tolerance

tolérance

Volonté d’accepter des personnes dont les croyances ou le mode de vie diffèrent des siens.

En anglais simple : Willingness to accept people whose beliefs or ways of living are different from yours.

• We should teach children tolerance.
• Religious tolerance helps people live together peacefully.
• Her tolerance of different opinions impressed me.

Comment l'utiliser : tolerance of someone/something (The school encourages tolerance of different beliefs.); tolerance for someone/something (We need greater tolerance for people with different views.)

Synonymes : acceptance, open-mindedness

Contraires : intolerance, bigotry

Expressions courantes : religious tolerance, tolerance of something, show tolerance

tolérance

Capacité à supporter quelque chose de désagréable ou de nocif sans problèmes graves.

En anglais simple : The ability to deal with something unpleasant or harmful without serious problems.

• His tolerance for pain is low.
• Some plants have a high tolerance for heat.
• Over time, she developed tolerance to the medicine.

Comment l'utiliser : tolerance for something (She has a low tolerance for pain.); tolerance to something (Repeated use can increase tolerance to the drug.)

Synonymes : resistance

Contraires : sensitivity

Expressions courantes : pain tolerance, tolerance for something, tolerance to something

tolérance à l’alcool

Capacité à boire de l’alcool sans s’enivrer facilement.

En anglais simple : The ability to drink alcohol without becoming drunk easily.

• My tolerance for alcohol is low.
• Regular drinking can increase alcohol tolerance.
• Even one beer affected her because her tolerance was low.

Comment l'utiliser : tolerance for alcohol (He has little tolerance for alcohol.)

Expressions courantes : alcohol tolerance, high tolerance, low tolerance

tolérance

Écart permis entre une mesure et la valeur demandée.

En anglais simple : The amount by which a measurement is allowed to differ from the required value.

• The measurements are within tolerance.
• This machine produces parts with a tight tolerance.
• The engineer specified a tolerance of two millimetres.

Comment l'utiliser : within tolerance (All the measurements are within tolerance.); tolerance of an amount (The part has a tolerance of one millimetre.)

Synonymes : allowable variation

Expressions courantes : within tolerance, manufacturing tolerance, tight tolerance