admit
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English admitten, amitten, borrowed from Old French admettre, amettre (“to admit”), from Latin admittō (“to allow entrance, inlet”, literally “to send to”), from ad- + mittere (“to send”).
Inflected forms:
form: admits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: admitting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: admitted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: admitted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: admit
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: admit
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: admitted
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: admit
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: admittest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: admitted
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: admittedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: admits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: admitteth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: admitted
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: admit
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: admitted
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: admit
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: admitted
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: admit
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: admitting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: admitted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To allow to enter; to grant entrance (to), whether into a place, into the mind, or into consideration
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to admit a serious thought into the mind
to admit evidence in the trial of a cause
A ticket admits one into a playhouse.
They were admitted into his house.
Her eyes are homes of silent prayer,
⁠Nor other thought her mind admits
⁠But, he was dead, and there he sits,
And he that brought him back is there.
gloss: To allow (someone) to enter a profession or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to admit an attorney to practice law
The prisoner was admitted to bail.
gloss: To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny (+ to).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: the argument or fact is admitted
He admitted his guilt.
She admitted taking drugs / she admitted to taking drugs.
However, a Carlisle newspaper got hold of the story, and at the half-yearly meeting of the Caledonian Railway Company, held on March 17, 1863, a shareholder, Mr. Meiklem, questioned the Chairman, Lt.-Col. Salkeld, regarding a "Chase of Engines," described in the newspaper article. The Chairman admitted that the statements made in the article were perfectly true.
His sister, Patti, also admitted taking drugs, […]
Police officers at a checkpoint in Bangkok's Huay Kwang district admitted to extorting 27,000 baht from a Taiwanese actress […]
gloss: To be capable of; to permit. In this sense, "of" may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The words do not admit such a construction.
Four bells admit twenty-four changes in ringing.
There is no tree admits of transplantation so well as the Elm, for a tree of twenty years growth will admit of a remove.
I received a phone call last Wednesday telling me Carl Wittman had died. We had heard that he had been diagnosed several weeks before as having AIDS, but that his prognosis admitted a possible 18 more months.
gloss: To give warrant or allowance, to grant opportunity or permission.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
with-of
examples: Circumstances do not admit of this.
The text does not admit of this interpretation.
gloss: To allow to enter a hospital or similar facility for treatment.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "This shocking report proves once again that we urgently need a radical shake-up of hospital care," said Jeremy Hughes, chief executive of the Alzheimer's Society. "Given that people with dementia occupy a quarter of hospital beds and that many leave in worse health than when they were admitted, it is unacceptable that training in dementia care is not the norm."
Related words: admissible
admission
mission
Derived words: admit defeat
admittable
admittance
admittedly
admittee
admitter
admitting
admittingly
coadmit
nonadmitted
preadmit
readmit
re-admit
unadmitted
unadmitting
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