different between abide vs allow

English

Etymology

From Middle English abiden, from Old English ?b?dan (“to abide, wait, remain, delay, remain behind; survive; wait for, await; expect”), from Proto-Germanic *uzb?dan? (“to expect, tolerate”), equivalent to a- +? bide. Cognate with Scots abyde (“to abide, remain”), Middle High German erb?ten (“to await, expect”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (usbeidan, “to expect, await, have patience”). The sense of pay for is due to influence from aby.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??ba?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??ba?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d

Verb

abide (third-person singular simple present abides, present participle abiding, simple past abode or abided, past participle abode or abided or (rare) abidden)

1. (transitive) To endure without yielding; to withstand. [from mid-12th century]

   Synonyms: hold on, resist, persevere; see also Thesaurus:persevere

2. (transitive) To bear patiently. [from late 15th century]

   Synonyms: brook, put up with, tolerate; see also Thesaurus:tolerate
3. (transitive) To pay for; to stand the consequences of. [from late 16th century]

   Synonyms: answer for, suffer, atone
4. Used in a phrasal verb: abide by (“to accept and act in accordance with”).

5. (intransitive, obsolete) To wait in expectation. [from mid-12th to mid-17th century]

   Synonyms: hold on, stay; see also Thesaurus:wait
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To pause; to delay. [from c. 1150-1350 to mid-17th century]
7. (intransitive, archaic) To stay; to continue in a place; to remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to be left. [from c. 1150-1350]
8. (intransitive, archaic) To have one's abode. [from c. 1350-1470]

   Synonyms: dwell, live, reside; see also Thesaurus:reside
9. (intransitive, archaic) To endure; to remain; to last. [from c. 1350-1470]
10. (transitive, archaic) To stand ready for; to await for someone; watch for. [from early 12th century]

    Synonyms: await, wait for; see also Thesaurus:wait for
11. (transitive, obsolete) To endure or undergo a hard trial or a task; to stand up under. [from c. 1150-1350 to early 18th century.]
12. (transitive, archaic) To await submissively; accept without question; submit to. [from c. 1350-1470.]

Usage notes

• (bear patiently): The negative form can't abide is used to indicate strong dislike.

Related terms

• abidable / abideable
• abide by
• abider
• abidest (archaic second-person singular present form; with “thou”)
• law-abiding

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Beida, Bieda

Estonian

Noun

abide

1. genitive plural of abi

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Arabic ?????? (??bida). The sense of monument first attested around 1908 with respect to the Monument of Liberty (Âbide-i Hürriyet) then under construction in Istanbul.

Alternative forms

• âbide

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?.bi?de/

Noun

abide

1. something of monumental importance
2. monument

Declension

References

• abide in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

Etymology 2

Noun

abide

1. locative singular of abi

English

Etymology

From Middle English allowen, alowen, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman allouer, alouer, from Medieval Latin allaud?re, present active infinitive of allaud?, merged with alouer, from Medieval Latin alloc? (“to assign”). The similarity with Middle English alyfen (from Old English ?l?fan, ?l?efan) and German erlauben, both from Proto-Germanic *uzlaubijan? (“to allow”) is coincidental.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??la?/
• enPR: ?-lou'
• Rhymes: -a?

Verb

allow (third-person singular simple present allows, present participle allowing, simple past and past participle allowed)

1. (transitive) To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.
2. (transitive) To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
3. (transitive) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.

4. (transitive) To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.
5. To not bar or obstruct.
6. (transitive) To take into account by making an allowance.

7. (transitive) To render physically possible.
8. (transitive, obsolete) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
9. (obsolete) To sanction; to invest; to entrust.
10. (transitive, obsolete) To like; to be suited or pleased with.

Synonyms

• allot, assign, bestow, concede, admit, let, permit, suffer, tolerate

Derived terms

Related terms

• allowance
• disallow

Translations

References

• allow in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.