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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Tolerance \Tol"er*ance\, n. [L. tolerantia: cf. F. tol['e]rance.] 1. The power or capacity of enduring; the act of enduring; endurance. [1913 Webster] Diogenes, one frosty morning, came into the market place, shaking, to show his tolerance. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 2. The endurance of the presence or actions of objectionable persons, or of the expression of offensive opinions; toleration. [1913 Webster] 3. (Med.) The power possessed or acquired by some persons of bearing doses of medicine which in ordinary cases would prove injurious or fatal. [1913 Webster] 4. (Forestry) Capability of growth in more or less shade. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 5. the allowed amount of variation from the standard or from exact conformity to the specified dimensions, weight, hardness, voltage etc., in various mechanical or electrical devices or operations; -- caklled also {allowance} specif.: (Coinage) The amount which coins, either singly or in lots, are legally allowed to vary above or below the standard of weight or fineness. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC] 6. (Biochemistry) the capacity to resist the deleterious action of a chemical agent normally harmful to the organism; as, the acquired tolerance of bacteria to anitbiotics. [PJC] 7. (Immunology) the acquired inability to respond with an immune reaction to an antigen to which the organism normally responds; -- called also {immunotolerance}, {immunological tolerance}, or {immune tolerance}. Such tolerance may be induced by exposing an animal to the antigen at a very early stage of life, prior to maturation of the immune system, or, in adults, by exposing the animal to repeated low doses of a weak protein antigen ({low-zone tolerance}), or to a large amount of an antigen ({high-zone tolerance}). [PJC] {Tolerance of the mint}. (Coinage) Same as {Remedy of the mint}. See under {Remedy}. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Allowance \Al*low"ance\, n. [OF. alouance.] 1. Approval; approbation. [Obs.] --Crabbe. [1913 Webster] 2. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. [1913 Webster] Without the king's will or the state's allowance. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. Acknowledgment. [1913 Webster] The censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theater of others. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. License; indulgence. [Obs.] --Locke. [1913 Webster] 5. 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. [1913 Webster] I can give the boy a handsome allowance. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster] 6. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth. [1913 Webster] After making the largest allowance for fraud. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 7. (com.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Allowance \Al*low"ance\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Allowancing}.] [See {Allowance}, n.] To put upon a fixed allowance (esp. of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity; as, the captain was obliged to allowance his crew; our provisions were allowanced. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: allowance n 1: an amount allowed or granted (as during a given period); "travel allowance"; "my weekly allowance of two eggs"; "a child's allowance should not be too generous" 2: a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses 3: an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances; "an allowance for profit" [syn: {allowance}, {adjustment}] 4: a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits [syn: {allowance}, {leeway}, {margin}, {tolerance}] 5: a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets [syn: {valuation reserve}, {valuation account}, {allowance}, {allowance account}] 6: the act of allowing; "He objected to the allowance of smoking in the dining room" v 1: put on a fixed allowance, as of food