tolerate vs stand for

tolerate and stand for both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
tolerate	No	No	Yes	No
stand for	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, stand for is a hyponym of tolerate; that is, stand for is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than tolerate:

Other hyponyms of tolerate include accept, live with, swallow, hold still for, bear up, take lying down, take a joke, sit out, pay.

tolerate (verb)	stand for (verb)
put up with something or somebody unpleasant	tolerate or bear
allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting	denote or connote
have a tolerance for a poison or strong drug or pathogen or environmental condition	express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol
recognize and respect (rights and beliefs of others)	take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to