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admit English

Meaning admit meaning

What does admit mean?
Definitions in simple English

admit Verb

— If you admit someone, you allow them to enter an area or a building. The man was admitted to the theater, and sat in the front row. — If you are admitted to an institution, the institution starts taking care of you. He was admitted to hospital and he is having his operation next week. My elderly grandmother was admitted to a nursing home. To be admitted to a state school, children must show the ability to learn. — If you admit something, you say reluctantly that it is true. She admitted that she robbed the bank. The accused admitted stealing the money. No child would ever admit to enjoying school. "Climbing the Everest was harder than I thought," he admitted. She admitted her mistake and apologized.

admit

— verb (= acknowledge) declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of He admitted his errors She acknowledged that she might have forgotten — verb allow to enter; grant entry to We cannot admit non-members into our club building This pipe admits air — verb allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of admit someone to the profession She was admitted to the New Jersey Bar — verb (= accept) admit into a group or community accept students for graduate study We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member — verb serve as a means of entrance This ticket will admit one adult to the show — verb (= allow) afford possibility This problem admits of no solution This short story allows of several different interpretations — verb give access or entrance to The French doors admit onto the yard — verb (= accommodate, hold) have room for; hold without crowding This hotel can accommodate 250 guests The theater admits 300 people The auditorium can't hold more than 500 people

Synonyms admit synonyms

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admit English » English

confess acknowledge accept allow concede receive recognize agree grant let in profess permit accredit take accord avow own let include consent approve hold bring in recognise know allow in afford take on intromit declare come clean bear assent agree to adopt accommodate unlock take up sustain reveal realize plead guilty pick up import give get enter deliver contain confer

Topics admit topics

What do people use admit to talk about?
Person Healthy Treat disease

Hospital
Language and thought Communication Make speech

Admit
Social behavior Social activity Come together, form a group Visit

Welcome, receive
Social behavior Conflict War

Surrender
Social behavior Conflict Peace

Repent

Conjugation admit conjugation

How do you conjugate admit?

admit · verb

Examples admit examples

How do I use admit in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I must admit that I snore.
You must admit that you are in the wrong.
I admit it to be true.
He would not admit his fault.
I must admit that it was my fault.
I admit that I'm tired.
Tom won't admit that he's wrong.
Tom did not want to admit that he had made a mistake.
I think that we should admit that.
It is easier for Tom to put the blame on Mary than to admit his own mistake.
Tom did admit that he was wrong.
Tom should admit his mistake.
I admit that what you say is true, but I don't like the way you say it.
It's absurd never to admit your mistakes.
I admit this may not be the best way of doing it.
If they admit me to the university, I think I will major in economics.
Even if I admit that, I cannot agree with you.
I'm ready to admit that it was my fault.
We admit that he is a man of ability.
Houses should be built so as to admit plenty of light as well as fresh air.
Our principal wanted to admit Bob to our school.
I admit to being careless.
I admit having done wrong.
I admit my mistake.
Why don't you admit your mistake?

Movie subtitles

Admit it, you intentionally didn't tell me they were coming 'cause you wanted me to look bad.
I only approached that guy because I wanted to get you to admit that you were really into Cooper.
If he was, I'd be proud to admit it.
I admit I said that, but it doesn't mean anything!
You admit to this?
Do you as readily admit to that?
I admit he's a great physician, but self-imposed exile is not a retention strategy!
After scouring the country for food, the Little Fellow had to admit he had seen nothing, not even a field mouse.
Mother, you must admit you were mistaken.
Admit, you prostitute. that you led a wild life during the Commune.
But, Professor Van Helsing, modern medical science. does not admit of such a creature.
We admit nothing.
The Schuylers admit the story is true.
Well, you ought to know about sunken, i admit.
That is within the realm of possibility, I admit. But I've got an old friend on the U.N.'s Peace Observation Committee, so don't worry.
She, herself, would admit that her father did not believe her.
But Professor Van Helsing, modern medical science does not admit of such a creature.
We mustn't admit a heart.
I'll admit that we were at one time anxious for this merger.
Oh, I admit, with this annoying fellow. but usually I give them hunting clothes. a woodsman's knife and a full day's start.
I cheerfully admit defeat.
Well, I'll admit, Father-in-law. you might have done worse.
The police appeal to the public to keep calm and to admit uniformed search parties to all property.
To admit professors from Spain and Italy might corrupt the purity of our teaching.
I admit, I'm licked.
You know, you have an Oedipus complex and you won't admit it.
But anyhow I'm the one that put it over, you must admit this.
I admit that you winked.
But you gotta admit, they're awfully nice company.
Why aren't you frank enough to admit that other indecent self in you?
I tell you, it's unscientific not to admit the possibility of anything.
Well, you must admit that our first meeting was rather formal.
All right, all right, I admit all that. You found me in their joint with a gun.
I admit that too.
Admit that you remember!

News and current affairs

The insurgents in Iraq, as the British admit, were able in just three years to cope with their enemies' technological superiority in a way that the IRA in Northern Ireland was unable to do in 30 years.
The new single currency, the euro, and the European Union's promise to admit as many as ten new members in 2004, are powerful indicators of ongoing integration.
However, it fails to engage the deep intellectual divisions regarding economic development, trade, and globalization, because it refuses to admit the legitimacy of such disagreements.
The great challenge is not to admit that there are many recipes, but rather to create space for other perspectives on economic analysis and policy.
Here are judges, they will say, who do not understand that they have no legitimate qualifications to act as agents of American foreign policy, a job committed by the Constitution to the President and (they may grudgingly admit) Congress.
Here, as elsewhere, Bush is dead wrong, and too dogmatic to admit it.
Alas, however bipartisan the Iraq Study Group's report may be, it is too much to expect that Bush will endorse all of its recommendations and admit the bankruptcy of his entire foreign policy.
But if Europe cannot do so, then perhaps it is better to admit failure and move on than to extract a high price in unemployment and human suffering in the name of a flawed economic model.
That sounds simple, but how many executives can admit that they don't know everything or that they aren't the smartest person in the room?
More than we know (or perhaps care to admit), the future is a matter of human choice, not mere prediction.
I am the first to admit that the US under President George W. Bush has not covered itself with multilateral glory in recent years.
As a European working in the US, I admit that I do take many more vacations than my American colleagues.
Economic considerations thus cannot help but play an important role in life or death medical decisions, though welfare state doctors are loathe to admit it.
The truth that politicians (David Cameron's UK government excluded, at least for now) are reluctant to admit is that Western Europe's current morass is distinct from the global US-made downturn.
Yet Suu Kyi, and much of the Burmese opposition, is beginning to admit that today's political liberalization might be the real thing.
The more important obstacle is Germany's reluctance to admit publicly that ECB liquidity support for government debt markets can be crucial in maintaining financial stability.
At the moment, there is no global threat and the Alliance only intervenes in regional conflicts, so why not have NATO admit this?
Only late last year did he admit that southern Muslim separatism was the cause.
NEW HAVEN - With much of the global economy apparently trapped in a long and painful austerity-induced slump, it is time to admit that the trap is entirely of our own making.
Even Chinese liberals admit that Western journalists blundered badly in Tibet, using cropped images and false captions as evidence of China's heavy-handed rule.
Even critics of past US profligacy must admit that the Geithner proposal contains some good ideas.
But while researchers created impressive global climate models in recent years, they are the first to admit that such models can include only a fraction of the many physical forces that together determine the climate and global mean temperature.
Observers marvel that China's leaders admit to such a staggering number of protests.
State-run media organs have been forced to admit that these protests test the Party's will to maintain power.

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