different between tolerant vs aggressive

English

Etymology

From Old French tolerant, from Latin tolerans, present participle of toler? (“endure”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?l???nt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?t??l???nt/

Adjective

tolerant (comparative more tolerant, superlative most tolerant)

1. tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept something

2. tending to withstand or survive

   These plants are tolerant of drought and sunlight.

Antonyms

• intolerant

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• tolerant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• tolerant in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• tolerant at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Tarleton

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Latin tolerans.

Adjective

tolerant (masculine and feminine plural tolerants)

1. tolerant

   Antonym: intolerant

Related terms

• tolerància
• tolerar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

tolerant

1. present participle of tolerar

Further reading

• “tolerant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tolerant” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “tolerant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tolerant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

tolerant (comparative toleranter, superlative tolerantst)

1. tolerant

Inflection

Related terms

• tolerantie
• tolereren

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: toleran

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tol???ant/
• Rhymes: -ant

Adjective

tolerant (comparative toleranter, superlative am tolerantesten)

1. tolerant

Declension

Further reading

• “tolerant” in Duden online

Latin

Verb

tolerant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of toler?  "they bear, they endure, they tolerate"

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French tolérant

Adjective

tolerant (neuter singular tolerant, definite singular and plural tolerante)

1. tolerant

References

• “tolerant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French tolérant

Adjective

tolerant (neuter singular tolerant, definite singular and plural tolerante)

1. tolerant

References

• “tolerant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From French tolérant.

Adjective

tolerant m or n (feminine singular tolerant?, masculine plural toleran?i, feminine and neuter plural tolerante)

1. tolerant

Declension

Related terms

• toleran??

Swedish

Adjective

tolerant (comparative tolerantare, superlative tolerantast)

1. tolerant

Declension

Antonyms

• intolerant

Related terms

• tolerans

References

• tolerant in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tolerant in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tolerant in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

English

Etymology

From aggress +? -ive. Compare with French agressif.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?????s.?v/
• Rhymes: -?s?v

Adjective

aggressive (comparative more aggressive, superlative most aggressive)

1. Characterized by aggression; unjustly attacking; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking or arguing.

   an aggressive policy, war, person, nation

   • 2011, Judith S. Weis, Do Fish Sleep?, Rutgers University Press (?ISBN), page 63:

     When a new aggressive fish is added to an aquarium with an already-established, territorial fish, the established fish will probably fight to protect its territory (the whole tank).

2. (programming) Of heuristics, source code optimization techniques, etc.: exploiting every opportunity to be applied.
   • 1996, Tibor Gyimothy, Compiler Construction: 6th International Conference, CC '96, Linköping, Sweden, April 24 - 26, 1996. Proceedings, Volume 6, Springer ?ISBN, page 59

     This paper describes how aggressive loop unrolling is done in a retargetable optimizing compiler.

   • 2001, Paul Feautrier (edited by Santosh Pande and Dharma P. Agrawal), Compiler Optimizations for Scalable Parallel Systems, Springer ?ISBN, page 173

     Since the most aggressive type of optimization a program can be subjected to is parallelization, understanding a program before attempting to parallelize it is a very important step.

   • 2002, Y. N. Srikant, Priti Shankar, The Compiler Design Handbook: Optimizations and Machine Code Generation, CRC Press ?ISBN, page 465

     However, aggressive compiler techniques such as loop unrolling, promoting of subscripted array variables into registers (especially in of subscripted array variables into registers (especially in loops) and interprocedural optimizations create heavy register pressure and it is still quite important to do a good job of register allocation.

   • 2002, Shpeisman, T. ; Lueh, G.-Y. ; Adl-Tabatabai, A.-R., PACT 2002: 2002 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques : proceedings : 22-25 September, 2002, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, IEEE Computer Society Press ?ISBN, page 249

     The Itanium processor is an example of an Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) architecture and thus relies on aggressive and expensive compiler optimizations for performance.

   • 2003, Susanna Pelagatti (edited by Fethi Rabhi and Sergei Gorlatch), Patterns and Skeletons for Parallel and Distributed Computing, Springer ?ISBN, page 182

     This sensibly eases the programmer task and allows for more aggressive optimisations of the global program structure.

   • 2011, Wen-mei W. Hwu, GPU Computing Gems Jade Edition, Elsevier ?ISBN, page 11

     The CUDA C code for the GPU, as well as the C and inline assembly code for the CPU, were highly optimized and aggressive compiler optimizations (-O4) were turned on.

3. (pathology, of a tumour or disease) That spreads quickly or extensively; virulent; malignant.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:combative

Antonyms

• passive

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• aggressive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• aggressive in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

German

Adjective

aggressive

1. inflection of aggressiv:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

aggressive f pl

1. feminine plural of aggressivo

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

aggressive

1. definite singular of aggressiv
2. plural of aggressiv

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

aggressive

1. definite singular of aggressiv
2. plural of aggressiv

Swedish

Adjective

aggressive

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of aggressiv.