Admission

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of admitting or allowing to enter.
  • n. The state of being allowed to enter.
  • n. Right to enter; access.
  • n. The price required or paid for entering; an entrance fee.
  • n. A confession, as of having committed a crime.
  • n. A voluntary acknowledgment of truth.
  • n. A fact or statement granted or admitted; a concession.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The act or practice of admitting.
  • n. Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach.
  • n. The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something asserted; acknowledgment; concession.
  • n. Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.
  • n. A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence
  • n. Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented.
  • n. The cost or fee associated with attendance or entry.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act or practice of admitting.
  • n. Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach.
  • n. The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something �serted; acknowledgment; concession.
  • n. Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.
  • n. A fact, point, or statement admitted.
  • n. Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of admitting or allowing to enter; the state of being admitted; entrance afforded by permission, by provision or existence of means, or by the removal of obstacles: as, the admission of aliens into a country; the admission of light into a room by a window or by opening the window.
  • n. Admittance; power or permission to enter; entrance; access; power to approach: as, to grant a person admission.
  • n. The price paid for entrance; admission fee: as, the admission was one dollar.
  • n. Eccles.: In the Church of England, an act of a bishop accepting a candidate presented to a benefice.
  • n. In the Presbyterian churches, especially in Scotland, a similar official act of a presbytery admitting a minister to his church.
  • n. The act of expressing assent to an argument or proposition, especially one urged by an opponent or adversary; hence, a point or statement admitted; concession; allowance: as, this admission lost him the argument.
  • n. Acknowledgment; confession of a charge, an error, or a crime: as, he made full admission of his guilt.
  • n. In law: A voluntary acknowledgment that something is true.
  • n. The act of receiving evidence offered upon a judicial investigation, as competent for consideration in reaching a decision.
  • n. Specifically, in engineering: Entrance of motor fluid (as steam, air, or water) into a cylinder for the purpose of driving a piston.
  • n. The portion of a full traverse of a piston during which the motor fluid is allowed to enter the cylinder.
  • n. The point in the traverse at which such entrance of motor fluid begins.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the fee charged for admission
  • n. an acknowledgment of the truth of something
  • n. the right to enter
  • n. the act of admitting someone to enter
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