Admit
[əd'mɪt]
Definition
(verb.) declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of; 'He admitted his errors'; 'She acknowledged that she might have forgotten'.
(verb.) allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of; 'admit someone to the profession'; 'She was admitted to the New Jersey Bar'.
(verb.) allow to enter; grant entry to; 'We cannot admit non-members into our club building'; 'This pipe admits air'.
(verb.) serve as a means of entrance; 'This ticket will admit one adult to the show'.
(verb.) give access or entrance to; 'The French doors admit onto the yard'.
(verb.) afford possibility; 'This problem admits of no solution'; 'This short story allows of several different interpretations'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause.
(v. t.) To give a right of entrance; as, a ticket admits one into a playhouse.
(v. t.) To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise; as, to admit an attorney to practice law; the prisoner was admitted to bail.
(v. t.) To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny; to own or confess; as, the argument or fact is admitted; he admitted his guilt.
(v. t.) To be capable of; to permit; as, the words do not admit such a construction. In this sense, of may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Receive, grant entrance to, let in, take in, open the door to.[2]. Concede, accept, grant, acknowledge, own, confess, take for granted, agree to, accede to, acquiesce in.[3]. Permit, allow, bear, admit of, be capable of.
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Definition
v.t. to allow to enter: to let in: to concede: to acknowledge: to be capable of:—pr.p. admit′ting; pa.p. admit′ted.—n. Admissibil′ity.—adj. Admis′sible that may be admitted or allowed (generally or specially as legal proof).—ns. Admis′sion Admit′tance the act of admitting: anything admitted or conceded: leave to enter.—adj. Admit′table that may be admitted.—adv. Admit′tedly.
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Examples
- That natural selection generally act with extreme slowness I fully admit. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- I admit that I do press it, and I must beg you to forgive me if I do so, very earnestly. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- But the gypsies have many laws they do not admit to having. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I cannot but in some sense admit the force of this reasoning, which I yet hope to traverse by the following considerations. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The first wave is past, and the argument is compelled to admit that men and women have common duties and pursuits. Plato. The Republic.
- Simple perceptions or impressions and ideas are such as admit of no distinction nor separation. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Don't ever admit that. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- This thrown open, admitted him to his own private apartment of three rooms: his bed-chamber and two others. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- And particularly, whether they were ever admitted as members in the lower senate? Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- They were admitted by a confederate inside the house. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The world of sense is still depreciated and identified with opinion, though admitted to be a shadow of the true. Plato. The Republic.
- The path just admitted three. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I was not expected, for she left me locked in the yard, while she went to ask if I were to be admitted. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- A small green court was the whole of its demesne in front; and a neat wicket gate admitted them into it. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Now, things are wholly changed, and almost every naturalist admits the great principle of evolution. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Gibbon, because of his anti-Christian animus, is hostile to Constantine; but he admits that he was temperate and chaste. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He addresses this to the astounded Tony, who admits the soft impeachment. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- My page who admits patients is a new boy and by no means quick. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He admits it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He admits that he was alone on the scene of the murder within a few minutes of its commission. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Mr. Weevle admits that he has been wrong and begs Mr. William Guppy to think no more about it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- This one acted as your engager, and then found that he could not find you an employer without admitting a third person into his plot. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- One of Boyle's critics, a professor at Louvain, while admitting that air had weight and elasticity, denie d that these were sufficient to account for the results ascribed to them. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The picturesque would be spoilt by admitting a fourth. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- A new company was proposed, and prevented only by admitting a number of new partners. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Shirley seemed about to reply, but here the schoolroom door unclosed, admitting Mr. Sympson. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I should have thought your self respect and your Porter pride would have shrunk from admitting, even to yourself, that you were a bought woman. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Even admitting that the size and weight of his low-tension conductors necessitated putting them underground, this argues nothing against the propriety and sanity of his methods. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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