What is the difference between tolerate and brook?
tolerate | brook |
To allow (something that one dislikes or disagrees with) to exist or occur without interference.
To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.
To earn; deserve.
(label) To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object ).
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=6, title= * 2005 , Nicholas Ostler, Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World , Harper:
A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
*Bible, (w) viii. 7
*:The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:empties itself, as doth an inland brook / into the main of waters
*
*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.
A water meadow.
Low, marshy ground.
Brook is a synonym of tolerate.
As verbs the difference between tolerate and brook
is that tolerate is to allow (something that one dislikes or disagrees with) to exist or occur without interference while brook is to use; enjoy; have the full employment of.As a noun brook is
a body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.As a proper noun Brook is
{{surname|from=Middle English}} for someone living by a brook.tolerate
English
Verb
(tolerat)- I like the way he plays the guitar, but I can't tolerate his voice when he sings.
- I can tolerate working on Saturdays, but not on Sundays.
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . SeeSynonyms
* allow, bear, , endure, live with, put up withExternal links
* * * ----brook
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.}}
- Nevertheless, Garcilaso does claim that the Spaniards ‘who were unable to brook the length of the discourse, had left their places and fallen on the Indians’.
