What's the difference between bearable and endurable?

Bearable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I mean, if there was a letter from 50 midwives saying: ‘The only thing that makes our lives bearable is watching Poldark’ – that’s a worthwhile letter.
  • (2) Justin Welby said that it was “a tragedy” that hunger still existed in the UK in the 21st century and praised the work of charity food banks which he said were “striving to make life bearable for people who are going hungry”.
  • (3) We will retain the UK rebate, but it must be bearable for the other net contributors."
  • (4) Rival Tesco Mobile charges a bearable 25p a minute or 10p a text.
  • (5) It was the only way to make the journey bearable.” He adds: “The trains are now more than 30 years old, and the number of high-speed jarring bumps has significantly increased – I’m extremely concerned about the possibility of another Hatfield incident.
  • (6) Their leaders might favour the rich and keep the masses in poverty but "because the miseries of traditional life are familiar, they are bearable to the ordinary people".
  • (7) The flight home was bearable, but I started thinking to myself, "Look, you are in your mid-60s, with stents in your heart and a daily pharmaceutical regime in a myriad glowing colours.
  • (8) There is a connection between the metallic concentrations causing respiration deteriorations and the bearable metallic concentrations (starting lethal thresholds).
  • (9) Whether such a system can provide a comfortable, humanly bearable ride is completely unclear.” Musk’s elaborate vision may have attracted plenty of media attention and Silicon Valley funding, but it also highlights society’s tendency to get caught up with new transportation technologies, instead of the less exciting but perhaps more workable solutions - some of which may already exist.
  • (10) What’s more, new direct flights four times a week in summer with Delta from Heathrow start on 27 May, making what was a torturous journey – with connections in either Atlanta, Seattle, San Francisco or Vancouver – a more bearable 11-hour trip.
  • (11) We are not only looking at what is technically feasible but what is socially bearable and how we are really going to manage that kind of transition,” he said.
  • (12) In the meantime, the status quo has been made more bearable thanks to the architects of the peace process, who have spent billions to prop up the Palestinian government, create conditions of prosperity for decision-makers in Ramallah, and dissuade the population from confronting the occupying force.
  • (13) Well, all these things make a city bearable, but they don’t make a city valuable.” As the tech companies bid for contracts, Haque observed, the real target of their advertising is clear: “The people it really speaks to are the city managers who can say, ‘It wasn’t me who made the decision, it was the data.’” Of course, these speakers who rejected the corporate, top-down idea of the smart city were themselves demonstrating their own technological initiatives to make the city, well, smarter.
  • (14) The study says that Greece’s debt burden can be made more bearable by waiving payments until the economy has recovered and then giving Athens longer to pay.
  • (15) To us, their silence – the greater quiet of the whole house – tells a different and less bearable story.
  • (16) With temperatures at a pleasantly bearable -1C, some of the crew went on to the ice surrounding the ship in all directions and killed time by making igloos.
  • (17) Additional evidence from both experiments helped to rule out alternative explanations concerning drinking expectancies, alcohol's ability to enhance mood, and its ability to make the task more bearable.
  • (18) "The unfamiliar and beautiful play made things bearable that day, and the things it made bearable were another failed family – the first one was not my fault but all adopted children blame themselves," she said.
  • (19) Discovered a way to make mastectomy drains bearable?
  • (20) Overall, physiotherapy was well accepted since episodes of urinary incontinence were less frequent and therefore bearable; however, changes in patients' behavior play a role.

Endurable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being endured or borne; sufferable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Patients had improved sitting balance and endurance after surgery.
  • (2) There was no significant correlation between mitochondrial volume and number of SO fibers following endurance exercise training.
  • (3) Thus it appears that a portion of the adaptation to prolonged and intense endurance training that is responsible for the higher lactate threshold in the trained state persists for a long time (greater than 85 days) after training is stopped.
  • (4) Her novels have an enduring and universal appeal and she is recognised as one of the greatest writers in English literature.
  • (5) Respiratory muscle endurance at a given level of load was assessed from the time of exhaustion and from the time course of the change in the power spectrum (centroid frequency) of the diaphragm electromyogram (EMG).
  • (6) The investigation included the measurement of heart rate, bioelectrical muscle activity of the right and left M. biceps brachii and M. deltoideus and muscular endurance at 50% MVC.
  • (7) First, the decrement in the maximal heart rate response to exercise (known as "chronotropic incompetence") found in the sedentary MI rat was completely reversed by endurance training.
  • (8) Collins later thanked the condemned man for what he said was the respect he showed toward the execution team and for the way he endured the ordeal.
  • (9) There were discrete linear relationships between muscle temperature and isometric endurance associated with cycling at 60% and 80% VO2max.
  • (10) Endurance times with the vest were 300 min (175 W) and 242-300 min (315 W).
  • (11) Because the changes of the arterial blood lactate (Laa) and VE coincide we defined this point as the "point of the optimal ventilatory efficiency," identical with the "O2 endurance performance limit," later called "anaerobic threshold" by Wasserman et al.
  • (12) Zuma, who had endured booing during Mandela's memorial service at this stadium, received a rapturous welcome as he entered to the sound of a military drumroll trailed by young, flag-waving majorettes.
  • (13) In multiple regression analysis of endurance capacity, the standardized regression coefficient for smoking was -0.14 for distance covered in the 12-min run and 0.10 for 16-km running time, the latter despite the low prevalence (6.9%) of regular cigarette smokers among the joggers.
  • (14) I think that those who go there, to Isis, they hate Russia for the conditions they have to endure to live,” Nazarov’s brother says.
  • (15) These results indicate that the increase in glucose storage by acute exercise is not systematically associated with an improved glucose homeostasis, suggesting that other adaptive mechanisms also contribute to the improvement of insulin sensitivity in endurance athletes.
  • (16) Nine mild to moderate asthmatic adults (three males, six females) and six non-asthmatics (one male, five females) underwent endurance running training three times per week for five weeks, at self selected running speeds on a motorized treadmill.
  • (17) But to endure a cut of £100m just after becoming the mayor and a further £23m this year has been daunting.
  • (18) Further, to study the effect of endurance training on this response, animals from each age group underwent ten weeks of treadmill running at 75% of their functional capacity.
  • (19) Already much work has been done to re-establish enduring components for Labour's electoral success: clarity of strategy, effective rebuttal, and superior field organisation with our network of community organisers.
  • (20) As expected, preexercise values of non-trained subjects revealed a much higher insulin response to glucose, and a lower glucose storage and lipid oxidation compared to results obtained in endurance trained individuals.

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