What's the difference between passable and tolerable?

Passable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being passed, traveled, navigated, traversed, penetrated, or the like; as, the roads are not passable; the stream is passablein boats.
  • (a.) Capable of being freely circulated or disseminated; acceptable; generally receivable; current.
  • (a.) Such as may be allowed to pass without serious objection; tolerable; admissable; moderate; mediocre.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These results were compared with perceptual judgments of "passability" under static and moving viewing conditions.
  • (2) After computing admission rates by district per 1000 population, these were plotted against distance from the hospital by the only passable roads.
  • (3) In 40.9% the therapeutic results are satisfactory with normalization of blood pressure, whereas in 27.1%, are only passable.
  • (4) Of 28 renal units 25 (89%) were rendered free of stones or had passable calculi of less than 3 mm.
  • (5) Out of the root canals which were apically not passable and coronally closed the first traces of the instilled 5% hydrogen peroxide appeared after 14 min 45 sec on the root surface.
  • (6) Failures were due to upward dislodgement of the stone in 5 cases, to grasp or disintegrate the stone in 2, perforation of the ureter in 2, bleeding from the ureteral wall in 2 cases, to reintroduce guidewire in the ureter and to non-passable stricture below the stone in 1 case each.
  • (7) Out of the patients who underwent EPCN before SWL 13% were stone free and without drainage at discharge, 77% had passable stone fragments at discharge and drainage has been taken out at 15-30 days check up, 10% had unbroken stone and underwent with drainage to ureterolithotripsy.
  • (8) Even presented with a more than passable opportunity to snatch a point at the death, when Daniel Sturridge played a pass over the Southampton defence to allow Raheem Sterling to run clear on goal, the substitute came up with a wretched first touch to practically pass the ball to Artur Boruc.
  • (9) Photograph: PR company handout Creatively, it’s all a bit uninspiring, but there are passable moments.
  • (10) At the second hearing, the stern judge who had been doing a passable impression of Anne Robinson for much of the hearing appeared visibly troubled by Harris's emotional plea to be set free.She told the translator to tell Harris to "be calm", and asked if she would like a break in proceedings to compose herself.
  • (11) The cumulative analysis within 10 years after operations have shown 27% of endarectomized arteries to remain passable.
  • (12) With this form of pathology 68% of arteries are found to be passable within 10 postoperative years.
  • (13) In addition, the CSA was filtratable (0.45 mu), dialyzable, and passable through an Amicon PM10 filter, which indicated a molecular weight less than 10,000.
  • (14) Seventy percent of the patients with renal stones and 95% of those with ureteral stones were stone-free over the one-month follow-up, while about 15% had small and asymptomatic fragments believed to be passable spontaneously.
  • (15) At more increasing mean temperature rises 0.49 degrees C and 0.58 degrees C, increasing pyrogenic and decreasing 'passable' qualifications were obtained.
  • (16) The Howards method of anastomosis was used with prolene thread under fourfold magnification along with a spermiogram and a test of passability of the sperm duct.
  • (17) We have five special engineering trains out checking that lines are passable, and in the Highlands we have a helicopter out inspecting lines.
  • (18) The relatively well documented transcellular route is passable for compounds with a low molecular mass (up to about 2000 Da) and sufficient lipid as well as water solubility.
  • (19) Being a good dad and being a passable, decent husband is something that weighs on me."
  • (20) France has long claimed Rwanda as part of its francophone fold even though there is only one language common to all citizens of the tiny central African nation — the indigenous Kinyarwanda — and only a minority of the population speak passable French.

Tolerable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being borne or endured; supportable, either physically or mentally.
  • (a.) Moderately good or agreeable; not contemptible; not very excellent or pleasing, but such as can be borne or received without disgust, resentment, or opposition; passable; as, a tolerable administration; a tolerable entertainment; a tolerable translation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) within 12 h of birth followed by similar injections every day for 10 consecutive days and then every second day for a further 8 weeks, with mycoplasma broth medium (tolerogen), to induce immune tolerance.
  • (2) No differences between the two substances were observed with respect to side effects and general tolerability.
  • (3) This treatment is usually well tolerated but not devoid of systemic effects.
  • (4) Well tolerated from the clinical and laboratory points of view, it proved remarkably effective.
  • (5) To estimate the age of onset of these differences, and to assess their relationship to abdominal and gluteal adipocyte size, we measured adiposity, adipocyte size, and glucose and insulin concentrations during a glucose tolerance test in lean (less than 20% body fat), prepubertal children from each race.
  • (6) Although temazepam was effective for maintaining sleep with short-term use, there was rapid development of tolerance for this effect with intermediate-term use.
  • (7) testosterone, fentanyl, nicotine) may ultimately be administered in this way, important questions pertaining to pharmacology (tolerance), toxicity (irritation, sensitisation) and dose sufficiency (penetration enhancement) remain.
  • (8) There were no biochemical or haematological abnormalities caused by prazosin but on continued therapy 16 patients developed tolerance to its effect.
  • (9) Characerization of further parameters such as relative susceptibility to tolerance induction and relative degree of specificity was not possible with the use of KLH as the antigen.
  • (10) Because of these different direct and indirect actions, a sudden cessation of sinus node activity or sudden AV block may result in the diseased heart in a prolonged and even fatal cardiac standstill, especially if the tolerance to ischemia of other organs (notably the brain) is decreased.
  • (11) Efficacy and tolerability of perorally administered desmopressin were evaluated in 12 adult patients suffering from central diabetes insipidus.
  • (12) This suggests that both blood transfusion and allograft are required for IL2 suppression and that this suppression may be related to the heart tolerance.
  • (13) At present, ACE inhibitors are preferred because they are usually better tolerated than conventional vasodilators and are clinically more effective.
  • (14) Changes in pain tolerance after administration of differently labelled placebos were studied by measuring the reaction time after a cold stimulus.
  • (15) TK1 showed the most restricted substrate specificity but tolerated 3'-modifications of the sugar ring and some 5-substitutions of the pyrimidine ring.
  • (16) Provided that adequate reflection is given and the appropriate moment chosen, it is well tolerated and provides all the necessary information.
  • (17) After large bowel removal, there was impaired glucose tolerance and attenuated plasma insulin secretion.
  • (18) Cardiac pump function is not affected, even in patients with ventricular dysfunction or heart failure, in whom chronic oral administration of the drug is well tolerated.
  • (19) These agents have been well-tolerated and generally produce a high incidence of sustained improvements in neutrophil counts and marrow morphology, although hemoglobin and platelet counts have generally not been altered.
  • (20) The above treatment is tolerated well and no serious side effects have been observed.