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Definitions: Allow |
AllowVerb1. 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". 2. Give permission; "She permitted her son to visit her estranged husband"; "I won't let the police search her basement"; "I cannot allow you to see your exam". 3. Let have; "grant permission"; "Mandela was allowed few visitors in prison". 4. Give or assign a share of money or time to a particular person or cause; "I will earmark this money for your research". 5. Make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain; "This leaves no room for improvement"; "The evidence allows only one conclusion"; "allow for mistakes"; "leave lots of time for the trip". 6. Allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something; "I allow for this possibility"; "The seamstress planned for 5% shrinkage after the first wash". 7. Afford possibility: "This problem admits of no solution"; "This short story allows of several different interpretations". 8. Allow the other team to score: "give up a run", in baseball. 9. Grant as a discount or in exchange; "The camera store owner allowed me $50 on my old camera". 10. : allow the presence of; "We don't allow dogs here"; "Children are not permitted beyond this point". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "allow" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
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Language | To give or to assign as a share or a suitable amount of time. . . to a particular person. Source: European Union. (references) |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Guess, Reckon, Calculate, Allow. "I guess he is not going to vote to-day." "I reckon we are going to have fair weather now." "I calculate this ground would grow good potatoes." "I allow she's the prettiest girl that ever visited these parts." The foregoing sentences may be improved by recasting them. "I think he is not going to (or will not) vote to-day." "I believe we shall now have fair weather." "I suppose this ground would yield fine potatoes." "I regard her as the handsomest lady that has ever visited this place (or neighborhood, or locality). Source: Slips of Speech. |
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Synonyms: AllowSynonyms: admit (v), allow for (v), appropriate (v), countenance (v), earmark (v), give up (v), grant (v), leave (v), let (v), permit (v), provide for (v), reserve (v), set aside (v), take into account (v). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: deny (v), forbid (v), prevent (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Assent | Acknowledge, own, admit, allow, avow, confess; concede; (yield); come round to; abide by; permit. |
Belief | Make oneself easy about, on that score; take on trust, take on credit; take for granted, take for gospel; allow some weight to, attach some weight to. |
Consent | Verb: consent; assent; yield assent, admit, allow, concede, grant, yield; come round, come over; give into, acknowledge, agnize, give consent, comply with, acquiesce, agree to, fall in with, accede, accept, embrace an offer, close with, take at one's word, have no objection. |
Disclosure | Acknowledge, allow, concede, grant, admit, own, own up to, confess, avow, throw off all disguise, turn inside out, make a clean breast; show one's hand, show one's cards; unburden one's mind, disburden one's mind, disburden one's conscience, disburden one's heart; open one's mind, lay bare one's mind, tell a piece of one's mind; unbosom oneself, own to the soft impeachment; say the truth, speak the truth; turn King's (or Queen's) evidence; acknowledge the corn. |
Discount | Verb: discount, bate; abate, rebate; reduce, price down, mark down take off, allow, give, make allowance; tax. |
Discrimination | Take into account, take into consideration; give due weight to, allow due weight to; weigh carefully. |
Forgiveness | Verb: forgive, forgive and forget; pardon, condone, think no more of, let bygones be bygones, shake hands; forget an injury. excuse, pass over, overlook; wink at; (neglect); bear with; allow for, make allowances for; let one down easily, not be too hard upon, pocket the affront. |
Freedom | Set free; (liberate); give a loose to; (permit); allow scope; n. to, give scope; n. to; give a horse his head. |
Giving | Make a present; allow, contribute, subscribe, furnish its quota. |
Lenity | Indulge, allow one to have his own way, spoil. |
Loss | Verb: lose; incur a loss, experience a loss, meet with a loss; miss; mislay, let slip, allow to slip through the fingers; be without; (exempt) a; forfeit. |
Permission | Verb: permit; give permission; Noun: give power; let, allow, admit; suffer, bear with, tolerate, recognize; concede; accord, vouchsafe, favor, humor, gratify, indulge, stretch a point; wink at, connive at; shut one's eyes to. |
Qualification | Allow for, make allowance for; admit exceptions, take into account; modulate. |
Untimeliness | Lose an opportunity, throw away an opportunity, waste an opportunity, neglect; an opportunity; allow the opportunity to pass, suffer the opportunity to pass, allow the opportunity to slip, suffer the opportunity to slip, allow the opportunity to go by, suffer the opportunity to go by, allow the opportunity to escape, suffer the opportunity to escape, allow the opportunity to lapse, suffer the opportunity to lapse, allow the occasion to pass, allow the occasion to slip by; waste time; (be inactive); let slip through the fingers, lock the barn door after the horse is stolen. |
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Crosswords: Allow |
| English words defined with "allow": allow in. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "allow": Allocate, Allocatur ♦ Desinent ♦ LAT, locus. (references) |
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Screenplays | And they won't allow it because I raise issues. (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman) Allow me to introduce you to the airlock chamber. (Moonraker; writing credit: Christopher Wood) Do you have any control over how creepy you allow yourself to get? (As Good As It Gets; writing credit: Mark Andrus) Why is that? Because money's most powerful ability is to allow bad people to continue doing bad things at the expense of those who don't have it. (Sneakers; writing credit: Phil Alden Robinson, Lawrence Lasker, and Walter F. Parkes.) However, I must warn you, mademoiselle: Do not allow evil into your heart, it will make a home there. (Death on the Nile; writing credit: Agatha Christie; Anthony Shaffer) | |
Lyrics | It was more than all your laws allow (It's all coming back to me now; performing artist: Celine Dion) Got a bank account bigger than the law should allow (Incomplete; performing artist: Sisqo) Allow, if your still alive, six to eight years to arrive (WALKIN' ON THE SUN; performing artist: Smash Mouth) That time will not allow us to forget (Sir Duke; performing artist: Stevie Wonder) | |
Clever | Alimony: Funds which allow a woman who lived unhappily married to live happily unmarried. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Momma Don't Allow (1955) | |
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 | Shown is a PET scan (positron emission tomography) of a 17 year old girl with a longstanding history of epilepsy, who has a brain tumor classified as a grade 1 astrocytoma. The PET scan indicates that the tumor is not metabolizing excess glucose and is therefore benign. PET scans allow doctors to tell if a tumor is malignant without resorting to a surgical biopsy.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Humpback whale's - Megaptera novaeangliae - tail - distinctive markings allow identification of individual.Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |
 | Cut through Mississippi River levee to allow fresh water to flow into adjacent cypress swamp.Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | The 15th Avenue Bridge opening to allow the NOAA Ship RONALD H. BROWN passage into Lake Union.Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Public boat ramps allow easy access to America's recreational fisheries.Credit: Fisheries. |  | This is an image that shows Barren Island after the restoration work was completed. Dredge material was placed to support the planting. The planting was conducted to allow the marsh to fill in and establish itself before the geotube disintegrated. Prior to the restoration, this area was a high-energy shallow water environment.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | A close-up view of the tide gate from the Delaware River side shows the flat valves near low tide. The water is flowing out of Army Creek, the tide gates are open and debris that plugs the openings can be clearly seen. The restoration work will target modification of the flood gates to allow better passage for anadromous species.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Berm Removal/ After -- The Northwest Berm was taken down to its natural elevation to allow tidal flushing and the natural re-introduction of mangroves through the area.Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Experimental recompression chambers allow studies of hyperbaric conditions.Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | Figure 22. The Thor ring-trawl net used in deep water. Devised by Johannes Schmidt in 1905 and used for carrying out studies on board the THOR. This net was used to capture fish in very deep water. It was first tested in waters between 1040 and 1090 meters depth off SW Ireland. The ring was originally made in one piece but George Hansen designed it in two to allow it to fold up.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Barrow | We should allow other's excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own. |
Benjamin Franklin | A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance. |
Confucius | When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it -- this is knowledge. |
Elbert Hubbard | Allow motion to equal emotion. |
Giovanni Boccaccio | While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman. |
Horace Bushnell | Anxiety is a word of unbelief or unreasoning dread. We have no right to allow it. Full faith in God puts it to rest. |
Napoleon Bonaparte | Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. |
Richard Feynman | If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain. |
Samuel Johnson | Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging. |
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John Locke | 1690 | In these cases Barclay, the great champion of absolute monarchy, is forced to allow, that a king may be resisted, and ceases to be a king. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | In particular they will be forbidden to instruct or exercise their members or to allow them to be instructed or exercised, in the profession or use of arms. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | I can therefore allow my mind, with the experience of a lifetime, to play over the problems which beset us on the morrow of our absolute victory in arms, and to try to make sure with what strength I have that what has been gained with so much sacrifice and suffering shall be preserved for the future glory and safety of mankind. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1956) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | She absolutely refused to allow me, which I then thought most unreasonable. |
Alice in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | And this Alice would not allow, without knowing how old it was, and as the Lory positively refused to tell its age, there was no more to be said. |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Allow me to ask your pardon. |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Bypasses are devices which allow some people to drive from point A to point B very fast whilst other people dash from point B to point A very fast. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | I do not allow myself to be entangled with nonsense. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | It is good bait sometimes, I allow. |
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Health | Time will not allow me to describe all forms of muscular dystrophy. (references) | |
When at rest, the vocal folds are open to allow an individual to breathe. (references) | ||
Don't allow your cats and dogs to wander freely or to capture and eat rodents. (references) | ||
Business | It will allow faster transmission of WAP-based applications. (references) | |
Prepaid GSM telephone cards allow anyone to have a mobile phone. (references) | ||
Labor regulations allow contracts only for adult foreign workers. (references) | ||
Children | Thailand | Parents who allow a child to enter the trade also are punishable. (references) |
Thailand | However, some judges refused to allow video testimony in their courts. (references) | |
India | The course work is intended to allow these children to enter mainstream schooling. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Yemen | The trial was suspended to allow Ba Sharahil to undergo medical treatment. (references) |
Korea | Broad interpretations of the NSL allow for restrictions on peaceful dissent. (references) | |
Sri Lanka | The LTTE does not allow freedom of association in the areas that it controls. (references) | |
Discrimination | Namibia | During a March 19 speech at the University of Namibia, President Nujoma announced that "the Republic of Namibia does not allow homosexuality or lesbianism here. (references) |
Economic History | Poland | Polish law does not allow interim dividends. (references) |
Hong Kong | China will also allow foreign investment in Internet services. (references) | |
Human Rights | Hungary | Some programs allow prisoners to spend weekends at home. (references) |
Paraguay | The armed forces no longer allow 17-year-olds to enlist with parental permission. (references) | |
Oman | Judges occasionally intercede to ensure that security officials allow such visits. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Philippines | The law requires a process of informed consultation and written consent by the indigenous group to allow mining on tribal lands. (references) |
Canada | Disputes over native fishing rights in Atlantic Canada continued after a 1999 Supreme Court ruling on the Marshall case which interpreted centuries-old treaties to allow First Nations to earn a moderate livelihood from natural resources, in compliance with government regulations that promote conservation and protect others who depend on the same resource. (references) | |
Australia | In March 2000, the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) expressed serious concern that the Government's Native Title amendments would allow the states and territories to pass legislation containing provisions "reducing further the protection of native title claimants." The CERD declared "unsatisfactory" the Government's response to concerns about the Native Title regime expressed in 1999. The Government responded later that year that the laws were passed after full debate in a democratically elected legislature and that the states have a sovereign right to determine land use policy. (references) | |
Minorities | Israel and the occupied territories | In 1997 a special interministerial panel recommended that the Government allow the villagers to return to Bir Am and Ikrit. (references) |
Switzerland | Roma complaints included their exclusion from more camping sites, which do not allow or which limit the number of Roma allowed on the site. (references) | |
Zimbabwe | Muslims have complained of discrimination by private employers who refuse to allow them sufficient time to worship at their mosques on Fridays. (references) | |
Political Economy | Sudan | In some cases, courts have refused to allow certain lawyers to represent defendants. (references) |
MEXICO | The procedures allow expansion of the ownership of a NOM certificate to more than one importer. (references) | |
MEXICO | Mexico does allow private, including foreign, ownership and operation of electric power plants. (references) | |
Political Rights | Algeria | Further, televised parliamentary debates aired uncensored and uncut allow all parties access to the electronic media. (references) |
Brunei | Meetings between senior government officials and mukim representatives allow for airing of local grievances and concerns. (references) | |
Malaysia | For the November 1999 elections, the Election Commission changed some procedures to allow better monitoring by Election Commission officers. (references) | |
Trade | India | The GOI does not allow advance payment for goods to be imported. (references) |
Mexico | Red clause L.C.s allow payment to the before actual shipment of the goods. (references) | |
Bolivia | Both certificates will allow foreign insecticides to be freely sold in the local market. (references) | |
Travel | Albania | Refusing to allow a person to pay for you when you have been invited is considered rude. (references) |
Turkey | It is usually important to allow time for friendly conversation before commencing with a business agenda. (references) | |
Barbados | A new telecommunications law should allow U.S. telephone service providers to operate in Barbados in 2001. (references) | |
Women | Oman | The quota system is expected to allow women to constitute a majority in some other departments. (references) |
Kenya | However, constitutional provisions allow only males to transmit automatically citizenship to their children. (references) | |
Ukraine | The Criminal Code outlaws rape and "forced sex with a materially dependent person," which may allow prosecution for spousal rape. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Singapore | Many contracts allow only 1 day off per month. (references) |
Nepal | Border guards commonly accept bribes to allow contraband and trafficked girls in or out of the country. (references) | |
Bahamas | In April a court of appeal ordered City Markets, Ltd. to allow its workers to join the union of their choice. (references) | |
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Dan Rather | Well, I'm not sure you can't be. You couldn't be at CBS News. The culture at CBS News wouldn't allow such a person to come to the anchor chair. |
David Berkowitz | I don't know. I don't know. I pray everyday for those that lost loved ones. And I pray that God would touch their lives and allow them to heal as much as possible. |
Gloria Allred | There's a new law that's going to take effect in January, kind of, amending the old son of Sam law. And it will allow convicted murderers to write a book, but the victims should be the ones that profit from any book, if there are profits. |
Linda Zamsky-Katz | Of course. We all do. But we're more sad and we're hurting right now. We can't allow that to overtake our lives. We're going to get through this. |
Rush Limbaugh | Do not allow this little blip in our market to turn you against capitalism. |
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George Washington | 1789-1797 | Allow me, moreover, to hope that it will be a favorite policy with you, not merely to secure a payment of the interest of the debt funded, but as far and as fast as the growing resources of the country will permit to exonerate it of the principal itself. |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | America will never allow that parliament has any authority to alter their constitution at all. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Circumstances permitted us to allow the time necessary for their more solid construction. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | Give us, we pray, the power to discern clearly right from wrong, and allow all our words and actions to be governed thereby, and by the laws of this land. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Our people trust their government, and we assure our people and world public opinion that the Soviet Government will not allow itself to be provoked. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | We are determined that the Export-Import Bank can allow commercial credits to Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia, as well as to Romania and Yugoslavia. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | I urge quick action on the necessary legislation to allow commercial production at the Elk Hills, California, Naval Petroleum Reserve. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | It's time to allow families to deduct the interest they pay on student loans. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | The new NATO force will allow reconstruction and reconciliation to accelerate. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | And we will not allow any terrorist or tyrant to threaten civilization with weapons of mass murder. |
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| "Allow" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 75.26% of the time. "Allow" is used about 11,457 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 75.26% | 8,622 | 1,113 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 24.7% | 2,830 | 3,269 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.04% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11,457 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "allow": allow back ♦ allow bail ♦ allow due weight to ♦ allow for ♦ allow for tare ♦ allow for unexpected expenses ♦ allow in ♦ allow me to point out a few mistakes ♦ allow me! ♦ allow of ♦ allow one inch for the margin ♦ allow one to have his own way ♦ allow oneself ♦ allow oneself smth. ♦ allow out ♦ allow repayment by installments ♦ allow repayment by instalments ♦ allow some weight to ♦ allow the dust to settle ♦ allow through ♦ allow time ♦ allow to approach ♦ allow to slip through the fingers ♦ allow to stagnate ♦ To allow of. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "allow": and-allow, drying-allow. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Afrikaan | laat (late, leave, let, release, tardy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pranoj (accept, acknowledge, admit, adopt, agree, avouch, buy, concede, confess, countenance, grant, own, permit, receive, recognize, take, take in, take on, underwrite, wear), marr parasysh (consider, reckon on, reckon with, regard, take into account, take into consideration), llogarit (account, calculate, count, determine, figure, figure on, number, numerate, reckon, score, weigh up), llogaris (account, calculate, cast, compute, count, determine, figure, figure on, find, number, numerate, reckon, score, weigh up), lejoj (admit, authorise, authorize, let, license, permit, sanction, suffer, tolerate), lë (break off, chuck, cut, drop, dump, give up, grant, jilt, jump, leave, let, let by, Miss, omit, overjump, overleap, Park, pass up, permit, put, quit, release, relinquish, resign, tek pupa, vacate, yield), jap (accord, adjudge, administer, afford, assign, award, bear, bestow, come through, concede, deliver, dish, dispense, furnish, get through, give, give in, hand in, impart, land, lend, pay, present, produce, provide, reach, throw, vouchsafe, yield). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فرد (consign, demarcation, design, individual, isolate, one, person, personage, seclude, single, sole), منح (accord, afford, award, bestow, bless with, concede, confer, contribute to, donate, endow, endue, favor with, favour with, gift with, give, grant, granting, present, presentation), نقص (cut, cut down, decrease, deficiency, depress, deprivation, detract, diminish, diminution, disadvantage, drawback, failing, famish, flaw, gap, imperfection, incompetence, insufficiency, knock off, lack, lessen, limit, lower, paucity, rareness, reduce, reduction, retrench, revocation, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, thin), سمح ل, سمح (allowed, authorise, authorize, go ahead, let, permit, pliable, see, suffer, warrant), سلم (accept, admit, agree, commit, consign, deliver, give in, grant, hand over, hierarchy, ladder, postulate, presume, recognize, render, resign, rung, salaam, salute, scale, secure, stair, staircase, stairway, submit, transmit, turn in, turn over), خصص (allocate, appropriate, assign, consign, designate, destine, detail, devote, earmark, give, particularize, spare, specify), إعترف (acknowledge, admit, avow, come clean, concede, confess, grant, own, own up, profess, recognize, say), أجاز (accredit, clear, endorse, indorse, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimize, licence, license, patent, permit, sanction, steam roller, vouchsafe, warrant), أدخل (bill, come in, heel, inject, insert, introduce, let in, press, put in, send in, show in, slot, squeeze, take in, yield). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разрешавам (authorise, authorize, determine, knit up, let, licence, license, pass, permit, provide for, resolve, sanction, suffer), определям (allot, assign, characterize, define, design, determine, fix, give, govern, identify, intend, lay, mark down, modify, name, nominate, pigeonhole, pitch, prescribe, qualify, set down, settle, spot, state), признавам (accept, accredit, acknowledge, admit, avow, concede, confess, find, homologate, own, profess, recognize, vote), приемам (accept, acknowledge, admit, adopt, assume, buy, concede, cotton, embrace, enrol, enroll, entertain, grant, induct, meet, postulate, premise, purchase, receive, recognize, see, stomach, take up, uphold, yield), позволявам (admit, authorise, authorize, enable, have, let, licence, license, permit, see, suffer), изплащам (clear, disburse, discharge, expiate, lift, liquidate, meet, pay, pay away, pay out, pay up, repay, settle, sink, take up), допускам (accept, admit, assume, bear, concede, permit, suppose, tolerate), давам (accommodate, accord, adduce, administer, afford, award, bring forth, commit, confer, delegate, dig up, endow, gave, give, give in, given, grant, hand out, hold, hold out, kick in, pass, pay, present, produce, put up, render, send, set, show). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Catalan | permetre (accord, admit, afford, permit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 聽 (hear, let, listen, obey), 得 (a sentence particle used after a verb to show effect, contented, degree or possibility, finished, gain, get, must, obtain, ought to, permit, proper, proud, ready, suitable, to have to, to need to), 准许 (Allowed, Allowing, licensed, Licensing, Permit, Permitted, Permitting), 容許 (permit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cornish | gasa (to allow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | tvrdit (allege, argue, assert, aver, claim, predicate, represent, submit, sustain, urge), strpìt (Brook, stand, take), slevit (make a reduction, rebate), povolit (authorize, ease away, ease off, fail, give, give in, grant, permit, relent, sanction, slacken, yield), dovolit (consent, leave, let, permit, tolerate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tillade (accord, admit, afford, enable, permit), løslade (leave, let, release). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | laten schieten (leave, let, release), laten begaan (leave, let, release), laten (cause, fail, get, leave, let, make, neglect, omit, release). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | permesi (permit), lasi (leave, let, release). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | sleppa undan (leave, let, release), sleppa (drop, escape, flee, leave, let, overthrow, release), loyva (abide, accord, admit, afford, concede, endure, grant, permit, put up with, tolerate), lata (cause, dedicate, deliver, devote, entrust, furnish, get, leave, let, make, release, supply, tell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پسندیدن (Accept, Choose), پذیرفتن (Accept, Admit, Embrace, Hear, Listen, Matriculate, Receive, Vouchsafe), تصویب کردن (Approve, Authorize, Okay, Pass, Ratify, Resolute), ستودن (Adore, Applaud, Commend, Eulogize, Extol, Glorify, Praise), اعطاء کردن (Admit, Confer), اجازه دادن (Authorize, Let, Permit), روادانستن , رخصت دادن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sallia (accord, admit, afford, enable, give permission, let, permit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | permettre, laisser, allouer (allocate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | gestatten (accord, admit, afford, agree to, allow of, allows, consent to, grant, permit, to allow of), erlauben (accord, admit, afford, let, license, permit, to allow, to permit), zulassen (accredit, admint, admit, admit of, allow of, authorize, keep closed, leave shut, let, let in, lets, license, permit, register, to admit of, to allow, to allow of, to tolerate, tolerate), lassen (get, have, leave, leave alone, leave in, let, let be, let go, lets, make, permit, release, stop, to assume, to let). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | επιτρέπω (enable, let, permit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לתת רשות (permit), לתת (establish, give, grant, hand over, let, make, malt, permit, render), ל"ותיר (leave, let, permit), ל"קציב (allocate, allot, apply, assign, funds, mete, portion, ration, set aside, set the pace), ל"רשות (admit, consent, let, permit, sanction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megenged (had, permit, to admit, to admit of, to allow of, to grant, to have, to tolerate, to vouchsafe, vouchsafe), hagy (leave, left, let, to allow of, to leave, to let, to pass in), engedélyez (authorise, authorize, charter, countenance, grant, permit, to allow an item of expenditure, to assign, to authorise, to authorize, to grant, to licence, to license, to permit), enged (cede, gave, give in, give up, give way, given, had, let, relent, relinquish, to allow of, to comply with, to give, to give it best, to give the green light, to give way to, to have, to knuckle down, to lower one's flag, to relent, to slacken, to strike one's flag, to submit, to uncoop, yield). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | mengizinkan (acquiesce, consent), mengijinkan (brook, concessive, consent, permit), memperbolehkan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | permettere (accord, admit, afford, authorise, authorize, bear, enable, let, license, permit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 許す (permitone's). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | おがませる (to allow to worship, to let a person have a look), さしゆるす (to allow, to forgive), ゆるす (to allow, to approve, to confide in, to excuse, to exempt, to forgive, to let off, to pardon, to permit, to release), もたせる (to allow someone to keep something, to have someone hold something), エバチップ (special version of a product with features that allow it to be used for evaluation), じょうしゃきょひ (refusing to allow a passenger on board a train or into a bus or taxi). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 허용하십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Malay | perbolehkan (accord, admit, afford, permit), memperbolehkan (accord, admit, afford, permit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | surral (endure, permit, suffer, tolerate), cur raad da (permit), cur kied da (authorize, license, permit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mohawk | -erihenhs (to allow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | forlate (abandon, desert, forgive, forsake, leave, let, quit, release). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papago | hiwigith (to allow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | permití (accord, admit, afford, permit), laga (leave, let, release). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | alloway zostawić, puścić, pozwalać. (various references) permitir (accept, admit, afford, Brook, deign, enable, grant, have, leave, let, licence, license, permit, receive, release, see, tolerate), consentir (accede, accept, accord, admit, afford, authorise, authorize, comply, consent, permit). (various references) permite (accord, admit, afford, authorise, authorize, empower, enable, grant, indulge in, let, license, permit, permit of), da voie (leave, let, permit, release). (various references) lubir (to allow). (various references) разрешать (authorise, authorize, determine, enable, let, license, permit, ratify, resolve, settle, solve), разрешить (permit, resolve, solve), пускать (leave, let, release, start), предоставлять (accord, grant to, provide, provide to, render), позволять (afford [], allow b, let, lets, letting), допускать (accept, admit, allow of, concede, grant, homologate, tolerate), давать (administer, afford, bestow, downplay, gave, give, give to, impart, lend, let, present). (various references) leig (accord, admit, afford, let, let go, let Irish léigim, let out, permit), fulaing (endure, fulang, permit), ceadaich. (various references) dumelela (to allow). (various references) tvrditi (assert, asseverate, aver, avouch, claim, contend, purport, submit, vouch), pustiti (admit, let, let go, let in, let loose, let out, permit, release, run), isplaćivati, dozvoliti (authorise, authorize, let, license, permit, warrant), dopustiti (agree, concede, permit, tolerate), davati (give, impart, permit, run). (various references) -bvumira (to allow). (various references) lassari (to allow). (various references) permitir (accord, admit, admit of, afford, allow in, allow of, allow out, cut in, emend, empower, enable, give, have, let, live, permit, suffer, treat, wear), dejar (abandon, bring in, drop, exit, finish, forget, forsake, give up, leave, leave alone, leave behind, leave off, leave out, lend, let, lets, make, outdistance, outstrip, produce, put, put down, quit, release, slip, stop, to assume, wait, yield). (various references) kuacha (leave, let, release). (various references) ku-vumêla (to allow). (various references) |
