Allow vs Happen - What's the difference?
allow | happen |
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
To occur or take place.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= To occur unexpectedly, by chance or with a low probability.
To encounter by chance.
* 1860 , , The Marble Faun , ch. 30:
(obsolete or dialect) maybe, perhaps.
English catenative verbs
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As a verb allow
is to grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.As a noun happen is
morsel.allow
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(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 verbshappen
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(en verb)Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.}}
- Unexpectedly, in a nook close by the farmhouse, he happened upon a spot where the vintage had actually commenced.