Admit vs. Accept — What's the Difference?

Confess to be true or to be the case

To answer affirmatively

Allow (someone) to enter a place

To agree to take (a duty or responsibility).

Accept as valid

To receive (something offered), especially with gladness or approval

Allow the possibility of

To admit to a group, organization, or place

To grant to be real, valid, or true; acknowledge or concede

To regard as proper, usual, or right

To disclose or confess (guilt or an error, for example).

To regard as true; believe in

To afford opportunity for; permit

To understand as having a specific meaning.

To allow to enter

To endure resignedly or patiently

To grant the right to enter

To be able to hold (something applied or inserted)

To accept into an organization or group

To receive officially

To accept (someone) as an inpatient in a hospital.

To consent to pay, as by a signed agreement.

To accept into evidence as relevant and otherwise admissible

To take payment in the form of

To afford possibility

(Medicine) To receive (a transplanted organ or tissue) without immunological rejection.

To allow entrance; afford access

To receive something, especially with favor. Often used with of.

To make acknowledgment; confess

(transitive) To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.

One who is admitted.

(transitive) To admit to a place or a group.

(transitive) To allow to enter; to grant entrance (to), whether into a place, into the mind, or into consideration

(transitive) To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.

(transitive) To allow (someone) to enter a profession or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise.

(transitive) To receive as adequate or satisfactory.

(transitive) To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny

(transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.

(transitive) To be capable of; to permit. In this sense, "of" may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.

(transitive) To endure patiently.

(intransitive) To give warrant or allowance, to grant opportunity or permission (+ of).

(transitive) To acknowledge patiently without opposition or resistance.

(transitive) To allow to enter a hospital or similar facility for treatment.

To agree to pay.

To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause.

(transitive) To receive officially.

To give a right of entrance; as, a ticket admits one into a playhouse.

(intransitive) To receive something willingly.

To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise; as, to admit an attorney to practice law; the prisoner was admitted to bail.

(obsolete) Accepted.

To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny; to own or confess; as, the argument or fact is admitted; he admitted his guilt.

To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; - often followed by of.

To be capable of; to permit; as, the words do not admit such a construction. In this sense, of may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.

To receive with favor; to approve.

Declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of;

To receive or admit and agree to; to assent to; as, I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.

Allow to enter; grant entry to;

To take by the mind; to understand; as, How are these words to be accepted?

Allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of;

To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange.

Admit into a group or community;

In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; as, to accept the report of a committee. [This makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.]

Afford possibility;

Accepted.

Give access or entrance to;

Consider or hold as true;

Have room for; hold without crowding;

Receive willingly something given or offered;

Serve as a means of entrance;

Give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to;

React favorably to; consider right and proper;

Admit into a group or community;

Take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person;

Tolerate or accommodate oneself to;

Be designed to hold or take;

Of a deliberative body: receive (a report) officially, as from a committee

Make use of or accept for some purpose;

Be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal;