Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being commanded.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being commanded.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
commanded .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The only way to make the cloud -- and social media -- services a trustable home for data is to make this data open and "commandable" by the owner of this data.
LXer Linux News 2009
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Todd says that the White House is attempting to get "command and control" over a situation that's substantively not too eminently commandable or controllable.
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Todd says that the White House is attempting to get "command and control" over a situation that's substantively not too eminently commandable or controllable.
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It's commandable that you don't want "to spoil the cover image with any other blurb", but I wouldn't mind to do an exception by putting the names Gerry Embleton and Willie Patterson somewhere in there.
Comic Cuts Steve 2009
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Samples of lunar surface material have been brought back to the earth for laboratory study by our Apollo spacecraft and by unmanned, commandable spacecraft of the Soviet Union.
Van Allen's Wisdom Beach Blogger 2006
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Rob, your courage is very commandable by Mark Sashine on Saturday, Jul 29, 2006 at 4: 26: 28 PM
Time for Tough Love for Israel from America and American Jews 2006
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There, of course, remain many matters of deep scientific interest on Mars but these matters can be addressed systematically--at much less cost and without risk to human life--by automated, commandable spacecraft, surface rovers, and sample return-to-earth missions.
Van Allen's Wisdom Beach Blogger 2006
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Despite the great successes and future promise of automated, commandable, unmanned spacecraft in providing vital human services and scientific advances, the President and Congress persist in giving primary emphasis to the misty-eyed concept that the manifest destiny of mankind is to live and work in space.
Van Allen's Wisdom Beach Blogger 2006
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"This means it's commandable," a JPL spokeswoman told SpaceDaily.
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Meier (1987) reported from the highlands of Peru that the wooden plow represents a commandable technique, but it breaks quicker and appropriate wood is scarce.
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