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Allow   /əlˈaʊ/   Listen
Allow

verb
(past & past part. allowed; pres. part. allowing)
1.
Make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen.  Synonyms: let, permit.  "This sealed door won't allow the water come into the basement" , "This will permit the rain to run off"
2.
Consent to, give permission.  Synonyms: countenance, let, permit.  "I won't let the police search her basement" , "I cannot allow you to see your exam"
3.
Let have.  Synonym: grant.  "Mandela was allowed few visitors in prison"
4.
Give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause.  Synonyms: appropriate, earmark, reserve, set aside.  "She sets aside time for meditation every day"
5.
Make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain.  Synonyms: allow for, leave, provide.  "The evidence allows only one conclusion" , "Allow for mistakes" , "Leave lots of time for the trip" , "This procedure provides for lots of leeway"
6.
Allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something.  Synonym: take into account.  "The seamstress planned for 5% shrinkage after the first wash"
7.
Afford possibility.  Synonym: admit.  "This short story allows of several different interpretations"
8.
Allow the other (baseball) team to score.  Synonym: give up.
9.
Grant as a discount or in exchange.
10.
Allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting.  Synonyms: permit, tolerate.  "Children are not permitted beyond this point" , "We cannot tolerate smoking in the hospital"



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"Allow" Quotes from Famous Books



... you?" inquired a loud rough voice behind him. "I don't allow passengers to handle ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade
... another. "Where," said he, "Doth Cianfa lurk?" I, for a sign my guide Should stand attentive, plac'd against my lips The finger lifted. If, O reader! now Thou be not apt to credit what I tell, No marvel; for myself do scarce allow The witness of mine eyes. But as I looked Toward them, lo! a serpent with six feet Springs forth on one, and fastens full upon him: His midmost grasp'd the belly, a forefoot Seiz'd on each arm (while deep in either cheek He flesh'd ...
— The Divine Comedy • Dante
... a most excellent plan," decided Mr. Sparling. "We will work it whenever we get in after daylight. It might not be a bad idea to try it tomorrow morning. I'll allow the musicians overtime for it, so there should be no objection on their part. We will make a triumphal entry into Des Moines, providing nothing happens to us ...
— The Circus Boys On the Mississippi • Edgar B. P. Darlington
... which, he said that even corporeal matter was formed, in order that individuals might be naturally established in their proper genera and species: and that our intellect was formed by such participation in order to have knowledge of the genera and species of things. But since Aristotle did not allow that forms of natural things exist apart from matter, and as forms existing in matter are not actually intelligible; it follows that the natures or forms of the sensible things which we understand are not actually intelligible. Now nothing is ...
— Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) - From the Complete American Edition • Thomas Aquinas
... "Allow me, Sir Patrick! Heaven knows how unwilling I am to speak of it. Heaven knows that not a word of reference to it escaped my lips. But you leave me no choice now. As mistress of the household, as a Christian woman, ...
— Man and Wife • Wilkie Collins


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