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UK
/kəlˈæpsəbəl/
]
[ US /kəˈɫæpsəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /kəˈɫæpsəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
capable of collapsing or being collapsed
a collapsible boat
How To Use collapsible In A Sentence
- The tote bags and collapsible crates can be stored flat and take up minimal space when they are not being used.
- Also included is our custom made collapsible brass and wood ramrod that tucks neatly into the fore-end when not in use and a wrench for easy removal of the breech plug for both safety and easy cleaning.
- However, it was the Titanic disaster that sounded the death knell for his collapsible armada with the introduction, paradoxically, of strict new lifeboat regulations.
- This invention is a woodcutting saw, or bucksaw, which is collapsible and foldable into a compact portable unit.
- They could install collapsible bollards in the doorway which could be raised at night, but roller shutters - absolutely not.
- And some of them are already interchangeable - exempli gratia, convener-convenor; collapsable-collapsible. Times, Sunday Times
- Researchers studying flow in collapsible tubes have examined the mechanics of how blood gets pumped all the way up a giraffe's neck to its brain.
- A plainclothes security agent with a flashlight beats the tall grass between the sidewalk and the street with a thin collapsible rod, looking for wires or a glint of metal. Grand Illusions
- Listen to a clip from La Gaieté, a Swiss Alphorn quartet Edward Taylor/The Wall Street Journal Eliana Burki, a 25-year-old jazz musician with a pierced nose from Solothurn, Switzerland, likes to play funky, fast jazz tunes on her telescopic, collapsible carbon-fiber alphorn. Rocking the Alphorn
- That latitude is provided in the form of collapsible air bags, called ballonets, inside the helium envelope.