Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To refuse to allow.
- transitive verb To reject as invalid, untrue, or improper.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To refuse or withhold permission to or for; refuse to allow, sanction, grant, or authorize; disapprove: as, to
disallow items in an account. - To decline or refuse to receive; reject; disown.
- Synonyms To prohibit, forbid, condemn, set aside, repudiate.
- To refuse allowance or toleration; withhold sanction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To refuse to allow; to deny the force or validity of; to disown and reject.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
refuse toallow - verb To
reject asinvalid ,untrue , orimproper
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb command against
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Of course I might not get the point I can almost assure you that whether to exempt admins from the username disallow was never considered, so it is neither oversight nor bug.
phpBB.com 2009
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Of course, any site can shut down the indexing of its content by Google any time it wants with a simple "disallow" in its robots. txt file.
Arianna Huffington: Journalism 2009: Desperate Metaphors, Desperate Revenue Models, And The Desperate Need For Better Journalism Arianna Huffington 2010
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Of course, any site can shut down the indexing of its content by Google any time it wants with a simple "disallow" in its robots.txt file.
Arianna Huffington: Journalism 2009: Desperate Metaphors, Desperate Revenue Models, And The Desperate Need For Better Journalism Arianna Huffington 2010
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I don't understand this – what did I "disallow" in my "challenges"
Bunny and a Book 2008
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I don't understand this – what did I "disallow" in my "challenges"
Bunny and a Book 2008
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, convinced Sen. Harry Reid that there should be a vote to "disallow" the Environmental Protection Agency's scientific finding that global warming represents a danger to human health.
Michael Kieschnick: The Senate Almost Votes to Join the Flat Earth Society 2010
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Of course, any site can shut down the indexing of its content by Google any time it wants with a simple "disallow" in its robots. txt file.
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McEwen said he personally contacted the parents of all 17 boys on the list before calling a state meeting of the church to "disallow" Dykes, or limit his church involvement, and counsel him to "repent of his errors."
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2010
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The Commerce Department should "disallow" an additional $2.273 million in claimed expenses, opening the door for the state government and other fund-providers to seek refunds
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The "disallow" part specifies what content you don't want the search engines to index.
duane9 commented on the word disallow
Advocates: PSC should disallow Xcel hike
--Grand Forks Herald
http://www.grandforksherald.com/articles/index.cfm?id=80088§ion=News
June 26, 2008