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UK
/nˈævɪɡəbəl/
]
[ US /ˈnævəɡəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈnævəɡəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
able to be sailed on or through safely
navigable waters
a navigable channel
How To Use navigable In A Sentence
- Master Thorne, in the sixteenth century, expressed the resolute spirit of that energy in a phrase: "There is no land uninhabitable, nor sea innavigable"; and in every part of the globe this British spirit has applied itself to many a land that looked hopeless at first, and has frequently found it to be one: Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia
- The pub with the most atmosphere is tiny Turf Tavern, which you get to by following two long, creepy, almost unnavigable alleys off a winding back street.
- This was a side effect of the Industrial Revolution; many of our rivers were canalised and made navigable during the C19th which stuffed it all up with weirs and locks and pollution.
- Trapped, they chose to paddle three miles down the coast to Waimea, where they hoped the deep-water bay would provide a navigable channel.
- It may be the country's longest river, but it's also practically unnavigable. Times, Sunday Times
- The nearest paved road is an hour away; in winter, the maze of rutted dirt truck trails hereabouts is nearly unnavigable.
- In Newcastle the Hunter River is navigable by what I will call 60-mile colliers right up to Hexham and those colliers used to carry coal from Hexham down to Sydney.
- These are the two main navigable waterways leading to ports in Iraq.
- However it appears to the Environment Agency that the ancient navigable status of the Thames at Hedsor has never been extinguished by statute or by any other competent authority.
- The short films, no longer an endangered species, are archived on an easily navigable Web site.