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Look up: Intolerance

  1. intolerance
    [n] - unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in opinions or beliefs 2. [n] - impatience with annoyances
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Intolerance
    An abnormal reaction of the body to an "aggression" which most people would tolerate without any symptoms of illness.
    Found on http://www.zirtek.co.uk/templates/glossa

  3. Intolerance
    In·tol"er·ance (ĭn*tŏl"ẽr* a ns) noun [ Latin intolerantia impatience, unendurableness: confer French intolérance .] 1. Want of capacity to endure; as, intolerance of light. 2. The quality of being intolerant; refusal to allow to others the enjoyment of their opinions, chosen modes of worship, and the like; want of patience and forbear …
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/I/86

  4. intolerance
    Inability to withstand, sensitivity, as to a drug. ... Origin: L. Tolerare = to bear ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
    Found on http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?i

  5. intolerance
    noun unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in opinions or beliefs
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  6. Intolerance
    `Intolerance` is the lack of ability or willingness to tolerate something. *In pressed through angry argumentation, looking down at people because of their characteristics or viewpoints, negatively portraying something due the contrast with one's own beliefs, etc. On a more extreme level, it can lead to violence - in its most severe form, genocide. Possibly the most infamous example in Western culture is the Holocaust. Colonialism was based, in...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intolerance

  7. Intolerance
    `Intolerance` is the lack of ability or willingness to tolerate something. *In pressed through angry argumentation, looking down at people because of their characteristics or viewpoints, negatively portraying something due the contrast with one's own beliefs, etc. On a more extreme level, it can lead to violence - in its most severe form, genocide. Possibly the most infamous example in Western culture is the Holocaust. Colonialism was based, in...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intolerance

  8. intolerance
    (in-tol´әr-әns) inability to withstand or consume; inability to absorb or metabolize nutrients.
    Found on http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns

  9. Intolerance
    • (n.) Want of capacity to endure; as, intolerance of light. • (n.) The quality of being intolerant; refusal to allow to others the enjoyment of their opinions, chosen modes of worship, and the like; want of patience and forbearance; illiberality; bigotry; as, intolerance shown toward a religious sect.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  10. Intolerance
    (from the article `motion picture, history of the`) ...to produce a spectacular cinematic polemic against what he saw as a flaw in human character that had endangered civilization throughout history. ... ...however, The Birth of a Nation was censored in many cities, including New York City, and Griffith became an ardent opponent of cens...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/i/34

  11. intolerance
    (L. in not + tolerare to bear) inability to withstand; sensitivity, as to a drug.
    Found on http://users.ugent.be/~rvdstich/eugloss/

  12. intolerance
    intolerance 1. The quality or condition of being intolerant; a lack of tolerance. 2. An unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in the opinions or beliefs of others. 3. A lack of toleration; unwillingness or refusal to tolerate or respect contrary opinions or beliefs, persons of different races or backgrounds, etc. 4. The incapacity or indisposit...
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  13. intolerance
    Abnormal metabolism, excretion, or other disposition of a given substance; term often used to indicate impaired utilization or disposal of dietary constituents.
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  14. intolerance
    1. impatience with annoyances
    2. unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in opinions or beliefs

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21 November 2008

This day in history:
On 21st November 1974 the Provisional IRA plants bombs in two Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town. Twenty-one people die and 182 are injured. A few minutes before the explosions a warning had been telephoned to the local newspaper, the Birmingham Post and Mail, but it was far too late. The first Birmingham bomb, at the Mulberry Bush pub in the basement of the Rotunda, a 20-storey office and retail complex and it exploded six minutes after the telephone warning. There was not enough time for police to clear the area. Earlier that year nine soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded on a coach on the M62 near Bradford, while two bombs in Guildford killed four soldiers and injured scores of other people. read more

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