Synonyms of the word allow


ALLOWACCEPT - ADMIT - AFFORD - ALLOT - ALLOW - APPROPRIATE - ASSIGN - CALCULATE - CONSENT - COUNTENANCE - DISCOUNT - EARMARK - ESTIMATE - FIGURE - FORECAST - GIVE - GRANT - LEAVE - LET - PERMIT - PORTION - PROVIDE - RECKON - RESERVE - TOLERATE - YIELD

allow

  • v. (transitive) To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.
  • v. (transitive) To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
  • v. (transitive) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.
  • v. (transitive) To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.
  • v. To not bar or obstruct.
  • v. (intransitive) To acknowledge or concede.
  • v. (transitive) To take into account by making an allowance.
  • v. (transitive) To render physically possible.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
  • v. (obsolete) To sanction; to invest; to entrust.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To like; to be suited or pleased with.

accept

  • v. (transitive) To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
  • v. (transitive) To admit to a place or a group.
  • v. (transitive) To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
  • v. (transitive) To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
  • v. (transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
  • v. (transitive) To endure patiently.
  • v. (transitive, law, business) To agree to pay.
  • v. (transitive) To receive officially.
  • v. (intransitive) To receive something willingly.
  • adj. (obsolete) Accepted.

admit

  • v. (transitive) To allow to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration;…
  • v. (transitive) To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for…
  • v. (transitive) To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible…
  • v. (transitive) To be capable of; to permit. In this sense, "of" may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.
  • v. (intransitive) To give warrant or allowance, to grant opportunity or permission (+ of).
  • v. (transitive) To allow to enter a hospital or similar facility for treatment.

afford

  • v. To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be…
  • v. To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting, expending, with profit, or without loss or too…
  • v. To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue.
  • v. To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish.

allot

  • v. (transitive) To distribute or apportion by (or as if by) lot.
  • v. (transitive) To assign or designate as a task or for a purpose.

allow

  • v. (transitive) To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.
  • v. (transitive) To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
  • v. (transitive) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.
  • v. (transitive) To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.
  • v. To not bar or obstruct.
  • v. (intransitive) To acknowledge or concede.
  • v. (transitive) To take into account by making an allowance.
  • v. (transitive) To render physically possible.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
  • v. (obsolete) To sanction; to invest; to entrust.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To like; to be suited or pleased with.

appropriate

  • adj. (obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
  • adj. Hence, belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
  • adj. Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially…
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To make suitable; to suit.
  • v. (transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
  • v. (transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all…
  • v. (transitive, Britain, ecclesiastical, law) To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation,…

assign

  • v. (transitive) To designate or set apart something for some purpose.
  • v. (transitive) To appoint or select someone for some office.
  • v. (transitive) To allot or give something as a task.
  • v. (transitive) To attribute or sort something into categories.
  • v. (transitive, law) To transfer property, a legal right, etc., from one person to another.
  • v. (transitive, programming) To give (a value) to a variable.
  • n. An assignee.
  • n. (obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.

calculate

  • v. (transitive, mathematics) To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical…
  • v. (intransitive, mathematics) To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.
  • v. (intransitive, US, dialect) To plan; to expect; to think.
  • v. To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other…
  • v. To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of…

consent

  • v. To express willingness, to give permission.
  • v. (medicine) To cause to sign a consent form.
  • v. (obsolete) To grant; to allow; to assent to.
  • v. To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.
  • n. Voluntary agreement or permission.
  • n. (obsolete) Unity or agreement of opinion, sentiment, or inclination.

countenance

  • n. Appearance, especially the features and expression of the face.
  • n. Favour; support; encouragement.
  • n. (obsolete) Superficial appearance; show; pretense.
  • n. calm facial expression, composure, self-control.
  • v. (transitive) To tolerate, support, sanction, patronise or approve of something.

discount

  • v. To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like.
  • v. To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest.
  • v. To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
  • v. To leave out of account; to take no notice of.
  • v. To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount.
  • n. A reduction in price.
  • n. A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment…
  • n. The rate of interest charged in discounting.
  • adj. (of a store) Specializing in selling goods at reduced prices.

earmark

  • v. (transitive) To mark (as of sheep) by slitting the ear.
  • v. (transitive, by extension) To specify or set aside for a particular purpose, to allocate.
  • n. A mark or deformation of the ear of an animal, intended to indicate ownership.
  • n. (US, politics) The designation of specific projects in appropriations of funding for general programs.
  • n. A mark for identification; a distinguishing mark.

estimate

  • n. A rough calculation or guess.
  • n. (construction and business) A document (or verbal notification) specifying how much a job will probably…
  • n. An upper limitation on some positive quantity.
  • v. To calculate roughly, often from imperfect data.
  • v. To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data.

figure

  • n. A drawing or diagram conveying information.
  • n. The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially,…
  • n. A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.
  • n. The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.
  • n. (obsolete) Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendour; show.
  • n. A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.
  • n. A numeral.
  • n. A number.
  • n. A shape.
  • n. A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.
  • n. A dance figure, a complex dance moveW.
  • n. A figure of speech.
  • n. (logic) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
  • n. (astrology) A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
  • n. (music) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single…
  • n. (music) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.
  • v. To solve a mathematical problem.
  • v. To come to understand.
  • v. (intransitive) To be reasonable.
  • v. (transitive) To enter, be a part of.
  • v. (obsolete) To represent by a figure, as to form or mould; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal;…
  • v. To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
  • v. (obsolete) To indicate by numerals.
  • v. To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
  • v. (obsolete) To prefigure; to foreshow.
  • v. (music) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying…
  • v. (music) To embellish.

forecast

  • v. To estimate how something will be in the future.
  • v. (obsolete) To contrive or plan beforehand.
  • n. An estimation of a future condition.
  • n. A prediction of the weather.

give

  • v. (transitive, may take two objects) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or…
  • v. (transitive, may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
  • v. (intransitive) To yield slightly when a force is applied.
  • v. (intransitive) To collapse under pressure or force.
  • v. (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
  • v. (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
  • v. (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
  • v. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
  • v. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
  • v. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
  • v. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
  • v. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout,…
  • v. (dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
  • v. (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
  • v. (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
  • v. (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
  • v. (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
  • v. To be going on, to be occurring.
  • n. (uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.

grant

  • v. To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer…
  • v. To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.
  • v. To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede.
  • v. To assent; to consent.
  • n. The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.
  • n. The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
  • n. The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.
  • n. (law) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the…
  • n. the deed or writing by which such a transfer is made.
  • n. (informal) An application for a grant (monetary boon to aid research or the like).

leave

  • v. (heading, transitive) To have a consequence or remnant.
  • v. (heading) To depart; to separate from.
  • v. (heading) To transfer something.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To remain (behind); to stay.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).
  • n. (cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
  • n. (billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether…
  • n. Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
  • n. (dated or law) Permission.
  • n. (dated) Farewell, departure.
  • v. (transitive) To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.
  • v. (intransitive, rare) To produce leaves or foliage.
  • v. (obsolete) To raise; to levy.

let

  • v. (transitive) To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to).
  • v. (transitive) To leave.
  • v. (transitive) To allow the release of (a fluid).
  • v. (transitive) To allow possession of (a property etc.) in exchange for rent.
  • v. (transitive) To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; often with out.
  • v. (transitive) Used to introduce an imperative in the first or third person.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete except with know) To cause (+ bare infinitive).
  • n. The allowing of possession of a property etc. in exchange for rent.
  • v. (archaic) To hinder, prevent, impede, hamper, cumber; to obstruct (someone or something).
  • v. (obsolete) To prevent someone from doing something; also to prevent something from happening.
  • v. (obsolete) To tarry or delay.
  • n. An obstacle or hindrance.
  • n. (tennis) The hindrance caused by the net during serve, only if the ball falls legally.

permit

  • v. (now archaic, rare) To hand over, resign (something to someone).
  • v. (transitive) To allow (something) to happen, to give permission for.
  • v. (transitive) To allow (someone) to do something; to give permission to.
  • v. (intransitive) To allow for, to make something possible.
  • v. (intransitive) To allow, to admit (of).
  • v. (transitive, pronounced like noun) To grant formal authorization for (something).
  • v. (transitive, pronounced like noun) To attempt to obtain or succeed in obtaining formal authorization for…
  • n. (obsolete) Formal permission.
  • n. An artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal.
  • n. A pompano of the species Trachinotus falcatus.

portion

  • n. An allocated amount.
  • n. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
  • n. One's fate; lot.
  • n. The part of an estate given or falling to a child or heir; an inheritance.
  • n. A wife's fortune; a dowry.
  • v. (transitive) To divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes.
  • v. (transitive) To endow with a portion or inheritance.

provide

  • v. To make a living; earn money for necessities.
  • v. To act to prepare for something.
  • v. To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
  • v. To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
  • v. To furnish (with), cause to be present.
  • v. To make possible or attainable.
  • v. (obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.
  • v. To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.

reckon

  • v. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
  • v. To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account;…
  • v. To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
  • v. To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by…
  • v. (intransitive) To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
  • v. To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and…

reserve

  • n. (behaviour) Restriction.
  • n. That which is reserved or kept back, as for future use.
  • n. (social) Something initially kept back for later use in a recreation.
  • n. In exhibitions, a distinction indicating that the recipient will get a prize in the event of another person…
  • n. (calico printing) A resist.
  • n. A preparation used on an object being electroplated to fix the limits of the deposit.
  • v. To keep back; to retain.
  • v. To keep in store for future or special use.
  • v. To book in advance; to make a reservation.
  • v. (obsolete) To make an exception of; to except.

tolerate

  • v. To allow (something that one dislikes or disagrees with) to exist or occur without interference.

yield

  • v. (obsolete) To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
  • v. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
  • v. To give way; to allow another to pass first.
  • v. To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.
  • v. (intransitive) To give way; to succumb to a force.
  • v. To produce as return, as from an investment.
  • v. (mathematics) To produce as a result.
  • v. (linguistics) To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
  • v. (engineering, materials science, of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo…
  • v. (rare) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
  • n. (obsolete) Payment; tribute.
  • n. A product; the quantity of something produced.
  • n. (law) The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.

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