admit

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To permit to enter: A crack in the wall admitted some light.
2. v. To provide the right or a means of entrance to: A ticket that admits the whole group.
3. v. To permit to exercise the rights, functions, or privileges of: was admitted to the bar association.
4. v. To have room for; accommodate.
5. v. To afford opportunity for; permit: We must admit no delay in the proceedings.
6. v. To grant to be real, valid, or true; acknowledge: admit the truth. See Synonyms at acknowledge.
7. v. To grant as true or valid, as for the sake of argument; concede.
8. v. To afford possibility: a problem that admits of no solution.
9. v. To allow entrance; afford access: a door admitting to the hall.
10. v. To make acknowledgment.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To suffer to enter; grant or afford entrance to: as, to admit a student into college; windows admit light and air; to admit a serious thought into the mind.
2. To give right or means of entrance to: as, a ticket admits one into a theater; this key will admit you to the garden.
3. To permit to exercise a certain function; grant power to hold a certain office: as, he was admitted to the bar; to admit a man to the ministry.
4. To have capacity for the admission of at one time: as, this passage admits two abreast.
5. To grant in argument; receive as true; concede; allow: as, the argument or fact is admitted.
6. To permit, grant, allow, or be capable of: as, the words do not admit such a construction. See II.
7. To acknowledge; own; confess: as, he admitted his guilt. Synonyms Acknowledge, Admit, Confess, etc. (see acknowledge); to let in, receive, take in.
8. To give warrant or allowance; grant opportunity or permission: with of: as, circumstances do not admit of this; the text does not admit of this interpretation.

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take
2. v. To give a right of entrance.
3. v. To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise
4. v. To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny; to own or confess
5. v. To be capable of; to permit. In this sense, of may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. serve as a means of entrance
2. v. declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of
3. v. have room for; hold without crowding
4. v. afford possibility
5. v. allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of
6. v. admit into a group or community
7. v. give access or entrance to
8. v. allow to enter; grant entry to