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US
/ˈɑpɝəbəɫ/
]
[ UK /ˈɒpəɹəbəl/ ]
[ UK /ˈɒpəɹəbəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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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 -
capable of being treated by surgical operation
an operable cancer -
usable for a specific purpose
a practicable solution
an operable plan
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.