Permission vs Tolerance - What's the difference?
permission | tolerance | Related terms |
authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority)
The act of permitting.
(computing) flags or access control lists pertaining to a file that dictate who can access it, and how.
(uncountable, obsolete) The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.
(uncountable) The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.
(uncountable) The ability of the body (or other organism) to resist the action of a poison, to cope with a dangerous drug or to survive infection by an organism.
(countable) The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement.
(uncountable) The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.
As nouns the difference between permission and tolerance
is that permission is authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority while tolerance is the ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.permission
English
Noun
- Sire, do I have your permission to execute this traitor?
- I used the "chmod" command to change the file's permission .
