0 present participle of tolerate --
1 to accept behaviour and beliefs that are different from your own, although you might not agree with or approve of them: --
[ + -ing verb ] I won't tolerate lying.
2 to deal with something unpleasant or annoying, or to continue existing despite bad or difficult conditions: --
These ants can tolerate temperatures that would kill other species.
In order to develop and foster modernist thought, it was necessary to establish a framework for free and open discussion, accepting and tolerating dissent.
These leukocytes are thought to sustain the delicate balance between protecting the developing embryo/fetus and tolerating its hemiallogeneic tissues.
We feel there is nothing reprehensible about such a mixture and that tolerating it is by no means necessarily a bad thing.
Hamidian policy may thus be summarized as one of tolerating and integrating such initiatives into the regime's power strategies while containing them through strict supervision.
In the former case, it may not be clear whether the official is condoning the behavior or simply tolerating it.
Secondly, the physiologies of known organisms should be used as the basis to assess the plausibility of a potential physiology capable of tolerating those conditions.
This cercaria thus belongs to holoeuryhaline category, capable of tolerating wide variations in salinity.
An advantage of large seed size: tolerating rather than succumbing to seed predators.
