LET
\lˈɛt], \lˈɛt], \l_ˈɛ_t]\
Definitions of LET
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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give permission; "She permitted her son to visit her estranged husband"; "I won't let the police search her basement"; "I cannot allow you to see your exam"
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grant use or occupation of under a term of contract; "I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners"
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leave unchanged; "let it be"
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actively cause something to happen; "I let it be known that I was not interested"
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grant use or occupation of under a term of contract; "I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners"
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leave unchanged; "let it be"
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actively cause something to happen; "I let it be known that I was not interested"
By Princeton University
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To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose.
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A stroke in which a ball touches the top of the net in passing over.
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To leave; to relinquish; to abandon.
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To consider; to think; to esteem.
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To forbear.
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To be let or leased; as, the farm lets for $500 a year. See note under Let, v. t.
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A retarding; hindrance; obstacle; impediment; delay; - common in the phrase without let or hindrance, but elsewhere archaic.
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To cause; to make; - used with the infinitive in the active form but in the passive sense; as, let make, i. e., cause to be made; let bring, i. e., cause to be brought.
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To permit; to allow; to suffer; - either affirmatively, by positive act, or negatively, by neglecting to restrain or prevent.
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To allow to be used or occupied for a compensation; to lease; to rent; to hire out; - often with out; as, to let a farm; to let a house; to let out horses.
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To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; - often with out; as, to let the building of a bridge; to let out the lathing and the plastering.
By Oddity Software
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To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose.
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A stroke in which a ball touches the top of the net in passing over.
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To leave; to relinquish; to abandon.
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To consider; to think; to esteem.
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To forbear.
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To be let or leased; as, the farm lets for $500 a year. See note under Let, v. t.
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A retarding; hindrance; obstacle; impediment; delay; - common in the phrase without let or hindrance, but elsewhere archaic.
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To cause; to make; - used with the infinitive in the active form but in the passive sense; as, let make, i. e., cause to be made; let bring, i. e., cause to be brought.
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To permit; to allow; to suffer; - either affirmatively, by positive act, or negatively, by neglecting to restrain or prevent.
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To allow to be used or occupied for a compensation; to lease; to rent; to hire out; - often with out; as, to let a farm; to let a house; to let out horses.
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To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; - often with out; as, to let the building of a bridge; to let out the lathing and the plastering.
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of Let
By Noah Webster.
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Rate of energy dissipation along the path of charged particles. In radiobiology and health physics, exposure is measured in kiloelectron volts per micrometer of tissue (keV/micrometer T).
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To slacken or loose restraint upon: to give leave or power to: to allow, permit, suffer: to grant to a tenant or hirer:-pr.p. letting; pa.t. and pa.p. let.
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(B.) To prevent: to hinder.
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(law) Hinderance, obstruction: delay.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To permit; give leave to.
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To hire; rent; be leased or hired.
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To hinder or impede; obstruct; oppose.
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That which hinders; an obstacle.
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A termination forming diminutives from French and English nouns; as, gimlet, tablet.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A retarding; hindrance.
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To allow, permit, or suffer; to give leave or power to; to lease; to grant possession and use for a compensation; in the imperative, followed by the first and third persons, it expresses desiro or wish; by the first person plural, exhortation or entreaty; by the third person, it implies permission or command addressed to an inferior. To let alone, to suffer to remain without intermeddling. To let down, to permit to sink or fall; to lower. To let loose, to free from restraint. To let in or into, to permit to enter. To let blood, to open a vein and suffer the blood to flow out. To let out, to suffer to escape; to lease or let to hire. To let off, to discharge; to let fly or cause to explode. To let fly, to send forth or discharge with violence, as an arrow or stone.
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To be leased. To let on, to show knowledge.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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To allow, suffer, or permit; to grant to a tenant; to put to hire; to give power or leave to; to leave.
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To let alone, to suffer to remain; to let be, to leave off; to discontinue; to let go; to let blood, to free it from its confinement; to suffer it to flow out of the vein; to let down, to lower; to permit to sink; to let drive or fly, to send forth or discharge with violence, as a stone; to let in, to allow to enter; to insert, as a piece of wood; to let into, to give admission; to make acquainted with; to let loose, to free from restraint; to let off, to discharge, as an arrow or gun; to release, as from an engagement; to suffer to escape; to let on, in Scot., to seem to observe anything; to mention a thing; to let out, to suffer to escape; to give to hire or farm.
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To impede; to obstruct; to hinder-in this sense used as a noun, in the phrase, "without let or hindrance".
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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