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admit
[ ad-mit ]
verb (used with object)
- to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to:
to admit a student to college.
Synonyms:
- to give right or means of entrance to:
This ticket admits two people.
- to register (a person) as an inpatient at a hospital:
After seeing the test results, the emergency room doctor admitted her and put her on intravenous fluids.
- to permit to exercise a certain function or privilege:
admitted to the bar.
- to permit; allow.
- to allow or concede as valid:
to admit the force of an argument.
- to acknowledge; confess:
He admitted his guilt.
Synonyms: ,
- to grant in argument; concede:
The fact is admitted.
- to have capacity for:
This passage admits two abreast.
verb (used without object)
- to permit entrance; give access:
This door admits to the garden.
- to permit the possibility of something; allow (usually followed by of ):
The contract admits of no other interpretation.
admit
/ əˈɪ /
verb
- may take a clause as object to confess or acknowledge (a crime, mistake, etc)
- may take a clause as object to concede (the truth or validity of something)
- to allow to enter; let in
- foll by to to allow participation (in) or the right to be part (of)
to admit to the profession
- whenintr, foll by of to allow (of); leave room (for)
- intr to give access
the door admits onto the lawn
Other Word Forms
- ··ٲ· ··پ· adjective
- ··ٱ noun
- ·· verb (used with object) preadmitted preadmitting
- ·· verb readmitted readmitting
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of admit1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
"We're open to a different system," she told the Telegraph, but admitted no preferred options had been put forward yet.
He admitted that some of the inappropriate jokes were "probably true", saying: "Some of what's been said sounds like the sort of comments I'd have made."
Recent polls suggest that framing could be broadly popular — and that refusing to bring back a man admittedly expelled by mistake, in defiance of the Supreme Court, is not.
To some this is considered a back door way of transforming the landmark Curriculum for Excellence without actually admitting it did not achieve what was intended.
The 47-year-old was admitted to hospital on 11 April having felt unwell for a number of days, and has missed three Magpies matches.
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