tolerance
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Remedy \Rem"e*dy\ (r?m"?-d?), n.; pl. {Remedies} (-d?z). [L.
remedium; pref. re- re- + mederi to heal, to cure: cf. F.
rem[`e]de remedy, rem['e]dier to remedy. See {Medical}.]
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1. That which relieves or cures a disease; any medicine or
application which puts an end to disease and restores
health; -- with for; as, a remedy for the gout.
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2. That which corrects or counteracts an evil of any kind; a
corrective; a counteractive; reparation; cure; -- followed
by for or against, formerly by to.
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What may else be remedy or cure
To evils which our own misdeeds have wrought,
He will instruct us. --Milton.
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3. (Law) The legal means to recover a right, or to obtain
redress for a wrong.
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{Civil remedy}. See under {Civil}.
{Remedy of the mint} (Coinage), a small allowed deviation
from the legal standard of weight and fineness; -- called
also {tolerance}.
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Syn: Cure; restorative; counteraction; reparation; redress;
relief; aid; help; assistance.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Tolerance \Tol"er*ance\, n. [L. tolerantia: cf. F.
tol['e]rance.]
1. The power or capacity of enduring; the act of enduring;
endurance.
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Diogenes, one frosty morning, came into the market
place, shaking, to show his tolerance. --Bacon.
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2. The endurance of the presence or actions of objectionable
persons, or of the expression of offensive opinions;
toleration.
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3. (Med.) The power possessed or acquired by some persons of
bearing doses of medicine which in ordinary cases would
prove injurious or fatal.
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4. (Forestry) Capability of growth in more or less shade.
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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.
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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.
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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}).
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{Tolerance of the mint}. (Coinage) Same as {Remedy of the
mint}. See under {Remedy}.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
176 Moby Thesaurus words for "tolerance":
a habit, acceptance, acquired tolerance, acute alcoholism,
addictedness, addiction, admissibility, admission, alcoholism,
allowance, amphetamine withdrawal symptoms, ample scope,
approximation, assimilation, barbiturate addiction, barbiturism,
benevolence, blank check, broad-mindedness, carte blanche,
chain smoking, charitableness, charity, chronic alcoholism,
clearance, clemency, clementness, cocainism, compassion,
completeness, comprehension, comprehensiveness, comprisal,
condonation, connivance, coverage, crash, craving, dependence,
deviation, dipsomania, disregard, drug addiction, drug culture,
drug dependence, easiness, easygoingness, elbowroom, eligibility,
embodiment, embracement, encompassment, endurance, envisagement,
exhaustiveness, field, forbearance, forbearing, forbearingness,
forgiveness, forgivingness, fortitude, free course, free hand,
free play, free scope, free thought, freethinking, full scope,
full swing, generousness, gentleness, grit, guts, habituation,
humaneness, humanity, immunity, imperviousness, imprecision,
inaccuracy, inaccurateness, inclusion, inclusiveness,
incorporation, incorrectness, indulgence, inexactitude,
inexactness, insensitivity, kindness, latitude, latitudinarianism,
laxity, laxness, leeway, lenience, leniency, lenientness, lenity,
liberalism, liberality, liberalness, liberation, libertarianism,
libertinism, long rope, long-sufferance, long-suffering,
longanimity, looseness, magnanimity, maneuvering space, margin,
membership, mercifulness, mercy, mildness, moderateness,
negligence, nicotine addiction, no holds barred, open space,
open-mindedness, openness, opposition, overlooking, participation,
patience, patience of Job, patientness, permissiveness,
perseverance, physical dependence, pity, play, predictable error,
probable error, psychological dependence, range, reception,
resistance, room, rope, scope, sea room, self-control, softness,
space, stamina, standard deviation, steadfastness, steadiness,
stoicism, strength, sufferance, sweet reasonableness, swing,
tenderness, toleration, unbigotedness, uncorrectness,
unfactualness, unpreciseness, unrevengefulness, unrigorousness,
variation, vigor, waiting game, waiting it out, way, whole,
wide berth, winking, withdrawal sickness, withdrawal symptoms
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