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Let   /lɛt/   Listen
Let

verb
(past let; past part. let; pres. part. letting)
1.
Make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen.  Synonyms: allow, permit.  "This sealed door won't allow the water come into the basement" , "This will permit the rain to run off"
2.
Actively cause something to happen.
3.
Consent to, give permission.  Synonyms: allow, countenance, permit.  "I won't let the police search her basement" , "I cannot allow you to see your exam"
4.
Cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition.  Synonyms: get, have.  "This let me in for a big surprise" , "He got a girl into trouble"
5.
Leave unchanged.
6.
Grant use or occupation of under a term of contract.  Synonyms: lease, rent.
noun
1.
A brutal terrorist group active in Kashmir; fights against India with the goal of restoring Islamic rule of India.  Synonyms: Army of the Pure, Army of the Righteous, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, Lashkar-e-Toiba.
2.
A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court; the ball must be served again.  Synonym: net ball.



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"Let" Quotes from Famous Books



... me the sun and the sky, The wide sky. Let it blaze with light, Let it burn with heat—I care not. The sun is the blood of my heart, The wind of the plain my breath. No woodsman am I. My eyes are set For the wide low lines. The level rim Of the prairie land is mine. The semi-gloom of the pointed firs, The sleeping darks of the mountain ...
— The Trail of the Goldseekers - A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse • Hamlin Garland
... the audacious falsehood which disfigures the story in Pope's way of telling it. Without the personal interest, the incidents were nothing; and with that interest, at starting, Pope's romance must have defeated itself by its fabulous coloring. Let me recall to the reader the principal lines in ...
— Theological Essays and Other Papers v2 • Thomas de Quincey
... life which might have ended fatally was to come to them sooner than they expected. Seeing that they were now on Sidcotinga Station country, and that they had not been molested for six days, Mick decided to let the horses go without being watched that night, taking the precaution of tying up his own saddle-horse ...
— In the Musgrave Ranges • Jim Bushman
... Let us now suppose that the original agent or cause, instead of being instantaneous, is permanent. Whatever effect has been produced up to a given time, would (unless prevented by the intervention of some new cause) subsist ...
— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill
... let me drive," Pauline suggested. "I drove a great deal when I was staying with the Warehams. ...
— Miss Merivale's Mistake • Mrs. Henry Clarke


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