admit

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To grant to be real, valid, or true; acknowledge or concede.
• intransitive verb To disclose or confess (guilt or an error, for example). synonym: acknowledge.
• intransitive verb To afford opportunity for; permit.
• intransitive verb To allow to enter.
• intransitive verb To grant the right to enter.
• intransitive verb To accept into an organization or group.
• intransitive verb To accept (someone) as an inpatient in a hospital.
• intransitive verb To accept into evidence as relevant and otherwise admissible.
• intransitive verb To afford possibility.
• intransitive verb To allow entrance; afford access.
• intransitive verb To make acknowledgment; confess.
• noun One who is admitted.

from The Century Dictionary.

• 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.
• To give right or means of entrance to: as, a ticket admits one into a theater; this key will admit you to the garden.
• 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.
• To have capacity for the admission of at one time: as, this passage admits two abreast.
• To grant in argument; receive as true; concede; allow: as, the argument or fact is admitted.
• To permit, grant, allow, or be capable of: as, the words do not admit such a construction. See II.
• To acknowledge; own; confess: as, he admitted his guilt.
• 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.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb serve as a means of entrance
• verb declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of
• verb have room for; hold without crowding
• verb afford possibility
• verb allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of
• verb admit into a group or community
• verb give access or entrance to
• verb allow to enter; grant entry to