Let
[let] or [lɛt]
Definition
(noun.) a serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court; the ball must be served again.
(verb.) leave unchanged; 'let it be'.
(verb.) actively cause something to happen; 'I let it be known that I was not interested'.
(verb.) make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen; 'This permits the water to rush in'; 'This sealed door won't allow the water come into the basement'; 'This will permit the rain to run off'.
Typist: Psyche--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose.
(n.) A retarding; hindrance; obstacle; impediment; delay; -- common in the phrase without let or hindrance, but elsewhere archaic.
(n.) A stroke in which a ball touches the top of the net in passing over.
(imp. & p. p.) of Let
(v. t.) To leave; to relinquish; to abandon.
(v. t.) To consider; to think; to esteem.
(v. t.) To cause; to make; -- used with the infinitive in the active form but in the passive sense; as, let make, i. e., cause to be made; let bring, i. e., cause to be brought.
(v. t.) To permit; to allow; to suffer; -- either affirmatively, by positive act, or negatively, by neglecting to restrain or prevent.
(v. t.) To allow to be used or occupied for a compensation; to lease; to rent; to hire out; -- often with out; as, to let a farm; to let a house; to let out horses.
(v. t.) To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; -- often with out; as, to let the building of a bridge; to let out the lathing and the plastering.
(v. i.) To forbear.
(v. i.) To be let or leased; as, the farm lets for $500 a year. See note under Let, v. t.
Editor: Ryan
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Allow, permit, suffer, give leave to, give permission to.[2]. Lease, put to hire.
n. Hinderance, impediment, obstacle, obstruction.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Hinder, Above
SYN:Permit, allow, suffer
ANT:Prevent, hinder
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Definition
v.t. (B.) to prevent.—n. (law) hinderance obstruction: delay.—n. Let′ter.
v.t. to slacken or loose restraint upon: to give leave or power to: to allow permit suffer: to grant to a tenant or hirer: to cause (with infin. without to):—pr.p. let′ting; pa.t. and pa.p. let.—n. a letting for hire.—ns. Let′ter; Let′ting.—Let alone to leave out not to mention.—adj. passive inactive—also n. (Shak.) forbearance.—Let blood to open a vein and let the blood run out; Let down to allow to fall: to bring down; Let go to cease holding: to pass by or disregard; Let in to allow to enter: to take in or swindle; Let into to admit to the knowledge of; Let off to allow to go free without punishment to excuse from payment &c.; Let on to allow a thing to be believed to pretend; Let one's self loose to let go restraint on words or actions to indulge in extravagant talk or conduct; Let out to allow to get free to let some secret become known; Let slip to allow to escape: to lose sight of; Let well alone to let things remain as they are from fear of making them worse.
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Examples
- Let them turn into mechanisms, let them. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Let them come! Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Let it suffice h ere to state that Rutherford assumes that the greater mass of the atom consis ts o f negatively charged particles rotating about a positive nucle us. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- And then let us be going. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Mr. Rochester, let me look at your face: turn to the moonlight. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- They would not yet let me go: I must sit down and write before them. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Let her footstep, as she comes and goes, in these pages, be like that other footstep to whose airy fall your own heart once beat time. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I say that these monstrous laws of yours will bring a curse upon the land--God will not let such wickedness endure. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Let us enjoy five minutes of instructive conversation with her. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- If I were to let her come, he said to himself, I should have to let her go again. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- And letting down the side-glass to distinguish, 'Tis Crawford's, Crawford's barouche, I protest! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Instead of letting go he drew her closer to him. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- After letting all that time go by me, what good could come of it? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Private enterprise, therefore, so far from bothering about the public need of housing, did nothing but corner and speculate in rents and sub-letting. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Then, letting her hand fall on the table, she said in another tone--Yet what miserable men find such things, and work at them, and sell them! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- By not letting the brine get old, or by keeping plenty of salt on it, the meat could be kept in this way for several months, but would be available for use at any time. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- By not letting in Mrs. Yeobright. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- You're letting in a devil of a draught here! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- In the meantime, take no step without letting me know. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Christian drew a deep breath without letting it expand his body, and Humphrey said, Where has it been seen? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Papa often lets me open the letter-bag and give him out the contents. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Meg is a great comfort to me and lets me have jelly every night at tea its so good for me Jo says because it keeps me sweet tempered. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- He lets no one stand in the way of such self-gratification; but whether you are an obstacle or not remains to be seen. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Well, said Aunt Chloe, s'pose dere will; but de Lord lets drefful things happen, sometimes. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She skips; she runs along regular enough till half-past eleven, and then, all of a sudden, she lets down. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I'm glad Laurie seems so happy and busy, that he has given up smoking and lets his hair grow. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Why everybody lets him alone enough, for the matter of that. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Yes, Ellen was called away yesterday: she lets us call her Ellen, you know. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- It not only lets occasions for thinking go unused, but it swamps thinking. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I'm in the Lord's hands, said Tom; nothin' can go no furder than he lets it;--and thar's _one_ thing I can thank him for. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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