operable

[ US /ˈɑpɝəbəɫ/ ]
[ UK /ˈɒpəɹəbə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. fit or ready for use or service
    the lawnmower is a bit rusty but still usable
    an operational aircraft
    the dishwasher is now in working order
    the toaster was still functional even after being dropped
  2. capable of being treated by surgical operation
    an operable cancer
  3. usable for a specific purpose
    a practicable solution
    an operable plan
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How To Use operable In A Sentence

  • It may also have a role in evaluation and surveillance of patients with inoperable carcinomas.
  • The Doctrine of pre-emption becomes inoperable without unimpeachable intelligence accepted by all as the coin of the realm.
  • Features of the CH-53K helicopter include: a joint interoperable glass cockpit; fly-by-wire flight controls; fourth generation rotor blades with anhedral tips; a low-maintenance elastomeric rotor head; upgraded engines; a locking cargo rail system; external cargo handling improvements; survivability enhancements; and reduced operation and support costs. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
  • For example, if D hires a car to P and then removes the rotor arm from it rendering it inoperable, he may be guilty of criminal damage.
  • When the presumption is not displaced, there is no need for the trial judge to address the issue of whether the vehicle is operable or immovable and/or the issue of dangerousness.
  • On the 6th week, he had a check-up and the doctor said it was unbelievable, but the cancer had shrunken, and was now operable, and that they would take out one lung.
  • They received follow-up data from the Greater Glasgow Health Board Audit of operable breast cancers.
  • Fortunately both were operable, but the frequency of such illnesses is much higher in survivors of the A-bomb.
  • Within five years of the diagnosis of operable breast cancer, the disease recurs in up to one third of women.
  • He said that only 75 percent of the existing 800 water hydrants located near high-rises and other public facilities were operable.
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