[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

tolerance \tol"erance\, n. l. tolerantia: cf. f.
   tol'erance.
   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
see also:
allowance immunotolerance immunological tolerance immune tolerance low-zone tolerance high-zone tolerance 
tolerance of the mint remedy of the mint remedy 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

allowance \allow"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

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

allowance \allow"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
see also:
allowancing allowance 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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: adjustment
     4: a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move
        within limits syn: 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
        account
     6: the act of allowing; "he objected to the allowance of
        smoking in the diningroom"
     v : put on a fixed allowance, as of food
see also:
adjustment leeway margin tolerance valuation reserve valuation account 
allowance account 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

243 moby thesaurus words for "allowance":
   c ration, k ration, ok, abatement, acceptance, account,
   acknowledgment, adjustment, admission, agio, aid, alimony,
   allocation, allotment, allowing, annuity, apportionment,
   appreciation, appropriation, approximation, assessment, assignment,
   assistance, authorization, avowal, bank discount, big end,
   bigger half, bill, bit, bite, blackmail, blood money, board,
   bounty, breakage, budget, bulge, cash discount, cession,
   chain discount, charge-off, charter, chunk, circumscription, color,
   commission, commons, concession, confession, consent,
   consideration, contingent, countenance, credit, cut, deadwood,
   deal, declaration, decontamination, deduction, depletion allowance,
   depreciation, destiny, deviation, discount, dispensation, dividend,
   dole, drawback, edge, emergency rations, emolument, end,
   equal share, exception, excuses, exemption,
   extenuating circumstances, extenuation, extenuative, fate, favor,
   fee, fellowship, field rations, financial assistance, footing,
   gilding, gloss, grain of salt, grant, grant-in-aid,
   guaranteed annual income, half, halver, handicap, head start,
   hedge, hedging, help, helping, hush money, imprecision, inaccuracy,
   inaccurateness, incorrectness, indulgence, inexactitude,
   inexactness, initiation fee, interest, kickback, laxity, leave,
   liberty, license, limitation, looseness, lot, meals, measure, meed,
   mental reservation, mess, mileage, mitigation, modicum,
   modification, moiety, negligence, odds, okay, old-age insurance,
   overhand, palliation, palliative, part, patent, payment,
   pecuniary aid, penalty, penalty clause, pension, percentage,
   permission, permission to enter, permit, permitting, piece,
   pin money, pocket money, portion, predictable error, premium,
   price reduction, price support, price-cut, probable error,
   profession, proportion, public assistance, public welfare,
   qualification, quantum, quota, rake-off, ration, rations, rebate,
   rebatement, reckoning, recognition, recompense, reduction, refund,
   reimbursement, release, relief, remittance, remuneration,
   reservation, restriction, retainer, retaining fee,
   retirement benefits, rollback, salvage, salvo, sanction,
   sanctioning, scholarship, scot, segment, setoff, share,
   short commons, slice, small share, softening, special case,
   special permission, special treatment, specialness, specification,
   stake, standard deviation, start, stipend, stock, subsidization,
   subsidy, subvention, sufferance, suffering, support, tare,
   tax benefit, ticket, ticket of admission, time discount, tolerance,
   tolerating, toleration, trade discount, tret, tribute, tucker,
   uncorrectness, underselling, unfactualness, unpreciseness,
   unrigorousness, vantage, varnish, vouchsafement, waiver, welfare,
   welfare aid, welfare payments, whitewash, whitewashing,
   write-off

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