Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • That may be described; capable of description.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective That can be described; capable of description.

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  • adjective Capable of being described.

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  • adjective capable of being described

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Examples

  • Instead, he claims that "it is an error to reify God into an independent being" (TI 38), that "To regard God as some kind of describable or knowable object over against us would be at once a degradation of God and a serious category error" (TI 244), and that

    Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

  • SEO is great if you’re selling something that is easily describable, that is essentially the same from any seller, that people know they need, and that they know how to put into a search.

    Screw SEO | Johnny B. Truant 2009

  • SEO is great if you’re selling something that is easily describable, that is essentially the same from any seller, that people know they need, and that they know how to put into a search.

    2009 September | Johnny B. Truant 2009

  • It is kind of describable as the total quantity of monetary transactions per cycle slowing down (in practice and measured that would massively over state gdp).

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2009

  • But considering how many PMC members are on the roster, I doubt it will stop anything. -1 from me, until I see a limitation in scope that is "describable" ...

    general@incubator.apache.org Archives 2009

  • Instead, private interests have been subordinated to the national economic interest under a system most succinctly describable as state capitalism.

    Ian Fletcher: Japan, the Forgotten Protectionist Threat Ian Fletcher 2011

  • But he's also a son, brother, grandson, husband, father, uncle and Iraq War veteran — things that don't make him easily describable, Wahlberg says.

    Blue Bloods' Donnie Wahlberg: What Makes Danny Tick? 2010

  • The runner-up for the most offensive was, I think, Doritos “fetish” ad is not even quite describable in a family newspaper.

    Those Super Bowl commercials Stephen L. Carter 2011

  • You find the same kind of imagery all through the OT prophets when they are describable great upheavals.

    An Amazing First Century 2009

  • Instead, private interests have been subordinated to the national economic interest under a system most succinctly describable as state capitalism.

    Ian Fletcher: Japan, the Forgotten Protectionist Threat Ian Fletcher 2011

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