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ad⋅mit

  [ad-mit] verb, -mit⋅ted, -mit⋅ting.
Use admit in a Sentence
–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')   
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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Admit

Ad*mit"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Admitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Admitting.] [OE. amitten, L. admittere, admissum; ad + mittere to send: cf. F. admettre, OF. admettre, OF. ametre. See Missile.]

1. To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause.

2. To give a right of entrance; as, a ticket admits one into a playhouse.

3. To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise; as, to admit an attorney to practice law; the prisoner was admitted to bail.

4. To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny; to own or confess; as, the argument or fact is admitted; he admitted his guilt.

5. To be capable of; to permit; as, the words do not admit such a construction. In this sense, of may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.

Both Houses declared that they could admit of no treaty with the king. --Hume.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : admit
Spanish: admitir, permitir la entrada,
German: Zutritt gewähren,
Japanese: 入場を許可する
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admit 
1413, "let in," from L. admittere, from ad- "to" + mittere "let go, send" (see mission). Sense of "to concede as valid or true" is first recorded 1532. Admittance is from 1589, "the action of admitting."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: ad·mit
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: ad·mit·ted; ad·mit·ting
transitive verb 1 : to concede as true or valid : make an admission of
2 : to allow to be entered or offered <admitted the document into evidence> <admit a will to probate> intransitive verb : to make acknowledgment —used with to <admits to the murder>
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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