Admitted vs Submitted - What's the difference?
admitted | submitted |
(admit)
To allow to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take.
To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise.
To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny; to own or confess.
* 2011 , Kitty Kelley, Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography (ISBN 1451674767):
To be capable of; to permit. In this sense, "of" may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.
* Holder
To give warrant or allowance, to grant opportunity or permission (+ of).
To allow to enter a hospital or similar facility for treatment.
* {{quote-news, year=2011
, date=December 16
, author=Denis Campbell
, title=Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients'
, work=Guardian
(submit)
To yield or give way to another.
or To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
* Macaulay
(mixed martial arts) To win a fight by submission.
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(obsolete) To let down; to lower.
* Dryden
(obsolete) To put or place under.
* Chapman
As verbs the difference between admitted and submitted
is that admitted is (admit) while submitted is (submit).admitted
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Verb
(head)admit
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Verb
(admitt)- A ticket admits one into a playhouse.
- They were admitted into his house.
- to admit a serious thought into the mind
- to admit evidence in the trial of a cause
- to admit an attorney to practice law
- the prisoner was admitted to bail
- the argument or fact is admitted
- he admitted his guilt
- she admitted taking drugs'' / ''she admitted to taking drugs
- His sister, Patti, also admitted taking drugs,
- the words do not admit such a construction.
- Four bells admit twenty-four changes in ringing.
- circumstance do not admit of this
- the text does not admit of this interpretation
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Usage notes
In the senses 3. and 4. this is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . SeeSynonyms
* (to allow entry to) * (to recognise as true)Derived terms
* admittable * admittance * admittedly * admitter * admittingsubmitted
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Verb
(head)submit
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Verb
(submitt)- They will not submit to the destruction of their rights.
- I submit these plans for your approval.
- We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus.
- "[Ronda] Rousey, a former U.S. Olympian in Judo, caps off a perfect year in which she submitted Liz Carmouche in the first-ever UFC female fight and coached opposite [Miesha] Tate in "The Ultimate Fighter" reality series."
- Sometimes the hill submits itself a while.
- The bristled throat / Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he cut.