allow : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: allow	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for allow
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
allow v 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" Synonym(s): let, allow, permit Antonym(s): keep, prevent 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" Synonym(s): permit, allow, let, countenance Antonym(s): disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto let have; "grant permission"; "Mandela was allowed few visitors in prison" Synonym(s): allow, grant Antonym(s): deny, refuse give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause; "I will earmark this money for your research"; "She sets aside time for meditation every day" Synonym(s): allow, appropriate, earmark, set aside, reserve 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" Synonym(s): leave, allow for, allow, provide 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" Synonym(s): allow, take into account afford possibility; "This problem admits of no solution"; "This short story allows of several different interpretations" Synonym(s): admit, allow allow the other (baseball) team to score; "give up a run" Synonym(s): give up, allow grant as a discount or in exchange; "The camera store owner allowed me $50 on my old camera" 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" Synonym(s): allow, permit, tolerate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Allow \Allow"\, 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] Ye allow* the deeds of your fathers. --Luke xi. 48. We commend his pains, condemn his pride, allow his life, approve his learning. --Fuller. 2. To like; to be suited or pleased with. [Obs.] How allow you the model of these clothes? --Massinger. 3. To sanction; to invest; to intrust. [Obs.] Thou shalt be . . . allowed with absolute power. --Shak. 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. He was allowed about three hundred pounds a year. --Macaulay. 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. I allow, with Mrs. Grundy and most moralists, that Miss Newcome's conduct . . . was highly reprehensible. --Thackeray. 6. To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage. 7. To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to allow a son to be absent. Syn: To allot; assign; bestow; concede; admit; permit; suffer; tolerate. See {Permit}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Allow \Allow"\, v. i. To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement. Allowing still for the different ways of making it. --Addison. {To allow* of}, to permit; to admit. --Shak.