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Acceptance to a college
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admission
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act or practice of admitting. 2 Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach. 3 The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something asserted; acknowledgment; concession. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Admission \Ad*mis"sion\, n. [L. admissio: cf. F. admission. See Admit .] The act or practice of admitting. Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach. What numbers groan for sad admission there! --Young. The granting of ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "acceptance, reception, approval," from Latin admissionem (nominative admissio ) "a letting in," noun of action from past participle stem of admittere (see admit ). Meaning "an acknowledging" is from 1530s. Sense of "a literal act of letting ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Admission may refer to: University and college admission Admission (law) , a statement that may be used in court against the person making it "Admissions" (CSI: NY), an episode of CSI: NY Admissions (film) , a 2011 short film starring James Cromwell Admission ...
Usage examples of admission.
Marathe was an addicted man waiting for seeking treatment by admission.
The Managers of the House objected to the admission of the testimony and the question of its admissibility was argued at length by General Butler, by Judge Curtis, and by Mr.
He left the price of admission on the little desk to his left and as an afterthought, tossed in something for the lock.
But to conclude from any such admissions that a systematic policy of promoting individual and national amelioration should be abandoned in wholly unnecessary.
It was his home-from-home, his safe haven, his general amnestic, his painless admission of defeat.
Miss Julp, had arrived at Arling Lodge and been given immediate admission.
Salgado assigned Chester a tentative bipolar diagnosis and told the charge nurse on Eight East that he suspected that her new admission had slept for no more than a few hours over the course of the entire last week.
CHAPTER XIX BACK FROM DEATH ALTHOUGH Dana Brye produced amazement by his unexpected entrance, no one was startled at the admission he made.
The interviews allowed us to retrieve, from the murderers themselves, first-hand information about patterns of values and beliefs, patterns of thinking, levels of recall of the crimes, and admission of responsibility for the murders.
The admission of the gray nerve cells of the brain, as the material substratum through which sensations are received and volitions returned, does not exclude the necessity of a dynamical cause for the metamorphosing phenomenon.
Negro teacher and educator might as well admit the fact of their incompetency and with the admission bend themselves with renewed energy to hard study, laying aside all bogus degrees and meaningless titles, and acknowledge the fact that they are yet intellectual pigmies.
Stockton, seven senators and thirty-one members of the Assembly forwarded to the Senate of the United States a protest against his admission, for the reason that he was not elected by a majority of the votes of the joint meeting of the Legislature.
It was the admission of a doubt that he might expect to enroll them collectively.
On admission to the hospital she was semi-comatose, almost pulseless, cold, and exhibiting all the signs of extreme hemorrhage and shock.
A two-way cock permits the admission of gas into the gasometer and thence into the testing box.