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[uh-loud]

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adjective

Physics. involving a change in quantum numbers, permitted by the selection rules: allowed transition.

Origin:
allow + -ed²

Related forms

un·al·lowed, adjective

Can be confused: allowed, allude, aloud, elude.

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Allowed is always a great word to know.

So is fluidity. Does it mean:

a sequence of changing states that produces a final state identical to the original one; one of a succession of periodically recurring events

the ability of a substance to flow; a measure of this ability, the reciprocal of the coefficient of viscosity

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The format allowed me to offer constructive criticism and ensure that their conversations remained on track during the project.

Therefore, in order to save lives, the government should sometimes be allowed to infringe these patents.

Exports of trophies, such as skins and heads, would have been allowed.

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The format allowed me to offer constructive criticism and ensure that their conversations remained on track during the project.

Therefore, in order to save lives, the government should sometimes be allowed to infringe these patents.

Exports of trophies, such as skins and heads, would have been allowed.

Under the pact, use of the pesticide is allowed only for controlling malaria.

When my children were born, fathers were not allowed in the delivery room.

Often multistemmed, it maintains bushy form with branches to ground when allowed to grow naturally.

The system extension allowed users to collapse open windows with a click of the mouse.

The college subsequently allowed one such offender to enroll.

In the countryside, couples are allowed to have a second child if the first is a girl.

The method allowed scientists to spot the appearance of zones where seismic waves moved unusually slowly.

People are not always devastated by a death and should be allowed to recover in their own way.

The picture that emerges from all this is that a combination of features allowed sauropods to grow large.

Can also be allowed to sprawl and used as a ground cover.

Samsonite's first mistake was not building this bag to the maximum dimensions allowed for a carry-on-it's the runt of our litter.

Women are now allowed to stay in hotels unaccompanied.

So the switch to volcanoes that erupt above water might have allowed oxygen to build up.

Fortunately, their survival training allowed them to cope with the tough situations.

Today, hunting is allowed on more than half of national refuges-an important tool in managing wildlife.

Before being eaten they must be allowed to ripen further to lose their puckery astringency and become as soft and sweet as jelly.

Individuals will be allowed to rent, buy and sell their homes.

The water that returns to the surface once the well is allowed to flow can be used again with minimal treating.

It's also allowed large populations to live in regions that wouldn't otherwise meet their demands for fresh water.

We were always allowed to play outside at night, too.

If seeds are allowed to ripen, the plant will stop producing.

According to a recent poll of enlisted men, more than half thought gays should be allowed in the armed forces.

Pets are allowed in the park as long as they are leashed.

Blaming people for not doing something they're not allowed to do does not seem reasonable.

In that time, overfishing has allowed seaweed and algae to grow unchecked, smothering coral worldwide.

There is no water available on-site, and dogs are not allowed.

The changes gave the church full legal status, removed restrictions on its rites, and allowed priests to vote.

For one, the plentiful food sources allowed for easier reproduction and a denser population.

They reduced the radio's sampling rate which in turn allowed the radio chips to be run at a lower clock rate, thus saving energy.

Just before the water boils, the pot is set aside and its contents are allowed to settle.

Angling the sink and simplifying wall treatments allowed the cramped and busy room to breathe easier.

Private-equity firms will now be allowed to own bigger stakes.

So far, ten such embryos have been created, though they have not been allowed to develop for more than five days.

Genetic engineering has allowed scientists to make their own living models for studying a host of diseases.

Makes a great privacy screen if not allowed to become bare at the base add to my plant list.

The government has not allowed electricity tariffs to rise in step with coal prices, forcing producers to operate at a loss.

These maneuvers allowed engineers to change the craft's speed and direction without burning fuel.

We allowed the students to participate in the decision making as much as possible.

If allowed to turn completely brown and become mushy, fruit is better for drying.

These sequences allowed the researchers to control when and where the introduced genes expressed themselves.

When the peppers are allowed to turn red on the plant, they're usually dried before being used in cooking.

Makes a great privacy screen if not allowed to become bare at the base.

Children aren't allowed in this space without an adult, but the reverse is also true.

Commercial trees are allowed to carry branches right to ground.

The chair had goofed on how many people were allowed on the panel, and one of us had to go.

Couples in which both partners are single children may be allowed two.

After seven years in a sugar-free household, my mission was to sample as much candy as my stomach and allowance allowed.

But, every five-year-old should be allowed to create their.

Existing students will be allowed to finish their studies.

At present, vehicle manufacturers and importers are allowed to operate tightly controlled selective dealership networks.

In recent years, sophisticated research techniques have allowed scientists to define relationships more precisely.

Moreover, athletes should be allowed to negotiate the maximum length.

Christian landowners outside the city allowed access to their.

These techniques have allowed scientists to cool vapors to near absolute zero, develop new.

Most patent systems simply allowed inventors to register an idea.

If plant is allowed to sprawl and upright stems are removed, it can serve as a bank cover.

Manning is not allowed to receive visits from the press.

None of us who worked at the university was allowed to forget that.

Various regulations determine what is allowed and what is prohibited in.

Teens who are allowed to go to bed later are more likely to suffer from.

The four librarians under the gag order weren't allowed to talk to each other by phone.

Elected officials are allowed to buy four season tickets, and staff or cabinet members may buy two.

Little has been done to remedy the supervisory and regulatory failings that allowed such a disaster to happen.

Mining the theory allowed origamists to plot complex designs with lots of limbs and also to find technological applications.

And only they are allowed to draw flawed conclusions from biased data".

The research also shows that the bronze was cast in a way that allowed preservation of the model.

My guess is that he was allowed to take the iPad outside of the secure area but still not supposed to show.

The results allowed them to form a profile of who was active on the site.

Less and less waste, these days, is actually allowed to go to waste.

It was something that was actually solvable and allowed me to worry about fundamental questions," he concedes.

These factors allowed designers to finally re-imagine the kitchen.

Inmates in federal penitentiaries aren't allowed to have actual.

Students are not allowed to use cellphones during the exams.

The longer you had gone without a crash, the faster you would be allowed to go until your chance of.

Why are companies allowed to push people to overeat.

Was he/she not allowed to use this iPhone outside and be seen with.

More state-run firms will also be allowed to raise capital by issuing bonds-a privilege previously extended to only a few.

The fruit is so smelly that it isn't allowed in many public places.

In fact, they are the seed pods of a radish plant that has been allowed to flower and go to seed.

They won't store as long since their skins weren't allowed to harden for a few more weeks, but they'll taste extra delicious.

The predictive text entry method changed how people composed messages and allowed us to type faster than ever on tiny keyboards.

He believes that the country's overwhelmingly public universities should be allowed to set.

Those who stayed had their land confiscated, but were allowed to start new lives as peasants.

The new craft's body was constructed around a rotor, which allowed the replica to be manipulated atop a five-story-tall column.

Global networking, heterogeneous funding and fortunate political timing have allowed the project to progress rapidly.

His invention allowed him to stow his bed in his closet, transforming his one-room apartment from a bedroom into a parlor.

The best known is the no-fly list, a list of people who are not allowed to get on a plane.

Those with deficits are not allowed to keep deficit-spending.

Unfortunately, it has allowed itself to become part of the problem.

It's allowed a lot more expressiveness in the way we're playing and the way the songs are being written.

Bush allowed the use of federal funds for work on embryonic stem cells but only on those from sanctioned samples.

Fonteyn was freed within a day and allowed to leave the country.

During the test day, nicotine addicts were allowed to indulge their habits, but everyone had to remain uncaffeinated.

Few people are allowed into the cave for two important.

It stilled the fear of infection that had allowed thousands to die untreated.

Party members there have been allowed to select delegates to party congresses through secret ballots.

The dinosaur's oddest feature was a broad, straight-edged muzzle, which allowed its mouth to work close to the ground.

When allowed to run home, crabs that didn't cross the plastic sheet travelled far enough to reach their burrows.

If sleeping, the dogs were allowed to lie-unless they barked up the wrong tree.

The directly elected president will be allowed to serve two consecutive five-year.

These unique strains allowed the scientists to track where the cats had been and at approximately what time.

The mixture is boiled and allowed to set before being molded into a loaf, sliced up and finally pan-fried until golden brown.

As a black, and as a person with no formal medical qualifications, he was not allowed to be.

Flies on a diet live much longer than flies that are allowed to eat all they want.

He should not be allowed to endanger our kids whose school air lies in the path of the fumes he emits.

They will not be allowed to lever their balance-sheets at will.

No adult is allowed in the playground without a child.

For example, their multiple stomachs probably allowed them to extract maximum nutrition from their food.

There may not have been enough food for dinosaurs, but the more generalized tastes of mammals allowed them to hang.

Only those few needed to keep the species going are allowed to live beyond chickdom.

If the species is allowed to vanish, scientists believe it will foreshadow the extinction of a host of other marine species.

In fact, only agriculture has allowed the enormously despoiling human populations now on earth.

The bunged-up financial system has not allowed lower interest rates to work their magic on commerce.

He was allowed to keep the head and one arm for his efforts.

These sorts of differences have allowed geneticists to calculate relationships and moments of evolutionary divergence.

The regime did not want to be blamed for him dying behind bars, he says, so he was allowed out for treatment.

The enormous range of these two musicians allowed them increasingly to broaden their instrumental combinations.

Like an airplane, financial models can never be allowed to fly solo.

Brain imaging has allowed a man who was previously considered unconscious to answer a series of yes-or-no questions.

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verb (used with object)

to give permission to or for; permit: to allow a student to be absent; No swimming allowed.

to let have; give as one's share; grant as one's right: to allow a person $100 for expenses.

to permit by neglect, oversight, or the like: to allow a door to remain open.

to admit; acknowledge; concede: to allow a claim.

to take into consideration, as by adding or subtracting; set apart: to allow an hour for changing trains.

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Older Use. to say; think.

Archaic. to approve; sanction.

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verb (used without object)

to permit something to happen or to exist; admit (often followed by of): to spend more than one's budget allows; a premise that allows of only one conclusion.

Idiom

allow for, to make concession or provision for: to allow for breakage.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English alowen < Anglo-French al(l)o(u)er to place, allot, allow, Old French aloer to place < Late Latin allocāre; see al-, locus; the older sense “approve, sanction” and Middle English sense “praise” probably by taking the Anglo-French v. as representing Medieval Latin, Latin adlaudāre to praise; see ad-, laud

Related forms

pre·al·low, verb (used with object)

Synonyms
1. Allow, let, permit imply granting or conceding the right of someone to do something. Allow and permit are often interchangeable, but permit is the more positive. Allow implies complete absence of an attempt, or even an intent, to hinder. Permit suggests formal or implied assent or authorization. Let is the familiar, conversational term for both allow and permit.

Antonyms
1. forbid, prohibit.

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Word Origin & History

allow

c.1300, from O.Fr. alouer "approve," from L. allaudare, compound of ad- "to" + laudare "to praise," confused and merged in O.Fr. with alouer "assign," from L. allocare (see allocate). From the first word came the sense "permission based on approval," from the second the

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meaning preserved in allowance.

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