Allowance vs Clough - What's the difference?
allowance | clough |
The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
* Without the king's will or the state's allowance. --
Acknowledgment.
* The censure of the which one must in your allowance overweigh a whole theater of others. --
That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.
* I can give the boy a handsome allowance. -- .
Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.
* After making the largest allowance for fraud. -- .
(commerce) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
A child's allowance; pocket money.
(minting) A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.
(obsolete) approval; approbation
(obsolete) license; indulgence
To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity.
(Northern England, US) A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.
A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
A cliff; a rocky precipice.
(label) The cleft or fork of a tree; crotch.
(label) A wood; weald.
Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.
As a noun allowance
is the act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.As a verb allowance
is to put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity.As a proper noun clough is
.allowance
English
(wikipedia allowance)Alternative forms
* allowaunce (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- She gives her daughters each an allowance of thirty dollars a month.
- (Crabbe)
- (John Locke)
Synonyms
* (money) * (minting) (l), (l)Verb
(allowanc)- The captain was obliged to allowance his crew.
- Our provisions were allowanced .
clough
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (Scotland)Noun
(en noun)- (Nares)
- (Knight)