Word Finder - tolerance

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The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.

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The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.

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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.

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The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement.

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Our customers can generally accept ten times the tolerance which we can achieve in our machining operations.

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The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.

He also advocated tolerance towards the dissenters.

Do that and you have to start building tolerance all over again.

Kids have different tolerance levels for activity.

As a religious man, he wrote and strove in favour of tolerance, being decidedly against capital punishment for heretics.

The Arab rule in Spain, which once threatened to overwhelm Europe and was turned back near Tours by Charles Martel, was distinguished by its tolerance and civilization, and lingered on till the 15th century.

In 1787 the Edict of Tolerance was published.

Sarah sighed, "Could you please show a little tolerance?"

The dynasty accepted Judaism (c. 740), but there was equal tolerance for all, and each man was held amenable to the authorized code and to the official judges of his own faith.

Internally it is useful in certain forms of dyspepsia, but as some patients are quite unable to tolerate the drug, it must always be administered in very small doses at first, the quantity being slowly increased as tolerance is shown.

A favourite form of tolerance was to grant a permit to the Jews to remain in the state for a limited term of years; their continuance beyond the specified time was illegal and they were therefore subject to sudden banishment.

Will you treat them with the same temporary tolerance?

The politiques, as the supporters of religious tolerance and an energetic repression of faction were called, offered their alliance to the Huguenots, but these, having foimed Fifth themselves, by means of the Protestant Union, into wa..

He became a sincere churchman and was noted for his tolerance of Roman Catholics.

Children who are to take the lactose tolerance test must fast before being tested.

He was himself the author of a treatise on tolerance.

A constant sense of the limits of human understanding was at the bottom of his arguments for tolerance.

Jule laughed, not at all surprised by the news of his adopted brother, the human turned assassin with a low tolerance for bullshit.

In addition, you can develop a tolerance for nicotine which means that your brain needs more of it over time to get the same reaction.

How can God look down with tolerance that seems favour on so much that conflicts with His declared will and character?

In the interests of hygiene prostitution is licensed, and that fact is by many critics construed as proof of tolerance.

It must, therefore, be supposed that abyssal forms have gradually acquired such tolerance of darkness as makes their health independent of the sun.

It is well known that the habitual consumption of certain drugs, such as tobacco, Indian hemp, opium, arsenic, alcohol and many others, gradually induces a condition of tolerance to their effects, so that large doses can be taken without causing symptoms of poisoning.

The degree of tolerance often differs in individuals at different times and in different circumstances, and may become lost by breaking off the habit for a short time.

Recent researches on arsenic and atropine, however, point to the leucocytes as playing an important part in the production of tolerance, as these gradually become capable of ingesting large amounts of the foreign substances, and thus render them more or less harmless to the tissues, until they are gradually excreted from the body.

Tolerance is therefore analogous to, but not identical with, the immunity which takes place with the toxins of infectious diseases and snake poison.

In religious matters Calvinists and Lutherans were placed upon an equality, but the elector was unable to impress his own spirit of tolerance upon the clergy, who were occupied with ecclesiastical squabbles while the state of education and of public morals left much to be desired.

Dean's patience with bureaucracy was thin during the best of times, but dealing with various branches of social services over the past winter stretched and frazzled his tolerance to the limit.

He fights almost as good as you and has a low tolerance for bullshit.

Darkyn had no tolerance for failure, especially not after past-Death interfered in his attempt to capture Rhyn's mate.

She had a high tolerance to pain, more so when she had Guardian magic.

The modern notion of tolerance is that all points of view are equally valid, equally admirable and equally true.

For them switching to the salt form (sodium ascorbate, calcium ascorbate, magnesium ascorbate, etc.) often permits far higher tolerance.

It knows nothing of universal benevolence or of a humane tolerance.

The high turnout, attitude, passion, enthusiasm, patience, tolerance and orderly conduct of the Ghanaian voter are applauded.

All showed a similar response, indicating that tolerance to ozone may not be an option in breeding improved cultivars.

Each listed inch fraction has the smallest denominator that keeps the value within the ISO 216 tolerance limits.

Basic laboratory studies have already proved very encouraging, defining some of the basic scientific features of oral tolerance.

Your good-hearted acceptance and tolerance of others ' foibles goes a long way in maintaining harmony in your relationships.

Options are available to output page numbers, paragraph indentation plus the text tolerance level override for varying sizes of text.

Thus this project argues that far from breeding intolerance, realism is actually required for tolerance to be present.

But Cambridgeshire CID wanted her to take zero tolerance a step further by giving them the names of the alleged dope peddlers.

We show that oral immune tolerance can be easily induced by direct administration of rice seeds containing the T cell epitope peptide.

The basic point is incredibly complex, examining tolerance, loyalty and cowardice with a visceral punch to the audience.

Glucose tolerance and insulin secretion were related to vitamin D status in depleted but not replete subjects.

Why do republicans not show the tolerance of the people of Kilkeel?

My tolerance of golfers is, of course, utterly selfish.

MicroStencil has developed a process which forms high tolerance apertures with extremely smooth sidewalls.

Resin slate tolerances Single lap resin slate, made in a press, has a smaller manufacturing tolerance than either clay or concrete.

With the same probability, Gaussian noise is added to the tolerance value (mean 0, standard deviation 0.01 ).

They improve consistency and cooking tolerance and decrease stickiness, checking and oil uptake in noodles and pasta made from regular wheat.