Let

Verb

 * 1)  To allow, not to prevent (+ infinitive, usually without to:).
 * ''After he knocked for hours, I decided to let him come in.
 * 1)  To allow the release of (a fluid).
 * The physicians let about a pint of his blood, but to no avail.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  To cause (+ bare infinitive).
 * 2) * 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book IV:
 * Thenne the kyng lete serche how moche people of his party ther was slayne.
 * 1) * 1818, John Keats, "To—":
 * Time's sea hath been five years at its slow ebb, / Long hours have to and fro let creep the sand [...].
 * Can you let me know what time you'll be arriving?

Synonyms

 * allow, permit

Verb

 * 1)  To hinder, prevent.

Noun

 * 1) A hindrance.
 * ...without let or hindrance (on all commonwealth passports)
 * 1)  The hindrance caused by the net during serve, only if the ball falls legally.

Thesaurus
OK, accord, accredit, admit, allow, approve, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, assume, authorize, bareboat charter, be afraid, believe, bleed, blockage, blocking, broach, certify, charter, chartered, check, clogging, closing up, closure, commission, concede, conceive, conclude, consent, consider, constriction, cramp, daresay, decant, deduce, deem, delay, detainment, detention, dispense, divine, draft, draft off, drain, draw, draw from, draw off, dream, employed, empty, endorse, exhaust, expect, fancy, farm, farm out, feel, fixation, foot-dragging, gather, give leave, give permission, give the go-ahead, give the word, grant, hampering, have, hindering, hindrance, hire, hire out, hired, hireling, hiring, holdback, holdup, imagine, impediment, infer, inhibition, interference, interruption, job, lease, lease out, lease-back, lease-lend, leased, leave, lend-lease, let be, let blood, let off, let out, license, make possible, mercenary, milk, negativism, nuisance value, obstruction, obstructionism, occlusion, okay, opine, opposition, paid, permit, phlebotomize, pipette, prefigure, presume, presuppose, presurmise, provisionally accept, pump, pump out, reckon, release, rent, rent out, rental, rented, repression, repute, resistance, restraint, restriction, retardation, retardment, sanction, say, say the word, setback, siphon off, squeeze, stranglehold, stricture, sublease, subleased, sublet, subrent, suck, suck out, suffer, suppose, suppression, surmise, suspect, take, take for, take for granted, take it, take to be, tap, think, underlet, understand, venesect, vouchsafe

Etymology 1
leten:, from lætan:, from, from. Cognate with Dutch latan:, German lassen:, Swedish låta:.

Etymology 2
letten: from lettan:, from. Akin to latian:, Dutch letten:,  læt:. More at late, delay.

Verb

 * Arabic: (sámaħa)
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Chinese: 讓, 让 (ràng)
 * Croatian: ,
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido: lasar
 * Interlingua: lassar
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ...させる (...saseru)
 * Korean: 시키다 (sikida)
 * Latin: permito, sustineo, sino, patior
 * Latvian: ļaut


 * Lithuanian: leisti
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: leig le
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: пустити, дозволити
 * Roman: pustiti, dozvoliti
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: hayaan, pabayaan
 * Telugu: ఇవ్వు (ivvu)
 * Vietnamese: trở (literally: to give), để


 * Dutch:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: bérel
 * Italian:
 * Latvian: izīrēt


 * Lithuanian: nuomoti, išnuomoti
 * Norwegian: leie ut
 * Polish:
 * Scottish Gaelic: thoir seachad air mhàl
 * Spanish: ,

Noun

 * German: Netzball

Anagrams

 * ELT
 * ETL
 * tel

Noun

 * 1) flight

Derived terms

 * letový

Adjective

 * 1) light
 * 2) easy
 * 3) slight
 * 4) mild

Synonyms

 * nem, enkel

Adverb

 * 1) lightly
 * 2) easily
 * 3) slightly
 * 4) mildly

Anagrams

 * tel

Verb

 * 1) Imperative form of lete (to search)

Alternative forms

 * leit

Noun

 * 1) colour

Synonyms

 * farge

Etymology 1
From leita:, related to líta:

Etymology 2
From litr:, related to líta:

Noun

 * 1) colour

Etymology
From litr:, related to líta:

Alternative forms

 * lett

Synonyms

 * farge

Noun

 * 1) flight

Related terms

 * lètjeti / lèteti

Noun
let


 * 1) flight

Noun

 * 1) belt