Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of being dissolved, especially easily dissolved.
- adjective Possible to solve or explain.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being dissolved in a fluid; capable of solution; dissolvable.
- Figuratively, capable of being solved or resolved, as an algebraical equation; capable of being disentangled, cleared up, unfolded, or settled by explanation, as a doubt, question, etc.; solvable.
- Relaxed; loose; open.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Susceptible of being dissolved in a fluid; capable of solution.
- adjective Susceptible of being solved; ; susceptible of being disentangled, unraveled, or explained.
- adjective rare Relaxed; open or readily opened.
- adjective (Chem.) See under
Glass .
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- adjective
Able to bedissolved . - adjective Able to be
solved orexplained .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective susceptible of solution or of being solved or explained
- adjective (of a substance) capable of being dissolved in some solvent (usually water)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The loss represents the amount of _organic matter soluble in water_, the ash gives the quantity of _soluble inorganic matter_.
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In the soil, especially in contact with soluble alkaline bodies, as ammonia and lime, there is a progressive conversion of the _insoluble_ or _less soluble_ into
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In this respect this imaginary chemical ferment would differ entirely from those which we call soluble ferments, since diastase, emulsine, &c., may be easily isolated.
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"We've taken out what we call the soluble fibres and what's called resistant starch," he said.
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"We've taken out what we call the soluble fibres and what's called resistant starch," he said.
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If you want to try some dietary approaches, cook with flaxseed and add some foods high in soluble fiber — like good old oatmeal.
Your Health mailbag: Blood glucose, red-yeast rice, allergy shots 2010
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Starbucks has made a "breakthrough in soluble coffee," and it will be bringing it to a cafe near you.
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Starbucks has made a "breakthrough in soluble coffee," and it will be bringing it to a cafe near you.
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This new study highlights the importance of certain soluble proteins, called cytokines, in Alzheimer’s disease.
Reversal Of Alzheimer’s Symptoms Within Minutes In Human Study « Isegoria 2008
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It sometimes seems that a problem shuffled off is, from the point of view of those who claim to help, a problem solved - and that the one thing they will never do is admit that some problems are not at least in facile terms soluble, and allow even insolubility its full measure of acknowledgement.
Sick, Eiki Eiki, alone and yet trying to reach out, to get help: the better world Elizabeth McClung 2009
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