What is the difference between tolerance and allowance?
tolerance | allowance |
(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.
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.
As nouns the difference between tolerance and allowance
is that tolerance is (uncountable|obsolete) the ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance while 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.tolerance
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(wikipedia tolerance)Noun
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(wikipedia allowance)Alternative forms
* allowaunce (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- She gives her daughters each an allowance of thirty dollars a month.
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- (John Locke)
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* (money) * (minting) (l), (l)Verb
(allowanc)- The captain was obliged to allowance his crew.
- Our provisions were allowanced .
