb access has 2 senses
- access - obtain or retrieve from a storage device; as of information on a computer
--1 is one way to recover, retrieve, find, regain
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- access, get at - 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"
--2 is one way to reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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