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letting
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letting
(encz) | letting,pronájem n: Zdeněk Brož |
Letting
(gcide) | Let \Let\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Let (Letted (l[e^]t"t[e^]d),
[Obs].); p. pr. & vb. n. Letting.] [OE. leten, l[ae]ten
(past tense lat, let, p. p. laten, leten, lete), AS.
l[=ae]tan (past tense l[=e]t, p. p. l[=ae]ten); akin to
OFries. l[=e]ta, OS. l[=a]tan, D. laten, G. lassen, OHG.
l[=a]zzan, Icel. l[=a]ta, Sw. l[*a]ta, Dan. lade, Goth.
l[=e]tan, and L. lassus weary. The original meaning seems to
have been, to let loose, let go, let drop. Cf. Alas,
Late, Lassitude, Let to hinder.]
1. To leave; to relinquish; to abandon. [Obs. or Archaic,
except when followed by alone or be.]
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He . . . prayed him his voyage for to let.
--Chaucer.
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Yet neither spins nor cards, ne cares nor frets,
But to her mother Nature all her care she lets.
--Spenser.
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Let me alone in choosing of my wife. --Chaucer.
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2. To consider; to think; to esteem. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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3. To cause; to make; -- used with the infinitive in the
active form but in the passive sense; as, let make, i. e.,
cause to be made; let bring, i. e., cause to be brought.
[Obs.]
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This irous, cursed wretch
Let this knight's son anon before him fetch.
--Chaucer.
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He . . . thus let do slay hem all three. --Chaucer.
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Anon he let two coffers make. --Gower.
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4. To permit; to allow; to suffer; -- either affirmatively,
by positive act, or negatively, by neglecting to restrain
or prevent.
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Note: In this sense, when followed by an infinitive, the
latter is commonly without the sign to; as to let us
walk, i. e., to permit or suffer us to walk. Sometimes
there is entire omission of the verb; as, to let [to be
or to go] loose.
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Pharaoh said, I will let you go. --Ex. viii.
28.
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If your name be Horatio, as I am let to know it
is. --Shak.
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5. To allow to be used or occupied for a compensation; to
lease; to rent; to hire out; -- often with out; as, to let
a farm; to let a house; to let out horses.
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6. To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or
contract; -- often with out; as, to let the building of a
bridge; to let out the lathing and the plastering.
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Note: The active form of the infinitive of let, as of many
other English verbs, is often used in a passive sense;
as, a house to let (i. e., for letting, or to be let).
This form of expression conforms to the use of the
Anglo-Saxon gerund with to (dative infinitive) which
was commonly so employed. See Gerund, 2. " Your
elegant house in Harley Street is to let." --Thackeray.
In the imperative mood, before the first person plural,
let has a hortative force. " Rise up, let us go."
--Mark xiv. 42. " Let us seek out some desolate shade."
--Shak.
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To let alone, to leave; to withdraw from; to refrain from
interfering with.
To let blood, to cause blood to flow; to bleed.
To let down.
(a) To lower.
(b) To soften in tempering; as, to let down tools,
cutlery, and the like.
To let fly or To let drive, to discharge with violence,
as a blow, an arrow, or stone. See under Drive, and
Fly.
To let in or To let into.
(a) To permit or suffer to enter; to admit.
(b) To insert, or imbed, as a piece of wood, in a recess
formed in a surface for the purpose.
To let loose, to remove restraint from; to permit to wander
at large.
To let off.
(a) To discharge; to let fly, as an arrow; to fire the
charge of, as a gun.
(b) To release, as from an engagement or obligation.
[Colloq.]
To let out.
(a) To allow to go forth; as, to let out a prisoner.
(b) To extend or loosen, as the folds of a garment; to
enlarge; to suffer to run out, as a cord.
(c) To lease; to give out for performance by contract, as
a job.
(d) To divulge.
To let slide, to let go; to cease to care for. [Colloq.] "
Let the world slide." --Shak.
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letting
(wn) | letting
n 1: property that is leased or rented out or let [syn: lease,
rental, letting] |
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letting
(mass) | letting
- prenájom |
blood-letting
(encz) | blood-letting,krvavý Mgr. Dita Gálová |
letting
(encz) | letting,pronájem n: Zdeněk Brož |
letting down
(encz) | letting down, n: |
subletting
(encz) | subletting,podnájem n: Zdeněk Brož |
Bletting
(gcide) | Blet \Blet\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bletted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Bletting.]
To decay internally when overripe; -- said of fruit.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]Bletting \Blet"ting\, n.
A form of decay seen in fleshy, overripe fruit. --Lindley.
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Bloodletting
(gcide) | Bloodletting \Blood"let`ting\, n. (Med.)
The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by
opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp.
applied to venesection.
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Subletting
(gcide) | Sublet \Sub*let"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sublet; p. pr. & vb. n.
Subletting.]
To underlet; to lease, as when a lessee leases to another
person.
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bloodletting
(wn) | bloodletting
n 1: formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of
the four humors of medieval medicine)
2: indiscriminate slaughter; "a bloodbath took place when the
leaders of the plot surrendered"; "ten days after the
bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name"; "the valley is
no stranger to bloodshed and murder"; "a huge prison battue
was ordered" [syn: bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed,
battue] |
letting
(wn) | letting
n 1: property that is leased or rented out or let [syn: lease,
rental, letting] |
letting down
(wn) | letting down
n 1: the act of causing something to move to a lower level [syn:
lowering, letting down] |
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