Admitting

Definition

admit / ǝd'mÇt / v ၁။ ~ to sth/ doing sth ဝန္ခံသည္။ George would never admit to being wrong. ❍ The prisoner has admitted his guilt. ❍ I wrestled with the problem for weeks but finally had to admit defeat. ❍ I admit my mistake/ (that) I was wrong. ❍ I must admit I felt a little nervous. ❍ He admitted having stolen the car. ❍ It is now generally admitted to have been (ie Most people agree and accept that it was) a mistake. ❍ 'You may be right,' she admitted. ၂။ ~ sb/sth (to sth) (က) ဝင္ခြင့္ ျပဳသည္။ ဝင္ႏိုင္သည္။ Children are not to be admitted. ❍ The small window admitted very little light. ❍ Each ticket admits two people to the party. ❍ I was finally admitted to the great man's presence. (ခ) လက္ခံသည္။ တက္ခြင့္ျပဳသည္။ The music department admits sixty new students every year. ❍ He was admitted to hospital with minor burns. ၃။ ( fml ) လက္ခံႏိုင္သည္။ ကာသည္။ ကန္သည္။ The theatre admits only 250 people. ၄။ ~ of sth ( fml ) ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ေျခရိွသည္။ လက္ခံႏိုင္သည္။ The question admits of only one answer. ❏ admittedly adv (esp at the beginning of a clause) ဝန္ခံရမည္မွာ။ မျငင္းသာသည္မွာ။ ဖြင့္ဟရမည္မွာ။ Admittedly, he didn't know that at the time. ❍ The plan, admittedly, is not without its difficulties.

Examples

1. Clarke admitted his disappointment at the court’s decision
2. but said he would fight on.
3. ‘I can’t sing at all
4. ’ he admitted.
5. [admit (that)] : Rachel admits that she had a hard time understanding the assignment.
6. [admit to] : I reluctantly admitted to being nervous about the test.
7. [admit doing something] : He is unwilling to admit being jealous of his brother.
8. [have (got) to admit/must admit] : It was a good effort
9. I’ve got to admit.
10. She admitted two charges of handling stolen goods.
11. [admit (that)] : She freely admits that she made mistakes.
12. [admit to] : In court he admitted to lying about the accident.
13. [admit doing something] : Davis admitted causing death by careless driving.
14. After collapsing
15. she was rushed to hospital
16. where she was admitted.
17. [admit someone to something] : They admitted John to the psychiatric unit of the Royal Covenant Hospital.
18. Latecomers will not be admitted until the interval.
19. [admit someone to something] : A group ticket admits six people to the zoo and museum.
20. The Stock Exchange will admit six firms as new members.
21. [admit someone to something] : The Baltic States were admitted to the United Nations in 1991.