Entertain vs. Tolerate — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Entertain and Tolerate
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Definitions
Entertain➦
Provide (someone) with amusement or enjoyment
A tremendous game that thoroughly entertained the crowd
Tolerate➦
Allow the existence, occurrence, or practice of (something that one dislikes or disagrees with) without interference
A regime unwilling to tolerate dissent
Entertain➦
Give attention or consideration to (an idea or feeling)
Washington entertained little hope of an early improvement in relations
Tolerate➦
Be capable of continued subjection to (a drug, toxin, or environmental condition) without adverse reaction
Lichens grow in conditions that no other plants tolerate
Entertain➦
To hold the attention of (someone) with something amusing or diverting.
Tolerate➦
To refrain from interfering with or prohibiting (something undesirable or outside one's own practice or beliefs); allow or permit
The president will not tolerate any deviation from stated policy.
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Entertain➦
To extend hospitality toward
Entertain friends at dinner.
Tolerate➦
To recognize and respect (the rights, beliefs, or practices of others).
Entertain➦
To consider; contemplate
Entertain an idea.
Tolerate➦
To accept or be patient regarding (something unpleasant or undesirable); endure
Tolerated his insults for weeks.
Entertain➦
To hold in mind; harbor
Entertained few illusions.
Tolerate➦
(Medicine) To have tolerance for (a substance or pathogen).
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Entertain➦
(Archaic) To continue with; maintain.
Tolerate➦
(transitive) To allow or permit without explicit approval, usually if it is perceived as negative.
The party tolerated corruption within its ranks.
Entertain➦
(Obsolete) To employ; hire.
Tolerate➦
(transitive) To bear, withstand.
I can tolerate working on Saturday, but not Sunday.
The elevator can tolerate up to 360 kilograms.
Entertain➦
(Obsolete) To give admittance to; receive.
Tolerate➦
To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with; as, to tolerate doubtful practices.
Crying should not be tolerated in children.
We tolerate them because property and liberty, to a degree, require that toleration.
Entertain➦
To show hospitality to guests.
Tolerate➦
Put up with something or somebody unpleasant;
I cannot bear his constant criticism
The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks
He learned to tolerate the heat
She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage
Entertain➦
To provide entertainment.
Tolerate➦
Recognize and respect (rights and beliefs of others);
We must tolerate the religions of others
Entertain➦
(transitive) To amuse (someone); to engage the attention of agreeably.
To entertain friends with lively conversation
The motivational speaker not only instructed but also entertained the audience.
Tolerate➦
Have a tolerance for a poison or strong drug or pathogen;
The patient does not tolerate the anti-inflammatory drugs we gave him
Entertain➦
To have someone over at one's home for a party or visit.
They enjoy entertaining a lot.
Tolerate➦
Allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting;
We don't allow dogs here
Children are not permitted beyond this point
We cannot tolerate smoking in the hospital
Entertain➦
(transitive) To receive and take into consideration; to have a thought in mind.
The committee would like to entertain the idea of reducing the budget figures.
To entertain a proposal
Entertain➦
(obsolete) To take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbour; to keep.
Entertain➦
(obsolete) To meet or encounter, as an enemy.
Entertain➦
(obsolete) To lead on; to bring along; to introduce.
Entertain➦
(obsolete) Entertainment; pleasure.
Entertain➦
(obsolete) Reception of a guest; welcome.
Entertain➦
To be at the charges of; to take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbor; to keep.
You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred.
Entertain➦
To give hospitable reception and maintenance to; to receive at one's board, or into one's house; to receive as a guest.
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained unawares.
Entertain➦
To engage the attention of agreeably; to amuse with that which makes the time pass pleasantly; to divert; as, to entertain friends with conversation, etc.
The weary time she can not entertain.
Entertain➦
To give reception to; to receive, in general; to receive and take into consideration; to admit, treat, or make use of; as, to entertain a proposal.
I am not here going to entertain so large a theme as the philosophy of Locke.
A rumor gained ground, - and, however absurd, was entertained by some very sensible people.
Entertain➦
To meet or encounter, as an enemy.
Entertain➦
To keep, hold, or maintain in the mind with favor; to keep in the mind; to harbor; to cherish; as, to entertain sentiments.
Entertain➦
To lead on; to bring along; to introduce.
To baptize all nations, and entertain them into the services institutions of the holy Jesus.
Entertain➦
To receive, or provide entertainment for, guests; as, he entertains generously.
Entertain➦
Entertainment.
Entertain➦
Provide entertainment for
Entertain➦
Take into consideration, have in view;
He entertained the notion of moving to South America
Entertain➦
Maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings);
Bear a grudge
Entertain interesting notions
Harbor a resentment
