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# permit

verb (permit, permits, permitted, permitting); noun (a permit, permits)

«permit» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (verb, formal) To allow someone to do something, or allow something to happen. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/permit/#m1)
2. (noun) An official paper that gives you permission to do something. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/permit/#m2)
3. (verb) To make something possible: "weather permitting". [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/permit/#m3)

### In the lessons

In rules and safety signs: "no dogs permitted", "swimming is not permitted". A parking permit or work permit is an official document. Phrases: weather permitting, permit to, not permitted.

### Examples

- Dogs are not permitted in the café. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/permit/#x1)
- Mum permitted us to stay up late. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/permit/#x2)
- We'll have a picnic, weather permitting. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/permit/#x3)
- You need a permit to fish in this lake. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/permit/#x4)
- Running is not permitted in the corridors. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/permit/#x5)
- Dad showed his parking permit. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/permit/#x6)
- Time did not permit a second game. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/permit/#x7)
- I could not permit such a thing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/permit/#x8)

### Note

Verb stressed "per-MIT", noun "PER-mit". Doubles t: permitted, permitting. More formal than "allow" or "let". Noun of the action: permission.

## In Jewish tradition

In rules and safety signs: "no dogs permitted", "swimming is not permitted". A parking permit or work permit is an official document. Phrases: weather permitting, permit to, not permitted.

### Examples

- These ten Sephiroth which are, moreover, ineffable, have their end even as their beginning, conjoined, even as is a flame to a burning coal: for our God is superlative in his unity, and does not permit any second one. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/permit/#x1)
- "Besides, who permitted Rabbi Akiba to write tiie Sefer Yetzirah ? (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/permit/#x2)

### Note

Verb stressed "per-MIT", noun "PER-mit". Doubles t: permitted, permitting. More formal than "allow" or "let". Noun of the action: permission.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «permit» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/permit/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«permit» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/permit.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «permit» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/permit/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«permit» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/permit.html) on Mova free.