Allow vs Agreement - What's the difference?
allow | agreement |
To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.
* 2004 , Constance Garnett (translator), Anton Chekhov (Russian author), “Ariadne”, in The Darling: and Other Stories :
To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
* 1855 , (William Makepeace Thackeray), (The Newcomes)
To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.
To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.
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To not bar or obstruct.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author=(Leo Hickman)
, volume=189, issue=7, page=26, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= To acknowledge or concede.
* 2000 , (George RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam (2011), page 154:
To take into account by making an allowance.
To render physically possible.
* 1824 , (Washington Irving), :
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
, page=13 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (obsolete) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
* Bible, Luke xi. 48
* Fuller
(obsolete) To sanction; to invest; to entrust.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To like; to be suited or pleased with.
* Massinger
(countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)
, volume=189, issue=6, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
(uncountable, legal) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
(uncountable, linguistics) Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts.
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An agreeable quality.
* 1650 , (John Donne), "Elegie XVII":
As a verb allow
is to grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.As a noun agreement is
(countable) an understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.allow
English
Verb
(en verb)- he needed a great deal of money, but his uncle only allowed him two thousand roubles a year, which was not enough, and for days together he would run about Moscow with his tongue out, as the saying is.
- I allow , with Mrs. Grundy and most moralists, that Miss Newcome's conductwas highly reprehensible.
- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
How algorithms rule the world, passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.}}
- Half the night passed before the wench allowed that it might be safe to stop.
- When calculating a budget for a construction project, always allow for contingencies.
- The inlet allowed a facility to bring the money in a boat secretly and at night to the very foot of the hill.
Ideas coming down the track, passage=A “moving platform” scheme
- Ye allow the deeds of your fathers.
- We commend his pains, condemn his pride, allow his life, approve his learning.
- Thou shalt be allowed with absolute power.
- How allow you the model of these clothes?
Synonyms
* allot, assign, bestow, concede, admit, let, permit, suffer, tolerateDerived terms
* allowance * allowableReferences
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* English control verbsagreement
English
Noun
Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli, passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe.
- Having clarified what we mean by ‘Person? and ‘Number?, we can now return to our earlier observation that a finite I is inflected not only for Tense, but also for Agreement . More particularly, I inflects for Person and Number, and must ‘agree? with its Subject, in the sense that the Person/Number features of I must match those of the Subject.
- Her nymph-like features such agreements have / That I could venture with her to the grave [...].