Found 4 items, similar to ALLOW.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: allow
mengizinkan
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: allow
membolehkan, memperbolehkan, menghalalkan, mengijinkan, mengizinkan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: allow
allow
v 1: 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”
[syn:
let,
permit] [ant:
prevent]
2: consent to, 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” [syn:
permit,
let,
countenance] [ant:
forbid,
forbid]
3: let have;
“grant permission”;
“Mandela was allowed few
visitors in prison” [syn:
grant] [ant:
deny]
4: give or assign a share of money or time to a particular
person or cause;
“I will earmark this money for your
research” [syn:
appropriate,
earmark,
set aside,
reserve]
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”;
“This procedure provides for lots of leeway” [syn:
leave,
allow for,
provide]
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" [syn:
take into account]
7: afford possibility;
“This problem admits of no solution”;
“This short story allows of several different
interpretations” [syn:
admit]
8: allow the other (baseball) team to score;
“give up a run”
[syn:
give up]
9: grant as a discount or in exchange;
“The camera store owner
allowed me $50 on my old camera”
10: allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without
opposing or prohibiting;
“We don't allow dogs here”;
“Children are not permitted beyond this point”;
“We
cannot tolerate smoking in the hospital” [syn:
permit,
tolerate]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Allow
Allow
\Al*low"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Allowed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Allowing.] [OE. alouen, OF. alouer, aloer, aluer, F.
allouer, fr. LL. allocare to admit as proved, to place, use;
confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad +
laudare to praise. See
Local, and cf.
Allocate,
Laud.]
1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. [Obs. or
Archaic]
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Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. --Luke xi. 48.
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We commend his pains, condemn his pride, allow his
life, approve his learning. --Fuller.
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2. To like; to be suited or pleased with. [Obs.]
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How allow you the model of these clothes?
--Massinger.
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3. To sanction; to invest; to intrust. [Obs.]
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Thou shalt be . . . allowed with absolute power.
--Shak.
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4. To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let
one have; as, to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a
free passage; to allow one day for rest.
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He was allowed about three hundred pounds a year.
--Macaulay.
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5. To own or acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to
accede to an opinion; as, to allow a right; to allow a
claim; to allow the truth of a proposition.
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I allow, with Mrs. Grundy and most moralists, that
Miss Newcome's conduct . . . was highly
reprehensible. --Thackeray.
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6. To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp.
to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage.
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7. To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to
allow a son to be absent.
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Syn: To allot; assign; bestow; concede; admit; permit;
suffer; tolerate. See
Permit.
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Allow
\Al*low"\, v. i.
To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.
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Allowing still for the different ways of making it.
--Addison.
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To allow of, to permit; to admit. --Shak.
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