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ad·mit       [ad-mit] Pronunciation Key verb, -mit·ted, -mit·ting.
–verb (used with object)
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.
–verb (used without object)
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.
[Origin: 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]

—Related forms
ad·mit·ta·ble, ad·mit·ti·ble, adjective
ad·mit·ter, noun

—Synonyms 1. receive. 6. own, avow. See acknowledge.
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ad·mit       (ād-mĭt')  Pronunciation Key 
v.   ad·mit·ted, ad·mit·ting, ad·mits

v.   tr.
  1. To permit to enter: A crack in the wall admitted some light.
  2. To provide the right or a means of entrance to: A ticket that admits the whole group.
  3. To permit to exercise the rights, functions, or privileges of: was admitted to the bar association.
  4. To have room for; accommodate.
  5. To afford opportunity for; permit: We must admit no delay in the proceedings.
  6. To grant to be real, valid, or true; acknowledge: admit the truth. See Synonyms at acknowledge.
  7. To grant as true or valid, as for the sake of argument; concede.

v.   intr.
  1. To afford possibility: a problem that admits of no solution.
  2. To allow entrance; afford access: a door admitting to the hall.
  3. To make acknowledgment.


[Middle English amitten, admitten, from Old French amettre, admettre, from Latin admittere : ad-, ad- + mittere, to send.]

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