ALLOW
(redirected from allowable)Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Legal, Idioms.
Related to allowable: allowable stress, allowable expenses
ALLOW.
On drawings, abbr. for allowance.
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Legal, Idioms.
Mentioned in
?
References in classic literature
?
The leisure hours left to me after I had given the requisite orders to the head-shepherds, overseers, and other labourers, I passed in such employments as are not only allowable but necessary for young girls, those that the needle, embroidery cushion, and spinning wheel usually afford, and if to refresh my mind I quitted them for a while, I found recreation in reading some devotional book or playing the harp, for experience taught me that music soothes the troubled mind and relieves weariness of spirit.
One lesson, too, we have learned, if it be allowable to argue a particulari, that the brute beasts which are to the Count's command are yet themselves not amenable to his spiritual power, for look, these rats that would come to his call, just as from his castle top he summon the wolves to your going and to that poor mother's cry, though they come to him, they run pell-mell from the so little dogs of my friend Arthur.
"Because," said the old man, "the natural repugnance to the commission of such a crime prevented you from thinking of it; and so it ever is because in simple and allowable things our natural instincts keep us from deviating from the strict line of duty.
"The right of a lively mind, Fanny, seizing whatever may contribute to its own amusement or that of others; perfectly allowable, when untinctured by ill-humour or roughness; and there is not a shadow of either in the countenance or manner of Miss Crawford: nothing sharp, or loud, or coarse.
At sixteen, Miss Murray was something of a romp, yet not more so than is natural and allowable for a girl of that age, but at seventeen, that propensity, like all other things, began to give way to the ruling passion, and soon was swallowed up in the all-absorbing ambition to attract and dazzle the other sex.
The owner and operator of a tanker, Ocean Princess, have been convicted and fined $3 million for pollution violations, including the use of fuel that exceeded the maximum allowable sulfur concentration in the U.S.-Caribbean emission control area (ECA) and then attempting to deceive U.S.
" "It's pointless," Locsin said about the undocumented agreement, adding that Duterte might have been led to believe that there was a surplus of the allowable catch in Philippine waters.
The proposals would create three new types of allowable mass-timber construction, set new fire-safety regulations, and redefine allowable heights and number of allowable stories for mass-timber buildings.
However, the lawmaker said if the HUDCC determine that rent rate hikes are necessary, the rent increase should not be more than the 2018 annual inflation rate and should within allowable rent rate hikes.
The COA noted that allowable travel expenses prescribed in Executive Order No.
Other allowable expenses include acupuncture, annual physical exams, the cost of an ambulance when necessary, birth control pills, breast reconstructive surgery, contact lenses, crutches, diagnostic services, treatment for drug addiction, hearing aids, chiropractic care, and physical therapy (IRS Publication 502-Medical and Dental Expenses, 2016, http://bit.ly/2nFwGEb).
Encyclopedia browser
?
- ▲
- allosteric site
- allosteric transition
- allostery
- allotetraploid
- Allotheria
- allothigene
- allothimorph
- allothogene
- allothogenic
- allotment garden
- Allotment Land Tenure
- Allotment Landownership
- allotrioblast
- Allotriognathi
- allotriomorphic
- allotriomorphism
- allotrope
- allotropism
- allotropy
- allotter
- allotter relay
- allotype
- Allouez, Claude Jean
- allover
- ALLOW
- allowable
- allowable bearing capacity
- allowable bearing value
- allowable load
- allowable oil
- allowable pile bearing load
- allowable pile load
- allowable soil pressure
- allowable stress
- allowance
- Alloway
- Alloway graveyard
- allowed energy bands
- allowed hours
- allowed time
- allowed transition
- alloxan
- alloy
- Alloy 750
- alloy adhesive
- Alloy Cast Iron
- alloy junction
- alloy nuclear fuel
- alloy plating
- Alloy Steel
- Alloying
- ▼
Full browser
?
- ▲
- allow one up
- Allow Partially Trusted Caller
- Allow Partially Trusted Caller Attribute
- Allow Partially Trusted Callers
- Allow Service Indicator Operator
- Allow Set Foreground Window
- allow some elbow room
- allow somebody free rein
- allow somebody full rein
- allow someone full rein
- allow someone or something in
- allow something free rein
- allow something full rein
- allow them free rein
- allow them full rein
- allow them in
- allow them into
- allow them up
- allow up
- allow us free rein
- allow us full rein
- allow us in
- allow us into
- allow us up
- allow you free rein
- allow you full rein
- allow you in
- allow you into
- allow you up
- allowability
- allowable
- Allowable Annual Cut
- allowable bearing capacity
- allowable bearing value
- Allowable Biological Catch
- Allowable Buckling Load
- Allowable Business Investment Losses
- allowable cabin load
- allowable cabin load
- Allowable Cargo Load
- Allowable Cell Rate
- allowable charge
- Allowable Combat Load
- Allowable Continuous Heat Exposure Time
- Allowable Contract Selection Date
- Allowable Cost per Order
- Allowable Daily Intake
- Allowable Disconnect Boundary
- Allowable Downtime Windows
- Allowable Elapsed Time
- Allowable Energy Range
- allowable error
- Allowable Flight Temperature
- Allowable Foreign Selling Costs
- Allowable Gross Weight
- allowable level of protection
- Allowable Level of Risk
- Allowable Limit of Intake
- allowable load
- allowable load
- Allowable Margin of Error
- ▼