| 单词 | admit |
| 释义 | admit —admittable, admittible, adj. —admitter, n. /ad mit"/, v. , admitted, admitting. v.t. 1. to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college. 2. to give right or means of entrance to: This ticket admits two people. 3. to permit to exercise a certain function or privilege: admitted to the bar. 4. to permit; allow. 5. to allow or concede as valid: to admit the force of an argument. 6. to acknowledge; confess: He admitted his guilt. 7. to grant in argument; concede: The fact is admitted. 8. to have capacity for: This passage admits two abreast. v.i. 9. to permit entrance; give access: This door admits to the garden. 10. to grant opportunity or permission (usually fol. by of): The contract admits of no other interpretation. [1375-1425; < L admittere, equiv. to ad- AD- + mittere to send, let go; r. late ME amitte, with a- A-5 (instead of ad-) < MF amettre < L, as above] Syn. 1. receive. 6. own, avow. See acknowledge. |
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