might
may
please
would like
can you tell us
ask
by your leave
I'd like to know
bede
bespeak
consent
perm
on request
authorization
if possible
leave
pray
for the asking
CNC
call
imperative mood
take over
could
to order
I'm good
make free of
permish
let me see
I'll pass
call on
undemanded
agree
enjoinder
kindly
accept
because you touch yourself at night
consentee
non-con
request
do you mind
asking
allow
requisition
fill
preconsent
excuse me
consentful
let
allowance
countenance
permit
sanction
refuse
grant
sorry
go ahead
verbal authority
sign off
requisition form
go for it
I beg your pardon
go
do me a favour
clearance
consenting
requester
implied consent
naysaying
requestor
license
permissioned
order
have the pleasure
consensual
facultative
sue
chivvy
petition
diktat
assenting
assentient
send away for
permissive
demand
have
consentfully
solicitation
right you are
authority
authorisation
undemanded
preconsent
consentful
consenting
permissioned
consensual
facultative
assenting
assentient
permissive
please
on request
if possible
pray
for the asking
kindly
consentfully
by your leave
consent
perm
authorization
leave
CNC
call
imperative mood
permish
enjoinder
consentee
non-con
request
asking
requisition
allowance
verbal authority
requisition form
go
clearance
requester
implied consent
naysaying
requestor
diktat
demand
solicitation
sanction
petition
authority
authorisation
might
may
would like
ask
bede
bespeak
take over
could
make free of
call on
agree
accept
allow
fill
let
countenance
permit
call
sanction
refuse
grant
go ahead
sign off
go for it
license
order
have the pleasure
sue
chivvy
petition
send away for
demand
have
consent
verb
- Used in polite requests for permission
- simple past tense of may Used to indicate permission in past tense.
- Used to indicate conditional or possible actions.
- Even though.
- Used to indicate a desired past action that was not done.
- simple past tense of may Used to indicate possibility in past tense.
- Used to express certainty.
noun
verb
- To have permission to, be allowed. Used in granting permission and in questions to make polite requests.
- Expressing a wish (with present subjunctive effect).
- To be able to go.
- Expressing a present possibility; possibly.
- To gather may, or flowers in general.
- Used in modesty, courtesy, or concession, or to soften a question or remark.
- To celebrate May Day.
noun
verb
- To request permission to do something.
- To interrogate or enquire of (a person).
- To put forward (a question) to be answered.
- To request or petition; usually with for.
- To invite.
- To take (a person's situation) as an example.
- To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.
- To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.
- To request (information, or an answer to a question).
noun
phrase
noun
- Permission.
- The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
- The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or only poor ones).
- Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
verb
- To cause, to result in.
- To let be or do without interference.
- To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.
- To transfer possession of after death.
- To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.
- To produce leaves or foliage.
- To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself.
- To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit.
- To depart; to go away from a certain place or state.
- To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with.
- To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.
- To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).
noun
- a request
- a method of contacting a person by phone
- a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition
- a demand
- the characteristic sound produced by a bird
- a brief social visit
- a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement
- a demand for a show of hands in a card game
- an instruction that interrupts the program being executed
- a visit in an official or professional capacity
- (sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee
- the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
verb
- order or request or give a command for
- assign a specified (usually proper) name to
- ascribe a quality to or give a name of a common noun that reflects a quality
- get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
- utter a sudden loud cry
- order, request, or command to come
- pay a brief visit
- call a meeting; invite or command to meet
- read aloud to check for omissions or absentees
- send a message or attempt to reach someone by radio, phone, etc.; make a signal to in order to transmit a message
- utter a characteristic note or cry
- stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather
- greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name
- make a stop in a harbour
- demand payment of (a loan)
- make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands
- give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance
- indicate a decision in regard to
- make a prediction about; tell in advance
- present for redemption before maturation
- challenge (somebody) to make good on a statement; charge with or censure for an offense
- declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee
- lure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal
- order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role
- utter in a loud voice or announce
- challenge the sincerity or truthfulness of
- consider or regard as being
- rouse somebody from sleep with a call
verb
- To appropriate something without permission.
- To become more successful (than someone or something else).
- To assume control of something, especially by force; to usurp.
- To adopt a further responsibility or duty.
- To buy out the ownership of a business.
- To relieve someone temporarily.
- To annex a territory by conquest or invasion.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, over.
noun
phrase
- Used when pondering the results of an action one is doing, or to politely ask for permission to do something
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let, me, see.
- Used as a filled pause to indicating thinking or pondering, not inviting hearer to participate.
- Used to indicate incredulity; wait a minute; hold on
verb
- To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
- To admit to a place or a group.
- To acknowledge patiently without opposition or resistance.
- To endure patiently.
- To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
- To agree to pay.
- To receive officially.
- To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
- To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
- To receive something willingly.
verb
- consent to, give permission; permit
- make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen
- let have
- give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
- make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain
- allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something
- afford possibility
- allow the other (baseball) team to score
- grant as a discount or in exchange
- allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting
noun
- the act of requiring; an authoritative request or demand, especially by a military or public authority that takes something over (usually temporarily) for military or public use
- an official form on which a request is made
- seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized
verb
verb
- To satisfy or obey (an order, request, or requirement).
- To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
- To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full.
- To become full.
- To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
- To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
- To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
- To enter (something), making it full.
- To occupy fully, to take up all of.
- To become pervaded with something.
- To have sexual intercourse with (a female).
noun
- An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled.
- Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity or cut in the layers and exposed by excavation; fill soil.
- An amount that fills a container.
- A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a break between the phrases of a melody.
- The filling of a container or area.
- A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
- Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
- bass fill
- One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
phrase
- Said as a request for an individual's attention.
- Said as a request to pass somebody.
- Said as an expression of unexpected or early farewell.
- Sorry, as an apology.
- Said as a request to repeat information.
- Said, as though as a request to repeat information, in order to indicate disbelief or indignation.
noun
noun
- Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting
- A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.
- A planned deviation between an exact dimension and a nominal or theoretical dimension.
- Acknowledgment.
- A child's allowance; pocket money.
- Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances
- An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose
- A permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry.
- A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, differing by country.
verb
verb
- To assent; to consent.
- To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.
- to give (permission or wish)
- To agree with (someone) on (something); to accept (something) for the sake of argument; to admit to (someone) that (something) is true.
noun
- The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
- The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.
- The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.
- A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the government.
- An application for a grant (monetary boon to aid research or the like).
- The deed or writing by which such a transfer is made.
noun
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- An attempt, a try.
- Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- An act; the working or operation.
- A period of activity.
- Synonym: green light
- A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
- Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try
- The act of going.
verb
- To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.)
- To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
- To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- To be spent or used up.
- To belong (somewhere).
- To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- To make the (specified) sound.
- To fit.
- To urinate or defecate.
- To tend (toward a result).
- To be lost.
- To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- I woke up just before the clock went.
- To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- Let's go halves on this.
- Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way
- To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- I went at him with a knife.
- To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group.
- To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- To attend.
- To be sold.
- To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- Synonyms: become, turn, change into
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- To sound; to make a noise.
- To leave; to move away.
- To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- To come to (a certain condition or state).
- To start; to begin (an action or process).
- To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate
- To attack.
- To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
- To date.
- Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
- Synonyms: function, work, operate
- To break down or decay.
- To be accepted.
- We've only gone twenty miles today.
- To be valid.
- To have a certain record.
- To take a turn, especially in a game.
- To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- To be out.
- To resort (to).
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- To yield or weigh.
- Those babies go five tons apiece.
- To be discarded or disposed of.
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- To lead (to a place); to give access to.
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- Anything goes around here.
- Why don’t you go with us?
- Let's go this way for a while.
- To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
- To fight or attack.
- How long can you go without water?
- To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
- To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- Expressing encouragement or approval.
- To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
- To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- To die.
- To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- To travel or pass along.
- To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
adj
noun
- A permission for a vehicle to proceed, or for a person to travel.
- The first disposal in a chain that leaves the area of a stoppage, or a disposal that leaves the area of a stoppage itself.
- The act of clearing or something (such as a space) cleared.
- A permission to have access to sensitive or secret documents or other information.
- The act of kicking a ball away from the goal one is defending.
- The act of potting all the remaining balls on a table at one visit.
- Clear or net profit.
- The settlement of transactions involving securities or means of payment such as checks by means of a clearing house.
- A permission to use something, usually intellectual property, that is legally, but not otherwise, protected.
- The height or width of a tunnel, bridge or other passage, or the distance between a vehicle and the walls or roof of such passage; a gap, headroom.
- The distance between two moving objects, especially between parts of a machine
- A sale of merchandise, especially at significantly reduced prices, usually in order to make room for new merchandise or updated versions of the same merchandise.
- The removal of harmful substances from the blood; renal clearance.
- Removal of pieces from a rank, file or diagonal so that a bishop, rook or queen is free to move along it.
- The act of leaving the area of a stoppage.
verb
- To give formal authorization to use.
- To give permission or freedom to; accept.
- To authorize officially.
- To acquire authorization to use, usually in exchange for compensation.
- To permit (as grammatically correct).
noun
- The legal terms under which a person is allowed to use a product, especially software.
- A legal document giving official permission to do something; a permit.
- Freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behaviour or speech).
- Excessive freedom; lack of due restraint.
verb
- make a request for something
- give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority
- issue commands or orders for
- bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations
- bring order to or into
- place in a certain order
- appoint to a clerical posts
- arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events
- assign a rank or rating to
noun
- (often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed
- a degree in a continuum of size or quantity
- established customary state (especially of society)
- logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements
- a condition of regular or proper arrangement
- a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)
- a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities
- a formal association of people with similar interests
- a body of rules followed by an assembly
- a group of person living under a religious rule
- (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families
- a request for something to be made, supplied, or served
- (architecture) one of original three styles of Greek architecture distinguished by the type of column and entablature used or a style developed from the original three by the Romans
- the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement
adj
- with permission, with consensus, without coercion; allowed without objecting or resisting
- Contralaterally corresponding rather than ipsilaterally induced
- existing, or made, by the mutual consent of two or more parties
- excited or caused by sensation, sympathy, or reflex action, and not by conscious volition
verb
noun
verb
- To ask forcefully for information.
- To require of someone.
- To claim a right to something.
- To request forcefully.
- To issue a summons to court.
noun
- An urgent request.
- The desire to purchase goods and services.
- An order.
- The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price.
- A forceful claim for something.
- A requirement.
- More precisely peak demand or peak load, a measure of the maximum power load of a utility's customer over a short period of time; the power load integrated over a specified time interval.
verb
- To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
- To be afflicted with, suffer from.
- To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
- To believe, buy, be taken in by.
- To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
- To obtain.
- To include as a part, ingredient, or feature.
- See have to.
- To defeat in a fight; take.
- To accept as a romantic partner.
- To undertake or perform (an action or activity).
- To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
- Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.
- To cause to be.
- To be able to speak (a language).
- To hold, as something at someone's disposal.
- Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)
- To trick, to deceive.
- To experience, go through, undergo.
- To allow; to tolerate.
- To depict as being.
- To inflict punishment or retribution on.
- To make an observation of (a bird species).
- To possess, own.
- To engage in sexual intercourse with.
- To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
- To consume or use up (a particular substance or resource, especially food or drink).
- Used in forming the perfect aspect.
- To host someone; to take in as a guest.
- To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.
- To give birth to.
noun
noun
- official permission or approval
- the power or right to give orders or make decisions
- (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others
- an expert whose views are taken as definitive
- freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities
- an administrative unit of government
- an authoritative written work
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