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  • adjective Capable of being entered.

Etymologies

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enter +‎ -able

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Examples

  • Make sure all your sofas and chairs can be sat on ( "enterable", in Inform parlance; other languages use other techniques), even if you regard them only as scenery.

    Emily Short's Interactive Fiction 2008

  • 'Not enough alcohol' is the phrase that comes to mind .... and lets go out there and say Yes, there is enough alcohol, I imagine ole limp one wouldn't be up for the task after the amount of beverage it would take to make her look enterable. angdesj

    Explain this one in your browser history, fellas Tyler 2009

  • "Most plant material is enterable," Aley said, in three cases:

    Going abroad? Avoid bringing back unintended souvenirs. 2010

  • Coupled with a desire to keep a series enterable at any point, however, and all too often the combination results in what I call The Self-Introduction of Doom.

    On the Self-Introduction of Doom | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2009

  • The report found that in 2004 a total of 1,305 "same day" voters gave information that was declared "un-enterable" or invalid by election officials.

    Milwaukee Puts a Vote-Fraud Cop Out of Business 2008

  • A lottery for university places, freely enterable by all 16 year olds, would bring rapid improvements in numeracy, literacy and social skills acquisition in all schools.

    Osborne: Tories Will Prevent New Grammar Schools From Opening 2007

  • It's called HandSort, and it adds a Sort column to the entry listing screen, with an enterable numeric field next to each entry, that lets you do "Netflix-queue-style" sorting of the entries displayed.

    Outlining a Blog - Anil Dash 2006

  • Although water-filled caverns deep underground were continuing to increase in size, most enterable caves near the surface were no longer growing larger.

    The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990

  • Joanna watched its fury from the secrecy of a small boudoir attached to Princess Pellicida's rooms in the north wing of the Imperial Palace, a hidden love nest furnished for some forgotten princely mistress of the last generation and enterable only through a hinged wall panel near the head of Pella's bed.

    The Silicon Mage Hambly, Barbara 1988

  • The other half, beyond its impermeable wall, was to be left airless, enterable only by someone in a spacesuit through a simple hatch in its side.

    The Far Call Dickson, Gordon R 1978

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