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Grant  (grnt), Cary Originally Archibald Alexander Leach. 1904-1986.
British-born American actor who was the epitome of the elegant leading man in films such as The Philadelphia Story (1940) and North by Northwest (1959).

Grant, Ulysses Simpson Originally Hiram Ulysses Grant. 1822-1885.
The 18th President of the United States (1869-1877) and a Civil War general. After his victorious Vicksburg campaign (1862-1863), he was made commander in chief of the Union Army (1864) and accepted the surrender of Gen. Robert E. Lee at Appomattox (1865). Grant's two-term presidency was marred by widespread graft and corruption.

grant  (grnt)
tr.v. grant·ed, grant·ing, grants
1. To consent to the fulfillment of: grant a request.
2. To accord as a favor, prerogative, or privilege: granted the franchise to all citizens.
3.
a. To bestow; confer: grant aid.
b. To transfer (property) by a deed.
4. To concede; acknowledge: I grant the genius of your plan, but you still will not find backers.
n.
1. The act of granting.
2.
a. Something granted.
b. A giving of funds for a specific purpose: federal grants for medical research.
3. Law
a. A transfer of property by deed.
b. The property so transferred.
c. The deed by which the property is so transferred.
4. One of several tracts of land in New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont originally granted to an individual or a group.

[Middle English granten, from Old French granter, variant of creanter, from Vulgar Latin *crdentre, to assure, from Latin crdns, crdent-, present participle of crdere, to believe; see kerd- in Indo-European roots.]

granta·ble adj.
granter n.
Translations
grantable
adj
(= transferable)verleihbar (→ to dat), → übertragbar (→ to auf +acc)
(= approvable)zu bewilligen(d)


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However, he did allow additional operational capabilities to be granted to selected dimensions (presumably including time), but he insisted that such additional functions should be grantable to any dimension.
They are general, special or particular, conditional or absolute, statutory, not necessary in some cases, and in some grantable of course.
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