(v. t.) To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause.
(v. t.) To give a right of entrance; as, a ticket admits one into a playhouse.
(v. t.) To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise; as, to admit an attorney to practice law; the prisoner was admitted to bail.
(v. t.) To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny; to own or confess; as, the argument or fact is admitted; he admitted his guilt.
(v. t.) To be capable of; to permit; as, the words do not admit such a construction. In this sense, of may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Wales international and Port Vale defender Clayton McDonald both admitted having sex with the victim, – McDonald was found not guilty of the same charge.
(2) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
(3) But RWE admitted it had often only been able to retain customers with expired contracts by offering them new deals with more favourable conditions.
(4) 2.35pm: West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has admitted that a deal to land Miroslav Klose is unlikely to go through following the striker's star performances in South Africa.
(5) The hospital whose A&E unit has been threatened with closure on safety grounds has admitted that four patients died after errors by staff in the emergency department and other areas.
(6) Veterans admitted to a 90-day alcoholism treatment program were administered the MMPI, and those who completed the program were retested before discharge.
(7) Of the 138 patients who were admitted to the study, only seventy-one (51 per cent) could be followed for an average of 3.5 years (a typical return rate of urban trauma centers).
(8) A total of 1,268 patients admitted to hospital wards were kept under surveillance by one observer throughout their stay in hospital.
(9) At the trial Arena admitted involvement in criminal activity, but insisted he was innocent of the murders.
(10) The denial of justice to victims of British torture, some of which Britain admits, is set to continue.
(11) An analysis of 249 cases of neontal tetanus admitted to Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, between January 1971 and December 1974, has been presented.
(12) Couples applying to in vitro fertilization were admitted into this project when the sperm concentration was greater than 20 million per mL and motility greater than 30 per cent.
(13) All patients with puerperal psychosis admitted to the Royal Edinburgh Hospital within 90 days of childbirth during the periods 1880-90 and 1971-80 were compared.
(14) A 45-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with complaints of fever and lumbago.
(15) The ratio of male:female students admitted has fallen from 3.4:1 in 1968 to 1.4:1 in 1987.
(16) On 18 March 1996, the force agreed, without admitting any wrongdoing by any officer, to pay Tomkins £40,000 compensation, and £70,000 for his legal costs.
(17) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
(18) The findings provide additional evidence that, for at least some cases, the likelihood of a physician's admitting a patient to the hospital is influenced by the patient's living arrangements, travel time to the physician's office, and the extent to which medical care would cause a financial hardship for the patient.
(19) Life events were collected (using the Bedford College method) in 78 women patients aged 15-40 yr, of whom 39 were admitted for the removal of an appendix which proved to be normal at operation and in whom no organic cause for their pain was found, and a matched group of 39 parasuicide patients.
(20) Five of the children presented an "aplastic crisis," for example, a sudden decrease in hemoglobin concentration associated with absence of reticulocytes in the peripheral blood, and four were admitted with unremitting severe pain because of a "vaso-occlusive crisis."
Admitter
Definition:
(n.) One who admits.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that the increase of AMI patients admitted to our hospital was due to an increase in the hospitalization rate of AMI patients and the establishment of the coronary care unit (CCU) which allowed the admittance of patients who might have been declared dead out-of-hospital in the past.
(2) The dominating reason for admittance is heart disease.
(3) None of the patients was suspected of having abdominal typhus at the time of admittance.
(4) Measurements were made of the time course and amplitude of the change in real part of admittance, DeltaG, of a suspension of frog rod outer segments, following a flash of light bleaching about 1% of the rhodopsin content of the rods.
(5) After emergency admittance to hospital the ECG showed 3 degrees A-V block, requiring temporary pacemaker insertion.
(6) In our environment, there is a high percentage of admittances despite the fact that a positive outcome is reached in virtually all cases: only 1 exitus out of 103 cases.
(7) On admittance to the hospital, hyperpigmentation was also present.
(8) Six patients were in coma on admittance, 1 was confused, and 4 were conscious.
(9) They showed remarkable differences concerning the diagnosis of admittance, age and other factors related to the risk of infection.
(10) The blood samples were taken upon the patients admittance to the hospital and repeated every 6 hours until the 24th hour after admittance.
(11) The short term evolution suggests that the acute process can be prolonged for more than 1 month after hospital admittance, and the altered auditory function tends to persist over the mid term.
(12) Within this limit the spectral intensities of current and voltage noise are given by the frequency-dependent admittance, which in turn is closely linked to the relaxation-time spectrum of the transport system.
(13) Most of the respondents who do not gain admittance to medical school on reapplications still aspire to doctoral-level degrees, but only half remain in the health area.
(14) Patients were clinically examined before admittance to the study and at 1, 2, 3 and 6 months after treatment initiation (one capsule daily for a period of 10 days per month during 3 consecutive months).
(15) The results obtained from this investigation don't show significant differences between the suppressors and nonsuppressors based on any of the following variables: weight loss, age, duration of the illness, weight at admittance, percentage of ideal weight and cortisol and ACTH baseline levels.
(16) A computer corrected for the ear-canal volume utilizing measurements made at ear-canal pressures of 0 and --350 daPa and then converted the conductance and susceptance values into admittance and impedance units.
(17) The present study was undertaken for the purpose of studying the clinical validity of static admittance values in 42 confirmed otosclerotic ears.
(18) Observation of the conductance component of admittance consistently required higher intensity levels to elicit the acoustic reflex.
(19) An admittance function was defined as the percentage of the rays reaching the rhabdom with respect to those entering the ommatidium.
(20) We’ll continue to make our views on these issues known to leaders in Washington and elsewhere.” As well as halting Syrian arrivals indefinitely, the president’s order suspends the admittance of all refugees to the US for 120 days.