Definition of let in English English dictionary
- To hinder, prevent
- A hindrance
without let or hindrance (on all commonwealth passports).
- To cause (+ bare infinitive)
Can you let me know what time you'll be arriving?.
- To allow, not to prevent (+ infinitive, usually without to)
After he knocked for hours, I decided to let him come in.
- To allow possession of (a property etc.) in exchange for rent
I decided to let the farmhouse to a couple while I was working abroad.
- To allow the release of (a fluid)
The physicians let about a pint of his blood, but to no avail.
- The hindrance caused by the net during serve, only if the ball falls legally
- {n} an hindrance, impediment, obstacle, stop
- A noun suffix having a diminutive force; as in streamlet, wavelet, armlet
- {v} to suffer, leave, forbear, hinder, hireout
- If you let someone or something go, you allow them to leave or escape. They held him for three hours and they let him go
- make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen; "This permits the water to rush in"; "This sealed door won't allow the water come into the basement"; "This will permit the rain to run off
- To cause; to make; used with the infinitive in the active form but in the passive sense; as, let make, i
- If you let your house or land to someone, you allow them to use it in exchange for money that they pay you regularly. She is thinking of letting her house to an American serviceman The reasons for letting a house, or part of one, are varied. = rent Let out means the same as let. I couldn't sell the London flat, so I let it out to pay the mortgage Home owners who have extra space available may want to let out a room
- You say let's or, in formal English, let us, when you are making a suggestion that involves both you and the person you are talking to, or when you are agreeing to a suggestion of this kind. I'm bored. Let's go home `Shall we go in and have some supper?' --- `Yes, let's.'
- To allow
Tom could refuse to allow Mary to do that.
- Tom could refuse to let Mary do that.
I'm not going to allow Tom to do that.
- I'm not going to let Tom do that.
- vagueness People often use let in expressions such as let me see or let me think when they are hesitating or thinking of what to say next. Now, let's see. Where did I leave my bag? `How long you been living together then?' --- `Erm, let me think. It's about four years now.'
- a serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court; the ball must be served again leave unchanged; "let it be"
- Service or point that is to be replayed because of some type of interference
- If you let someone into, out of, or through a place, you allow them to enter, leave, or go through it, for example by opening a door or making room for them. I had to get up at seven o'clock this morning to let them into the building because they had lost their keys I'd better go and let the dog out
- Basic binding construct
- what you must do when you can't afford your own court
- a serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court; the ball must be served again leave unchanged; "let it be" actively cause something to happen; "I let it be known that I was not interested" make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen; "This permits the water to rush in"; "This sealed door won't allow the water come into the basement"; "This will permit the rain to run off
- If you let something happen, you allow it to happen without doing anything to stop or prevent it. Thorne let him talk She let the door slam I can't let myself be distracted by those things
- You can use let to say that you do not care if someone does something, although you think it is unpleasant or wrong. If he wants to do that, let him do it Let them talk about me; I'll be dead, anyway
- You use let me when you are introducing something you want to say. Let me tell you what I saw last night Let me explain why
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- The process of renting out all or part of your property to someone else
- A retarding; hindrance; obstacle; impediment; delay; common in the phrase without let or hindrance, but elsewhere archaic
- cause to be made; let bring, i
- cause to be brought
- To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose
- If you let go of someone or something, you stop holding them. She let go of Mona's hand and took a sip of her drink
- A call signaling that a point must be replayed A let is called: when a served ball brushes the net cord and lands in the proper service court; when the ball is served before the receiver is ready; when the ball breaks in the middle of play; or when any other outside interference occurs
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- If you say that you did not know what you were letting yourself in for when you decided to do something, you mean you did not realize how difficult, unpleasant, or expensive it was going to be. He got the impression that Miss Hawes had no idea of what she was letting herself in for
- cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition; "He got his squad on the ball"; "This let me in for a big surprise"; "He got a girl into trouble"
- Called to announce that a point is to be replayed A common example is when a serve clips the top of the net but still lands correctly in the court
- a serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court; the ball must be served again
- 1 (Verb) To lease or rent part or all of a property to a third party 2 (Noun) A served ball that strikes the net but still falls in to the service court in tennis
- A stroke in which a ball touches the top of the net in passing over
- If the ball touches the net and then falls into the diagonally opposite service box, a let is called, and the server is permitted to serve again
- A situation in which a point is replayed See Rule 7
- grant use or occupation of under a term of contract; "I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners"
- politeness Someone in authority, such as a teacher, can use let's or, in more formal English, let us, in order to give a polite instruction to another person or group of people. Let's have some hush, please `Let us pray,' said the Methodist chaplain
- If play is interrupted for any reason during a rally, a let is called and the point does not count
- consent to, give permission; "She permitted her son to visit her estranged husband"; "I won't let the police search her basement"; "I cannot allow you to see your exam"
- leave unchanged; "let it be"
- You can use let when you are saying what you think someone should do, usually when they are behaving in a way that you think is unreasonable or wrong. Let him get his own cup of tea
- The form let is used in the present tense and is the past tense and past participle
- politeness You use let me when you are offering politely to do something. Let me take your coat Let me get you something to drink
- If you let someone do something, you give them your permission to do it. I love sweets but Mum doesn't let me have them very often Visa or no visa, they won't let you into the country
- {f} allow, permit; cause, make; enable; allow to go, release; allow to enter; lease, rent; be rented (British)
- {i} rented room or apartment (British); obstacle, hindrance; play which is invalid and must be repeated (in tennis and other net games)
- A point the does not count and must be replayed Usually occurs when a serve hit the net, but drops in play More Info
- To put up for rent
- To forbear
- See note under Let, v
- When someone leaves a job, either because they are told to or because they want to, the employer sometimes says that they are letting that person go. I've assured him I have no plans to let him go Peterson was let go after less than two years
- emphasis Let alone is used after a statement, usually a negative one, to indicate that the statement is even more true of the person, thing, or situation that you are going to mention next. It is incredible that the 12-year-old managed to even reach the pedals, let alone drive the car
- 10v L 39 v (MED - leten) To leave, depart from, leave behind
- To consider; to think; to esteem
- to rent a property to a tenant
- 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
- You can use let to introduce an assumption on which you are going to base a theory, calculation, or story. Let x equal 5 and y equal 3
- To permit; to allow; to suffer; either affirmatively, by positive act, or negatively, by neglecting to restrain or prevent
- You can use let when you are praying or hoping very much that something will happen. Please God, let him telephone me
- To be let or leased; as, the farm lets for $500 a year
- You say let's or, in more formal English, let us, to direct the attention of the people you are talking to towards the subject that you want to consider next. Let's consider ways of making it easier Let us look at these views in more detail
- to let fly: see fly to let your hair down: see hair to let someone off the hook: see hook to let it be known: see known to let the side down: see side to let off steam: see steam
- let Nature take its course
- Alternative form of let nature take its course
- let alone
- To leave alone; to stop bothering
I wish he would let me alone so I could get some sleep.
- let alone
- Much less; to say nothing of; used after negating one item, to introduce a further item whose negation is entailed by the negation of the first
I didn't even notice it, let alone mind it.
- let be
- To not disturb or meddle with; to leave (someone or something) alone
Will you never let me be?.
- let be
- To stop, to stop doing something; to leave off (now used alone, formerly also + infinitive)
Let be therefore my vengeaunce to disswade .
- let be
- Used to assign a value to a symbol
Let f be any real-valued function on I and g be any real-valued function on J.
- let bygones be bygones
- To ignore or disregard a past offense (when dealing with another individual)
But I ain't got no quarrel witcha. Just let bygones be bygones.
- let down
- To disappoint; to betray or fail somebody
I promised him I would meet him there, and I will not let him down.
- let freedom ring
- A statement that the ideals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness should be spread across the Earth and allowed to flourish
- let go
- To dismiss from employment
The secretary didn't work out, so her boss told her she was being let go.
- let go
- To release from one's grasp; to go from a state of holding on to a state of no longer holding on
To emotionally disengage or to distract oneself from a situation.
- let go and let God
- to consciously surrender one's free will to the will of God
- let her rip
- To set off or allow to begin
Once we have the tank full we will back away and you can let her rip.
- let in
- To let someone or something come in; to admit someone or something in
He opened the window to let in the air.
- let in on
- to tell someone a secret
- let it be
- To leave something to follow its natural course
Let it be. The more you interfere, the worse it will get.
- let know
- To inform (someone) (of something)
If anyone has seen him, let us know of his whereabouts.
- let loose
- to free, release from restraint
- let me see
- used as a filled pause to indicating thinking or pondering, not inviting hearer to participate
Let me see. What should I make for dinner tonight?.
- let nature take her course
- Alternative form of let nature take its course
- let nature take its course
- To permit events to proceed or a situation to develop without intervention or interference
Her life is not worth living, people say; see, she is dependent on others even for food and water; let nature take its course.
- let off
- To forgive and not punish
The boss let me off for breaking the office window, when in theory she could have fined me about 30 dollars for the break.
- let off
- To cause to explode
Stand back when you let off fireworks.
- let off steam
- Alternative form of blow off steam
- let on
- to reveal, disclose, or divulge
I tried not to let on that I had already guessed the answer.
- let one rip
- To fart
- let one's hair down
- To relax and enjoy oneself
- let oneself go
- to cease to care about one's appearance
- let out
- To allow to operate at higher speed by adjusting controls
The engineer let out the throttle after the train crossed the bridge.
- let out
- To disclose
He accidentally let out the location for the meeting.
- let out
- To release
The students were let out of school early.
- let out
- Of sound, to emit
The dog let out a yelp.
- let out
- To enlarge by adjusting one or more seams
After the holidays he had to have his suits let out.
- let rip
- To get angry
She let rip about Mary's flirting with Lizzie's boyfriend.
- let sleeping dogs lie
- To leave things as they are; especially, to avoid restarting or rekindling an old argument; to leave disagreements in the past
Eventually, they decided it would be best to let sleeping dogs lie and not discuss the matter any further.
- let slip
- To divulge a secret, as by accident or mistake
He finally let slip that they plan to take over the business.
- let somebody down
- To fail somebody; to disappoint or to fail to uphold a commitment
He really let me down when he didn't arrive on time.
- let somebody in on
- To disclose; to tell somebody a secret or share privileged information
Do you think we should let him in on the shortcut?.
- let someone have it
- To verbally assail someone
When I came home, he let me have it for wrecking the car.
- let someone have it
- To attack someone with great force
At dawn we really let 'em have it with a 30 minute artillery barrage.
- let something slip
- To accidentally reveal a secret
- let the cat out of the bag
- To disclose a secret; to let a secret be known, often inadvertently
It was going to be a surprise party until someone let the cat out of the bag.
- let the good times roll
- To have fun or live fully; may imply letting things that are going well proceed
- let the perfect be the enemy of the good
- Intransigently fight for or argue the entirety of an ideal to the detriment of any partial fulfilment thereof
But we shouldn’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
- let up
- to lessen
The rain shows no sign of letting up.
- let's
- A contraction of let us used to form the first-person plural imperative of verbs
Let’s dance.
- let's go
- first-person plural imperative of to go
Let’s go to the beach next Saturday.
- let's go
- Hurry up, be quick
- let's not and say we did
- Indicates that the speaker does not agree with a proposed action of a group, and does not wish to participate. Generally the speaker does not actually intend for the group to tell others that the group performed the action, whether or not it were to be actually performed
Many teachers take a Let's not and say we did attitude toward extended experiential learning in the different styles.
- let's roll
- Used to suggest that an action should begin
- let's see
- used as a filled pause to indicating thinking or pondering, but allowing hearer to participate
Let's see. What should I make for dinner tonight?.
- let-down
- A disappointment or anticlimax
After seeing all the advertisements, the show itself was quite a let-down.
- let-off
- An escape from punishment
The missed penalty was a massive let-off for the home team.
- let-through
- A transient voltage spike that is allowed to pass through a power conditioning unit to the load
- let someone down
- disappoint, disillusion
- let's
- {f} come (precedes an action verb)
- let's
- Let's is the usual spoken form of `let us'. Contraction of let us. the short form of 'let us', used especially to make suggestions
- let's go
- let us leave; let's do a good job, let's give it all we have
- let it lay
- (deyim) Forget it; leave it alone; do not be concerned or involved
Don't get involved with Max again just let it lay.
- let off some steam
- (deyim) Fig. to work or play off excess energy: Those boys need to get out and let off some steam. Go out and let off steam!
- let off some steam
- (deyim) Lit. [for something] to release steam: The locomotive let off some steam after it came to a halt. With a great hiss, it let off steam and frightened the children
- let off some steam
- (deyim) to do or say something that helps you to get rid of strong feelings or energy: Meetings give people the chance to let off steam if something has been bothering them for a long time. After a long journey, the kids need to run around a bit and let off steam. I've told her she can call me and talk any time she wants to blow off steam
- let sleeping dogs lie
- (Atasözü) Do not make (someone) angry and cause trouble or danger; do not make trouble if you do not have to. "Don't tell Father that you broke the window. Let sleeping dogs lie."
- let your hair down
- Meaning: Behave in a free or uninhibited manner. Origin: From the days when women normally wore their hair pinned up
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- letting
- The rental of an apartment
- letting
- The award of a public contract
- let go of
- (deyim) Release one's grasp. As soon as Sally let go of the leash, her dog ran away
As soon as Sally let go of the leash, her dog ran away.
- let someone down
- Fail to support or help someone
- Let me
- lemme
- let alone
- not bother, leave be; not to mention, not to speak of
- let alone
- much less; "she can't boil potatoes, let alone cook a meal"
- let alone
- much less; "she can't boil potatoes, let alone cook a meal
- let down
- If something lets you down, it is the reason you are not as successful as you could have been. Many believe it was his shyness and insecurity which let him down Sadly, the film is let down by an excessively simple plot
- let down
- disappoint; lower; lengthen, let out a hem in order to make an article of clothing longer
- let down
- fail to meet the hopes or expectations of; "Her boyfriend let her down when he did not propose marriage"
- let down
- move something or somebody to a lower position; "take down the vase from the shelf"
- let down
- If you let down something such as a tyre, you allow air to escape from it. I let the tyres down on his car Remove wheelnuts, let down tyre, put on spare. = deflate
- let down
- If you let someone down, you disappoint them, by not doing something that you have said you will do or that they expected you to do. Don't worry, Xiao, I won't let you down When such advisers fail in their duty, they let down the whole system. + let down let down The company now has a large number of workers who feel badly let down
- let go
- be relaxed; "Don't be so worried all the time--just let go!
- let go
- Term to describe when an engine fails or "blows up " Also when other parts of a car fail
- let go
- release, free; desist, leave alone; give up
- let go
- Command to release or untie, often regarding the halyard
- let go
- release, as from one's grip; "Let go of the door handle, please!"; "relinquish your grip on the rope--you won't fall"
- let go
- be relaxed; "Don't be so worried all the time--just let go!"
- let go
- {f} drop it
- let go of
- release, as from one's grip; "Let go of the door handle, please!"; "relinquish your grip on the rope--you won't fall
- let in
- allow to enter; grant entry to; "We cannot admit non-members into our club"
- let in
- allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of; "admit someone to the profession"; "She was admitted to the New Jersey Bar"
- let in
- If an object lets in something such as air, light, or water, it allows air, light, or water to get into it, for example because the object has a hole in it. balconies shaded with lattice-work which lets in air but not light
- let in
- bring in; allow one to enter; narrow an article of clothing
- let it go
- not act; "He thought of a reply but let it go
- let it go
- not act; "He thought of a reply but let it go"
- let know
- {f} inform, notify, tell
- let loose
- release, free, let go
- let me see
- just a minute, let me think about it
- let off
- free, release, set free; (Slang) to fart
- let off
- grant exemption or release to; "Please excuse me from this class"
- let off
- If someone in authority lets you off a task or duty, they give you permission not to do it. In those days they didn't let you off work to go home very often
- let off
- If you let off an explosive or a gun, you explode or fire it. A resident of his neighbourhood had let off fireworks to celebrate the Revolution
- let off
- If you let someone off, you give them a lighter punishment than they expect or no punishment at all. Because he was a Christian, the judge let him off When police realised who he was, they asked for an autograph and let him off with a warning
- let on
- If you do not let on that something is true, you do not tell anyone that it is true, and you keep it a secret. She never let on that anything was wrong I didn't let on to the staff what my conversation was He knows the culprit but is not letting on
- let on
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her"
- let on
- pretend; expose a secret
- let out
- release, free; make a piece of clothing larger
- let out
- bring out of a specific state
- let out
- express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words); "She let out a big heavy sigh"; "He uttered strange sounds that nobody could understand"
- let out
- make (clothes) larger; "Let out that dress--I gained a lot of weight"
- let out
- make (clothes) larger; "Let out that dress--I gained a lot of weight
- let out
- If something or someone lets water, air, or breath out, they allow it to flow out or escape. It lets sunlight in but doesn't let heat out Meer let out his breath in a long sigh
- let out
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her"
- let out
- If you let out a particular sound, you make that sound. When she saw him, she let out a cry of horror. = give out see also let 14
- let up
- become less in amount or intensity; "The storm abated"; "The rain let up after a few hours"
- let up
- {f} become less extreme or slower (e.g. "It's been snowing so hard for a long time. Will it ever let up?")
- let up
- reduce pressure or intensity; "he eased off the gas pedal and the car slowed down"
- let up
- If an unpleasant, continuous process lets up, it stops or becomes less intense. The rain had let up. see also let-up
- let us
- allow us, permit us
- lets
- plural of let
- lets
- Upper-case A short form for Libraries Electronic Technologies and Services A unit within the UML responsible for the Libraries automated systems and technology
- lets
- third-person singular of let
- lets
- Local Exchange Trading Schemes are community-based mutual aid networks in which people exchange all kinds of goods and services with one another, without the need for money They are an organised form of barter
- lets
- Law Enforcement Telecommunication System of WSP
- lets
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- letting
- a house or apartment that can be rented
- letting
- {i} rented apartment
- letting
- present participle of let
- letting
- {i} act of allowing something to enter or pass; leasing, renting
- letting
- property that is leased or rented out or let