allow

allow /ǝ'laƱ/ v

၁။ (က) ခွင့်ပေးသည်။ ခွင့်ပြုသည်။ အခြေအနေ တစ်ရပ်ရပ်ကို ဖြစ်ပေါ်ခွင့်ပေးသည်၊ လက်ခံသည်။ My boss doesn't allow me to use the telephone for private calls. ❍ Passengers are not allowed to smoke. ❍ Allow the water to come to boil. ❍ I didn't really want to go but I allowed myself to be persuaded. ❍ (fig ) She allowed her mind to wander.(ခ) ခွင့်ပြုသည်။ လမ်းဖွင့်ပေးသည်။ Photography is not allowed in the theatre. ❍ We don't allow smoking in our house. ❍ The invention of printing allowed a huge increase inliteracy.(ဂ) ဝင်ခွင့်ပြုသည်။ (ငြင်းပယ်ဝါကျများ၌ သုံးလေ့ရှိသည်။ ) Dogs not allowed/No dogs allowed.
၂။ (အခွင့်) ရသည်။ (တစ်စုံ တစ်ရာ အခွင့်အရေး စသည်) ပေးသည်။ How much holiday are you allowed? ❍ I'm not allowed visitors. ❍ I allow myself one glass of wine a day. ❍ (fig ) He allowed his imagination free rein.
၃။ ~ sth (for sb/sth) ခန့်တွက် သည်။ ထည့်တွက်သည်။ တွက်သည်။ allow four sandwiches each/per head ❍ I would allow half an hour to get to the station. ❍ You must allow three metres for a long-sleeved dress.
၄။ (က) လက်ခံသည်။ The judge allowed my claim. ❍ He allowed that I had the right to appeal. (ခ) (fml ) ဝန်ခံသည်။ လက်ခံသည်။ Even if we allow that the poet was mad… ❍ He was very helpful when his mother was ill— I'll allow you that.
❏ allowable adj တရားဝင်လက်ခံနိုင်သော။ allowable expenses.
❏ allow for sb/sth [PHRV ] ထည့်တွက်သည်။ It will take you half an hour to get to the station, allowing for traffic delays.
❏ allow sb in, out, up, etc [PHRV ] (ဝင်၊ ထွက်၊ ထ စသည်) ခွင့်ပြုသည်။ She won't allow the children in (to the house) until they've wiped their feet. ❍ The patient was allowed up (ie permitted to get out of bed) after 10 days.
❏ allow me [IDM ] ကူညီပါရစေ။ ကူညီခွင့်ပြုပါ။ These bags look heavy—allow me!
❏ allow of sth [PHRV ] (fml ) ခွင့်ပြုသည်။ လက်ခံနိုင်ခြေ ရှိသည်။ The facts allow of only one explanation.