Allow

Definition

allow /ǝ'laƱ/ v ၁။ (က) ခြင့္ေပးသည္။ ခြင့္ျပဳသည္။ အေျခအေန တစ္ရပ္ရပ္ကို ျဖစ္ေပၚခြင့္ေပးသည္၊ လက္ခံသည္။ 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) ခြင့္ျပဳသည္။ လမ္းဖြင့္ေပးသည္။ 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) ဝင္ခြင့္ျပဳသည္။ (ျငင္းပယ္ဝါက်မ်ား၌ သံုးေလ့ရိွသည္။ ) Dogs not allowed/No dogs allowed. ၂။ (အခြင့္) ရသည္။ (တစ္စံု တစ္ရာ အခြင့္အေရး စသည္) ေပးသည္။ 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) ခန္႔တြက္ သည္။ ထည့္တြက္သည္။ တြက္သည္။ 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) လက္ခံသည္။ The judge allowed my claim. ❍ He allowed that I had the right to appeal. (ခ) ( fml ) ဝန္ခံသည္။ လက္ခံသည္။ 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 တရားဝင္လက္ခံႏိုင္ေသာ။ allowable expenses. ❏ allow for sb/sth [ PHRV ] ထည့္တြက္သည္။ It will take you half an hour to get to the station, allowing for traffic delays. ❏ allow sb in, out, up, etc [ PHRV ] (ဝင္၊ ထြက္၊ ထ စသည္) ခြင့္ျပဳသည္။ 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 ] ကူညီပါရေစ။ ကူညီခြင့္ျပဳပါ။ These bags look heavy—allow me! ❏ allow of sth [ PHRV ] ( fml ) ခြင့္ျပဳသည္။ လက္ခံႏိုင္ေျခ ရိွသည္။ The facts allow of only one explanation.

Examples

1. I’m sorry
2. sir
3. but smoking is not allowed.
4. [allow someone to do something] : She only allows the children to watch television at weekends.
5. I’m not allowed to drive my dad’s car.
6. [allow someone something] : Some prisoners are allowed visitors.
7. [allow yourself something] : I’m on a diet but I allow myself an occasional piece of cake.
8. [allow someone in/back/through etc] : If you leave the club
9. you will not be allowed back in.
10. [allow something to do something] : Allow the cake to cool for five minutes before taking it out of the tin.
11. [allow someone to do something] : Unfortunately
12. they didn’t allow me to explain the thinking behind my decision.
13. [allow someone to do something] : DVD allows you to record programmes and watch them later.
14. Please allow 28 days for delivery.
15. How much rice do you allow for each person?
16. This evidence will not be allowed in court.
17. [allow that] : She allowed that the matter was serious.