English Dictionary

allow

/əˈlaʊ/

verb

(transitive) To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have. / (transitive) To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.

They allow pets in their apartment.

意味（1）

(transitive) To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.

to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest

意味（2）

(transitive) To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.

to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow an appeal to allow the truth of a proposition

意味（3）

(transitive) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.

To allow a sum for leakage.

意味（4）

(transitive) To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.

To allow a son to be absent.

意味（5）

To not bar or obstruct.

Although I don't consent to their holding such meetings, I will allow them for the time being.

意味（6）

(transitive) To take into account by making an allowance.

When calculating a budget for a construction project, always allow for contingencies.

意味（7）

(transitive) To render physically possible.

The inlet allowed a facility to bring the money in a boat secretly and at night to the very foot of the hill.

意味（8）

(transitive, obsolete) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.

Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers

意味（9）

(obsolete) To sanction; to invest; to entrust.

Therefore so please thee to return with us,

And of our Athens—thine and ours—to take

The captainship, thou shalt be met with thanks,

Allow'd with absolute power, and thy good name

Live with authority. So soon we shall drive back

Of Alcibiades the approaches wild,

Who, like a boar too savage, doth root up

Therefore so please thee to return with us, And of our Athens—thine and ours—to take The captainship, thou shalt be met with thanks, Allow'd with absolute power, and thy good name Live with authority. So soon we shall drive back Of Alcibiades the approaches wild, Who, like a boar too savage, doth root up His country's peace.

意味（10）

(transitive, obsolete) To like; to be suited or pleased with.

How allow you the model of these clothes?

意味（11）

(law, transitive) To decide (a request) in favour of the party who raised it; to grant victory to a party regarding (a request).

To allow an objection, to find in favour of the objection and forbid the conduct objected to; to allow an appeal, to decide the appeal in favour of the appellant (contrast grant leave to appeal, to permit an appeal to be heard).