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allowance 音标拼音: [əl'ɑʊəns] n. 允许,考虑;津贴;余地,体谅;限额,限量,折扣 允许,考虑;津贴;余地,体谅;限额,限量,折扣 allowance宽放
allowance容差 allowance容差 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" [ synonym: { allowance}, { adjustment}] 4: a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits [ synonym: { 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 [ synonym: { 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 foodTolerance \ 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]
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]
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] 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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